Colina — Restaurant in Thanet

Good and .....less so. We are two fanatical foodies and as I pass 2050 reviews on tripadvisorI suggest I have quite a good understand of success criteria. As this was hailed on one website as a hot newcomer it seemed sensible to try it! It's about a 30 cover restaurant which also doubles as the reception for the hotel too!

The menu is quite short with moderate variety. Must confess few of the starters spoke to me! We ordered soused bream which was beautifully presented and lightly flavouring. Piri piri mussels were very nice as was the belly pork, great flavour in the pork!

The oxtail had to be replaced as it had cheese on it, despite it not mentioning it on the menu. It was ok, pasta was well prepared and presented but the oxtail can handle lots of flavour, but didn't display it.

We chose three desserts between us. The crema was very grainy and watery and really had little flavour. The blood orange and merangue pie was nice but incredibly sweet. The final dessert was a replacement almond gellato for the Pistacho (sadly) which frankly was reasonably devoid of flavour, the hint of almond came mainly from the added flakes.

Toilet clean but only one plus one for disabled customers. Waiter was nice but no checking if we had any questions re the menu. As we said to the waiter our greatest criticism.was reserved for the decades old local village hall stackable wooden chairs which were indescribably uncomfortable. To be fair he did accept that the two things we highlighted the Crema and the chairs were the two things most complained about. Will be more enthusiastic when this month old restaurant sorts out the wrinkles for...

Apparently the name of the restaurant means "hill" in Portuguese/Spanish. It is, in fact, on a hill.

Great atmosphere, cozy, and solid sound dampening in the room. It was extra quiet on a Monday evening.

The food was bomb, especially the peach salad with pomegranate, feta, pecans and yuzu dressing. One of us literally said, “okay now that is the best salad I’ve ever had.” And she’s been to a lot of places. For £9.25, that salad is unreal value. The burrata with pesto was also bomb. We love a limited menu.

I had the Lamb Merguez, which apparently is lamb sausage. Combined with a chickpea salad and minted yoghurt, it was delicious...super savoury.

We were a group of six so tried most of the mains. There were rave reviews all around. No one spoke up about their meal because they didn’t want to have to share.

For dessert we had ice cream, chocolate & cherry. Delicious. Great spot, would...

We went in for lunch on a Tuesday. We were told service would take 20 minutes despite ordering club sandwiches (£15) and a plate of pasta. After 30 minutes the server shared that they’d had a problem defrosting (!) bread and that our sandwiches were on burger buns instead… food came out 40 minutes after we were seated. The burger buns weren’t toasted. Very peculiar for a restaurant at this price point. A £15 sandwich needs to be amazing. These were extremely average sandwiches. The friend that had pasta said was good. No concessions were offered, I didn’t ask. I live in Margate but probably...