Rekondo — Restaurant in San Sebastián

Underwhelming and disappointed.

When we came to Redondo more than 15 years ago, we left the place with a great feeling. Because of that, we wanted to remember that experience and decided to book a table for a Friday night. The interior of the restaurant has changed significantly from the last time; however, this has been a change for the better, with great lighting and overall decoration. We thought that we were set up for another great dinner. However, this was the only positive thing we could find from the entire experience.

We ordered "Vegetable with Truffle" as an entree and the meal came full of shaved black truffle all over the plate. For anyone that has tasted truffle before, you would expect it to be very aromatic and would overpower anything else in the plate. However, there was no taste of the truffle. We guess that it was frozen truffle and not fresh truffle as we would've expected. For such a renowned and historic restaurant that is known for high product quality, this was very underwhelming.

We also ordered "Fish Soup"'; this dish has an emotional attachment to us since we had back when we came for the first time and made us fall in love with the place. Very different to what we had back them in then or tasted in other restaurants. We could barely taste the fish, since it was mostly filled with bread and onion.

On the other had, we had a small salad called "Salpicon de Marisco"'; different sea food with greens. We did not understand the addition of fruits such as strawberries, sweet melon and orange. It was overshadowing the rest of the ingredients in the plate.

Last but not least, we ordered "Rodaballo"; this was outside of the menu and the waiter recommended it. It was good, although nothing special, but it came with literally 6 small potatoes as a side dish. Once again, we would expect more from such a renowned restaurant.

Overall, as mentioned in the beginning, we left the restaurant underwhelmed and disappointed. We decided to give two starts for the new interior which makes the place...

So disappointing. Booked this as a treat for us, but it was probably one of our least favourite experiences. Unfortunately we were not able to sit of the beautiful terrace due to the weather, so sat inside. The table was wobbly and had to be fix with a folded piece of cardboard -not a good start when you're paying over 100 euros per person!

I got the white beans and mussels to start -which were alright -but nothing to write home about. My husband got the Iberian ham starter, which was just a load of ham on a plate -there was no imagination to the plate -not sauce or accompaniments or even a garnish.

For main, I got the kokotxas as it was a local speciality. There was not really any flavour to the dish. My husband had the venision, which he said was nice, but not exceptional.

The best part for the meal, was the dessert -the millefeuille with passion fruit sorbet was delicous and the chocolate coulant and apricot icecream also very good.

The staff were not warm or friendly and did not check on us to see if we needed anything. There was a lot of noise from the counter where they were cutting the meat. We had to ask twice to be brought the bill.

In summary, the food was average considering the price and the staff and atmosphere did not make us feel welcome. It was really disappointing as we had high expectations for a...

Phenomenal dinner!

We have been wanting to try this restaurant for the last few visits to Donostia-San Sebastian ("DSS") and are so glad we were finally able to make the time to finally try them.

First off the restaurant is a nice mix of both locals and visitors although even the visitors all seemed to be regular visitors, so it gave the restaurant a more authentic vibe.

Second, every seating area, from the interior dining rooms to the outdoor seating is all very put together and comfortable.

Third, the food was amazing and exceeded our expectations, even with our hotel telling us this is the best restaurant in DSS. It was all excellently prepared and plated and all of it was delicious.

They also have an incredible wine menu although this was our first night back in town so we went with the local txakolina wine. We also ordered a couple different glasses of port wine and also saw they had our favorite Madeira wine - Barbieto.

Finally, and the most important thing to us, the staff was excellent. They were professional without being stuffy and took amazing care of us.

We cannot wait to visit again during future...