Àrea de Servei l'Hospitalet de l'Infant — Restaurant in Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant

We made a pit stop here on our drive from Barcelona to Valencia.

It was very busy and buzzing but we were still easily able to find a seat in the restaurant. It is a counter, buffet style service, with a number of hot dishes available.

I had the lamb, my daughter had a steak and my wife Paella. All the meals were delicious and of a quality one would be pleased to receive in a top restaurant.

One word of warning, we pulled in here about 13:10. The queue for the ladies toilets was quite long, luckily my wife and daughter were not busting to go as the wait was around 10 minutes. Same with fuel, there are just a couple of pumps, each with two sets of hoses to allow a car to fill from the left or right simultaneously.

Although admittedly the 30 plus minutes we had to wait to get to the pumps was due to two Karen and Donald entitled Dutch camper van owners. Whose really bad parking blocked the access to use all but one side of the pumps. Once they had filled up what appeared to be the entire occupants of the two motorhomes piled into the shop for 15 minutes. The drivers of two of the cars sitting either side of us, eventually got out and went in to the shop, after these two Spanish gentlemen (one accompanied by his wife or girlfriend) had finished a short but loud verbal exchange with the Dutch, in which the serving attendant seemed to get involved the driver emerged and moved the camper vans...

Unfortunately, there was an awful smell coming from the restrooms that invaded the whole inside area. One of the coffee machines was not working, and the other had a long wait line. The person up front seemed to have some issues with it. So we decided to go to the till, but we were told to get in the lunch line if we wanted coffee. So we got in line, we thought at least the coffee would be good. Wrong! We asked for an expresso and an Americano. The expresso was filled to the rim, and my Americano overflowed while the young lady was tending to other customers. When she got back to it, she spilled some more out handed it to me...

American tourist here on a bus trip, currently going from Barcelona to Valencia.

Our bus stopped here and I was thrilled to be able to get a cafe con leche de avena, as a vegan I don’t always have this luxury, and the coffee was great.

Bathrooms were clean and everything functioned well.

Rest areas can be pretty rough and shady, and you just have to live with it, they have a captive customer base. So it’s nice to hit one that is really making an effort to be a nice place.

I’ll add that my wife got a soda and a pastry for the display case and was happy with that as...