Da Fa - Benidorm

Last year we visited Da Fa and had a very good meal hence our return visit. On this occasion my husband and I had the 7.80€ set meal. We both had vegetable spring rolls to start followed by sweet and sour chicken balls with chips and rice for our mains. The spring rolls were greasy and the chicken balls were under cooked with soggy batter. The sweet and sour sauce was runny with hardly any vegetables. We were the only customers but the service was rushed. The main was brought out while half way through eating the starter. The staff made us feel like they were about to close but it was 5.30pm (they close at 11pm).

We all had the 3 course set meal for €7 80 with half a bottle of wine. The staff made the group feel welcome and the restaurant was immaculate and Covid compliant with hand santiser and well spaced tables. On arrival we had prawn crackers and most of us started with the spring roll which was enormous and tasted great. There was a great choice of main courses including sweet and sour chicken balls, pineapple chicken and chicken curry. The meal deal came with a choice of egg fried or noodles. For dessert there was a choice of ice cream or coffee. I would recommend a visit because the meal was excellent value for money, tastes great and the portion sizes were huge.

Tried this place twice recently. We were regular customers a few years ago but it has changed hands within the the last 3 years. It was very quiet on the first occasion and only called again because we were staying close by and had had a hard day walking round the market.This time there was just one other customer and the only background was a young boy watching cartoons on the TV. The owner/waitress then managed to sneeze nearby without bothering to use a tissue. Previous customers who we met later were of the same opinion that it was no longer worth visiting and am sorry to say that it seems Da Fa will be strugglig to survive unless it changes.

Popped in after reading reviews and looked past the basic decor.Ordered drinks and came back with wrong order so requested again and second order was also wrong but gave the benefit of the doubt thinking the language barrier might of been the prob so decided to keep the second round.Ordered from the set menu and first course was a spring roll which although hot was very greasy, the waiter who came to clear plates after starter put clean plates down then plonked our dirty cutlery from the starter onto the clean plates obviously for us to use for our main. I asked him for clean cutlery and he just brought me some and not my husband so I called over to what I presumed was the manager and said we were not happy with the service we had received an would just pay for the drinks and starter to which she started shouting and when we also mentioned the drink order being wrong they miraculously brought to the table what we had originally ordered. We declined and she went off in a huff I thought to get the bill but she came back with the food which arrived in what can only be described as a mixed nibbles type of bowl and looked in no way appetising, we refused the food and once again asked for the bill an this time she brought it us but with much angst and shouting...We paid and left and will never return. Although I wasnt expecting top notch food I wasnt expecting it to be so poor and the service diabolical.

Stumbled (literally!! into this place purely by chance! So glad we did now. Excellent friendly service! Complimentary bowl of prawn crackers were on the table almost before we sat down! A couple of pints, then one of the set menu options with bottle of wine, all for less than 25euro for the pair of us! Couldn’t find any fault with the food, it was all obviously freshly cooked, tasty, and loads of it! Glad we found it when we did, only 2 days into our stay, we will be back before the week is out.