El Ocho Y Medio — Restaurant in Valencia

Nice location, but the staff was not friendly, and the taste of the paella was way below average.

Without ordering bread, they placed hard bread on our table, which no one wanted to eat as we did not order it and it was as stiff as a rock. It was placed on our bill, and we asked them to remove it because we never ordered the bread and did not eat it either.

They seemed quite annoyed about this and removed the bread from the bill but instead added to the bill that we needed to pay for the napkins and tablecloth. They threw the bill on the table as if they did not care, which was quite rude for our guests to experience.

We also felt pressured by the staff to leave the restaurant as they seemed more interested in mass production and having the table available for the next guests.

We live in Valencia and have never had such an experience, and we were never charged (on the 2nd bill) to use their napkins and tablecloth.

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Biggest tourist trap ever! We didn't leave only because we were super tired and starving. We sat at a table, after half an hour they brought us a sad slice if bread that we didn't ask for. No butter or oil next to it. We didn't touch it but it came out these 2 slices were charged 5 euros. They didn't bring a menu so we ordered by memory from the entrance board. We had a paella for 2 which arrived after 1 hour! The content of the huge pan was barely enough for one person. For that and one beer we had to pay 50 euros. Theft! The waiter didn't know any word in English and had super dirty hands, black under his nails. When the food finally arrived we were disturbed twice. Once because they needed one of our chairs and then because the wanted to completely move us with the table and everything, which we refused. I am sorry we didn't left. Do yourself a favor and...

Absolutely atrocious !!! We have been visiting Valencia, twice a year, for the last three years. In all that time, we have enjoyed a lot of incredible food & some OK, passable dishes. However, we have never had such a negative experience in any restaurant or bar in all of our experience. The service was unbelievably bad ( greeted by a waiter who promised us "the earth" & then vanished for half an hour, whilst we waited for a menu), the food we ordered was practically inedible (also waited a further 3o minutes after we ordered, to eventually be told that the fried fish we had requested, wasn't available), and finally incredibly overpriced; €90 for 4 beers, a soft drink & 5 tapas dishes. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here !!! Awful tourist trap of the worst possible kind. Should be shut down completely, as soon as...