Tarablake Pamplona

Review of The castaway restaurant

I've been here a couple of times. My first time wa...

I've been here a couple of times. My first time was for brunch and it was great. The service, day staff and quality of the food was on point. I left very satisfied.

Guest Service:
I came back last week for dinner. TBH, I wasn't impressed. First of all, it was my uncle's going away dinner that I planned just for 3 people. It was my uncle's first time so I wanted it to be special. Knowing brunch was amazing when I last came, I had high expectations. We sat on the patio, the server didn't approach our table immediately. Which was fine, it was a little busy so understandable. I noticed, there were 2 or 3 other tables that sat in our vicinity shortly after we were seated. They received bread for the table right away. Finally, the server greets us and takes our drink orders. He takes awhile to bring the drinks, still no bread. 10 - 15 min. Later, drinks come and then the bread. Oh and come to find out, the other tables sitting around us didn't have our server which made a lot of sense as to why everything came so fast for them! Their server was actually attentive. Anyway, the server took our orders. We only put a few items; a rib-eye steak, a Branzino and some veggies. Of course, the server didn't even put in asparagus that he specifically suggested for the steak. Typically, I would write about the quality of the food but the service at this place was so poor, it doesn't even matter if the food was good or not. To make a long story short, Experience makes all the difference to me. I won't be coming back here. :(