La Taberna del Puerto

Ah this is a hard one to grade. If I could, l’d give them 2.5. It’s safe to say that I really didn’t enjoy my lunch here, and that I wished I ate somewhere else. So maybe it should be a 2. But, they clawed back some points towards the end… Hmmm…
To summarise the experience:
— It’s a gorgeous looking place, right on the marina. Fancy looking table cloths, nicely put together menu, absolutely packed. It seems like a classy kinda joint.
— This drew us in immediately. We then had to stand for a few minutes in the entrance until someone approached us, which a young scared looking lad finally did, not knowing what he should do. We asked if we could sit, to which he pointed us to a table. Grand. Sat down. Waited. Waited some more. There is genuinely nothing that ticks me off more than not being approached by staff when first coming into a restaurant. We must have been there for a good five minutes til someone finally dropped a menu over. THey ran off again then, no drinks, no hello, nothing. Grrr. Off to a bad start.
— Que lots more service blunders. Forgotten course of starters. Zero smiles. No checking if we are ok at any stage, no changed cutlery, napkins etc through courses.
— Then the food. Some of it was nice some of it was not good at all. For my starter, I got a stacked vege & goats cheese creation. That was nice, but then there was this radioactive green syrup poured all over it that was just weird. It looked like that syrup the ice cream man pours on your 99. I don’t want it on my veg! We both got cod, which tasted sooooo salty I can’t even tell you. We called the waitress over and she explained that it wasn’t fresh fish. IT WASNT FRESH FISH. In a fish restaurant. On a marina. No. No. No. All sorts of wrong. Sent it back and got some fresh fish which was delish. The damage had been done; it had put a bad taste in our mouths, both literally and figuratively.
To be honest, all the mistakes were rectified, and they seemed like nice people working there. But there were just too many of them (the mistakes not the people. Could have done with a few more of them…), and we got off on the wrong foot in the first place, which would have been hard to rectify in the best of times. But this my friends, was not the best of times. Nor was it the worst… but it was less than mediocre. Such mediocre times. Sigh…

Very nice ambiance on the marina. Excellent fresh fish. Broad menu. Great desserts. Don’t miss the profiteroles or the cappuccino

Liegt direkt am sportlichen, eleganten Yachthafen Puerto Caleros. Übliche, schöné Terasse. Authentische, freundliche Bedienung, schnell oder langsam (genau, wie man es vorher sagt). Sehr gute, einheimische und flinke Küche.
Unbedingt den Fisch des Tages probieren, fangfrischer Fisch sehr lecker nach Wunsch zubereitet. Ansonsten Tapas, Meeresfrüchte, Fleisch auch Kaninchen in Knoblauch. Gute Weinauswahl. Für einen schönen Abend sehr zu empfehlen.