Chiringuito La Macarena — Restaurant in Torremolinos

Do not eat here! They are scammers. Will put bread and olives on the table without you asking and then will charge for these at the end! Drinks took 40 mins to come to us. Had to ask twice where they were. My partners pasta arrived luke warm. Mine came 20 mins after his ( had to ask the waiter if mine was coming) so we couldn’t eat together. Then had to ask 3 times for the bill. I asked to speak to the manager and said we weren’t happy with the service. My partner asked her to take the charge off for the bread we didn’t ask for and she refused. When I asked for money to be taken off our bill for the terrible service, she said ‘but did you eat the food’ and I replied ‘yes some’. She then just started shouting over us. There was no apology or any money taken off for our terrible experience. In the end my partner just paid as he was so embarrassed that she was shouting over me. Genuinely the worst customer experience. She needs customer service training. You can’t speak to customers like that. If she had apologised then it wouldn’t have been so bad. In the UK, we wouldn’t at-least got an apology and maybe some money off of the bill. They are complete scammers. She said other customers understood that it was busy. A busy restaurant is not excuse for poor...

I rarely write reviews, especially negative ones, however we had a really horrible experience at this place. There were 5 of us and we ordered 5 dishes; the waiter repeated our order to make sure he got everything. 3 of the dishes finally came after about 40 minutes (even though the restaurant was fully empty at that point). One of the dishes we ordered was fried fish and fries, however they only delivered the fries. We asked them to check on the two remaining dishes and the waiter acted confused and was unhelpful and downright rude. When we asked about one of the dishes he simply told us that’s not what we ordered multiple times and looked really annoyed when I wouldn’t admit to the “mistake”. After that we had to ask three different waiters about the fried fish and it took another hour or so for them to finally prepare it. We spent almost 3 hours at the restaurant. I have lots of sympathy and appreciation for all waiters because I know that it is a demanding job and I rarely ever complain; but this was unacceptable on their part. Overall, what we’d hoped would be a pleasant dinner on the beach turned into a draining experience, so if you’re thinking about going to this place I’d think twice… The food itself was decent but nothing worth 3...

Maybe the grilled fish is good, but for something else look further...

When we walked by and where looking on the menu, some friendly guy asked us to go inside. "Good fish, good pizza's".

For the first time we said no, but we came back and wanted to give it a chance. It was relative cheap... And so it tasted!

We both don't like fish, but they had some other dishes on the menu (like chicken/pork schnitzel, pizza's, pastas, meatballs with tomato sauce and more).

Biggest mistake I've ever made! Seems like 90% (or more) of the not-fish products, are just microwave meals. And the fries are just too hard and not tasteful. Never had so bad food in a long time!

Maybe if you are liking fish, this place is good... But if you want to eat something else, just choose some...