Restaurante | Sabbia by Gabbeach

We stopped in the outside terrace to have a cocktail around 6:30 pm on a Monday. We waited at the hostess station for someone to seat us, but realized after asking a male waiter that we could just sit at one of the empty table outside. We sat at one of the two empty tables. It was dirty from the previous customer. We sat and waited for 15 minutes for the young female waitress to help us. It was busy with a large table near us, but she never made eye contact or addressed us. We didn’t say anything because she seemed very stressed out. After 15 minutes I caught her eye, and she told me : “un momento.” A few minutes later she appeared and we ordered two beers. About 5 minutes later, the male waiter brought over two bottles of beer. No glasses, no wiping the table. We had a few sips of our beer, and the waitress came over and asked if we’d like to charge our beers. She had our receipt and her charge machine. I said, “ un momento.” The male waiter came over and asked if we wanted to charge or pay cash. I said that we had just started our beer that took 20 minutes to get, so we were going to enjoy it and then we would pay. He told us that the policy was to get drinks and pay, but since we had to wait so long, he would make an exception. The problem with his explanation is we watched the large party next to us hunt down the waitress to pay her. We would never feel right about going to this restaurant with our friends and family. We own property in Spain and have always admired the Spanish for their graciousness.