I ate here yesterday, Nov 3rd, around 9 pm, and had the worst dining experience of my life. To start, we were seated a little after 9:15 pm ,and quickly placed out drink orders and food order. We asked for a soda and the seafood Paella, so the kitchen should have received this order around 9:30 pm right?
Wrong. We get our drinks at 9:40 ish, and wait. Terrible stale bread was brought out but that is the least of my comments. By the time 10:20 pm rolls around, we are pretty confused. Many other people had been served before us, and we started to get concerned that the order was never placed. I flag down the waitress and ask her if she could please check on our order, and she leaves.
Another 5 minutes go by, at the point, we are pretty annoyed. Both of us were hungry and there was no food in sight. Our waiter come back to let us know that, "they burned the first Paella in the kitchen, so they are cooking another, and would we like a tapas on the house?"
We both considered leaving, and we absolutely should have, but rationalized that it must be close to finished, the waiter assured us no more than 20 minutes. We took note of the time, about 10:25 pm, and decided to wait. We ordered the pork tapas.
Now it is a little before 10:40 pm and we are pissed. The tapas is nowhere to be seen, nor is our waiter shown themselves to check on us, a full hour and 15 minute after placing an order. Finally, the tapas arrives, followed quickly by the Paella.
I WISH that this was the end, that the food was fine and we went home. Not the case.
I'm eating the pork, and my friend makes a comment about how well it is cooked. It was such a a thin cut that I assured myself it must be cooked to temperature and kept eating, she stopped. The Paella arrived with some raw squid front and center. After all that time, we picked at the worst Paella of our lives, accepted that we had lost an hour and a half of our time and 35 € and went home. The waiters were annoyed that we were annoyed, everyone was unhappy.
In the middle of the night, I was awoken by some stomach pain, and have spent all of today horribly sick. My friend is ill but not as bad as me, leading me to think that it was the pork. I can officially check off my bucket list that I got food poisoning in Seville.
I spent 1.5 hours of my vacation eating at a terrible restaurant and an entire day of my vacation being so I'll I can't move far from the bed.
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