Alea - Málaga

Used large space to work with my company and had dinner after. beautiful and peaceful, especially during the weekdays. read more Used large space to work with my company and had dinner after. beautiful and peaceful, especially during the weekdays.

Attended an event today catered by this restaurant. The food was fresh, original and tasty, and the staff were superb friendly and really helpful. read more Attended an event today catered by this restaurant. The food was fresh, original and tasty, and the staff were superb friendly and really helpful.

An eye opening combination of the worst culinary experience and rudest manager. I can barely even count the ways that this meal was a disaster... Not given enou... read more An eye opening combination of the worst culinary experience and rudest manager. I can barely even count the ways that this meal was a disaster... Not given enough menus, a waitress later took back the one my mother was in the middle of reading to “borrow it,” the English and Spanish menus don’t match which was confusing, we never saw a wine list, and ended up just asking for the house wine, then after it was poured we were told one of our party had been served the wrong wine (but they would only charge us for the cheaper one... lucky us) Myself and my mother made three attempts at ordering, firstly the lasagne which we were told wasn’t available. Then a paella with pork, we specified no seafood as my mum can’t eat it. When they brought the other two people’s meals they told us our paella had accidentally been made with seafood, and was that ok? Obviously we had to say no. The other two had already started eating so we just said we’d have what they were having, but when they brought it out we were worried that it was undercooked. They did offer to reheat it again, but by this point the other two were finished eating so we just asked if they would just bring the check. Important is, our group were still being nice to the front of house staff about the food issues, it was not their fault the kitchen kept messing up. We were leaving, still in an ok mood despite the whole thing being a mess. On the way out we hear someone from a table start up with “this is fine dining here, go back to the UK...” I finally lost my temper and when I confronted this guy it turned out he told me was in fact the manager. I assume he thought our lowly British palettes couldn’t cope with his food and we would have been better with beans on toast. After the experience we had at his restaurant I have to agree, beans on toast would have preferable to this absolute circus which saw us leaving without any main course. Our experience here was so atrocious it’s I can already tell the story will make it’s way into family legend “remember that godforsaken restaurant in Malaga?” Avoid. Go literally anywhere else. Buy a packet of crisps and eat them sitting on the kerb them for a more authentic “fine dining” experience.

Went there for a tapas and a glass of wine and wow it was absolutly brilliant, they do traditional Spanish tapas with a modern twist, we had the tatare salchich... read more Went there for a tapas and a glass of wine and wow it was absolutly brilliant, they do traditional Spanish tapas with a modern twist, we had the tatare salchichones (dont know if i spelled it correct and it was very good and the one glass of wine turned into a few :

I have been living for 8 years in Malaga, visiting all possible restaurants, but this has been by far the worst experience. On Saturday 8 feb, I have been with... read more I have been living for 8 years in Malaga, visiting all possible restaurants, but this has been by far the worst experience. On Saturday 8 feb, I have been with my family 2 adults and 2 infants) for lunch. We sit outside and we ordered croquetas, artichokes and a solomillo de Buey. The first two dishes arrived within normal timing and were ok. Then it took 1 hour to receive the meat solomillo). On top of it the weather changed and we asked to sit inside, they told us it was fully booked, while it looked completely empty. After many request the meat finally arrived. They did not change our plates which were covered with garlic from the starters), when we asked to change the plates, they brought us new ones without removing the dirty ones. Instead of a solomillo de Buey €28), they brought us a Chuleton de Buey €175), which they obviously added to the bill. We arrived at 13.30h, leaving at 15.30 the restaurant was still empty inside, so they left us with a baby of 10 months sitting outside for no reason. Which was supposed to be a nice and relaxing lunch, left us with a very bad feeling... we definitely don’t recommend Alea to anyone who wants to have a nice lunch or dinner.