El Cortijo - Formentera del Segura

We have been here before and it was good. They have changed the menu, putting the price up, but only to €16. However the starters have gone and are replaced by Tapas Various, which were mainly slop in mayonnaise. The main courses are very limited. My wife had sole, which was burnt and came with cold chips and over cooked veg. Ten minutes later the barbecue lamb for my son and I arrived, or to be more accurate, barbecue bones. The service, which is usually slow, was glacial. The waiter was getting ready for a wedding and found serving customers a distraction. No idea about the desserts, we were so fed up, we just got the bill and left. At least it was memorable, but for all the wrong reasons. Without doubt the worst meal in Spain!

We ate here recently, the eve menu, which is more expensive and promises a special dessert and variety of mains. The place was dirty ,grubby and dusty,and the waiter was very ambivalent and wore dirty clothes. When we sat down first he spent time laughing and messing with someone he knew at another table. He ignored us until as I have a little Spanish I called him. Only for I could speak Spanish god help us. He turned from the table he was lat and arrived with a cold uninterested face to us. Took our orders 40 mins wait for ham croquettes without the ham!, Limp salad, s Dry bread. .Another long wait for the meal which was meat barbecued, black and greasy, flakes all over with black burnt fuel, a few chips and greasy mushrooms.while this was having very slow cook the waiter tried sweeping up the pine needles, no regard for dust arriving on your table from his brush,and threw an item over the hedge into the street from the floor. He just had a careless completely uninterested air about him. Dessert was from the freezer, like you get on the 10 e meal. A very unsanitary careless and horrible experience. Tea served with hot milk,we paid and left, we should have just left ,Gaviscon all the way for the night.

Service was extremely slow, we waited an hour for our meals to arrive. My drink was forgotten about and I never received it, as well as the fact that my main meal came out with the other party member’s starters! I ordered a tuna salad and it arrived with no tuna! The waiter took it away and brought me back the same salad with a lump of tuna on the top of it. Many of the party member’s food was cold and I asked for sauce multiple times and never received it. After spending a very long 3 and a half hours here waiting for food, I Will not be returning, can honestly say I have left this restaurant very disappointed.

El Cortijo doesn’t look anything special from the outside, but once you venture in to their courtyard you will feel pleased you did so! Try and get one of the three tables at the rear of the courtyard, very secluded with some lovely features. We were here for menu del dia menu of the day) which was of a very high standard for the price . Bread with Alioli and tomato to nibble at whilst you peruse the menu. A bottle of decent wine was then brought out this is between two people). The service was extremely consistent, and you could tell they had their own system of serving you. Our order was taken, and it didn’t take too long to get our starters and a nice grade of salad. The mains were also good, and after a desert and coffee, we were all very content. All this for 10€ per person! It would be nice to revisit, but next time at night, as I feel the place would come across very different.

Our first visit to this traditional Spanish restaurant, with friends, one of whom had visited previously. We chose to sit in the shade outside in their pretty courtyard and enjoyed warm, fresh bread, alioli and tomato, and salad followed by seafood paella and pan fried salmon, veg and patatas fritas, then fresh pineapple or Vienetta or almond cake. All for just €10 apiece plus drinks and coffees. Good, friendly service too. Our first visit but not our last!