El Toro is Calpe's premier steak house specializing in North American Black Angus Beef. Visited…read moretwice during our stay in July 2013. Enrico was the most friendly waiter, and we met him again on our second visit, when he was their with his wife and having a meal too. So if the staff eat at the same palce they work, got to have something about the place. ALWAYS BOOK!!!!! Can't fault the food nor the service. You have to get the attention of the staff sometimes, but that's only because they are so busy. Once you have they are very attentive. Air Conditioned, Children's Menu, Disabled Facilities, Limited Parking, but street parking normally OK, if not competing with the church. Highly recommend the fillet steak, and the spare ribs. The children's menu is equally good. One of the young chefs came out to talk to us on our second visit.

When we arrived it was almost empty except for a couple of customers at the bar. We decided not to…read moreeat as we do like to see what is coming out of the kitchen before deciding. As the restaurant area was empty showing not a good sign as the two restaurants around the cornier were full to the brim. Therefore will give it a neutral rating, not good but not bad either.

absolute gem of a place. Helene and christer are really special people and make your visit top…read moreclass everytime. we are regulars to bacchus and have recommended it to loads of our friends in the area and from Scotland. The food speaks for itself, portions are massive and prices are very reasonable. We always have our first and our last meal with helene and christer as its a great start and end to our holidays in los alcazares. Give bacchus a try and you will not be disappointed!!

Attention business owners! Everyone who invites awesome musicians to play gets a 5* review from me…read moreautomatically no matter what. I confess I'm yet to order and eat anything at Alfie's. Every time I'm here I'm going somewhere or meeting someone (this is a busy corner of N-332 road and Carretera Villamartín). Every time I'm here I have no time to stay for longer than 15 minutes. And almost every time I'm here, there are exceptional musicians playing great music (in the afternoons around 2 - 3 pm). Like today! One minute is enough to realise you are listening to one of the best bass guitar players on the Costas (a small jazz band). I wish I had more than 1 minute. Can't wait to come back!

Lovely little bar at the end of the Altea promenade. Excellent food, cold beer/cider, and Richard &…read moreMickey are absolutely the best. Great place to play pool (although beware, the house games are very competitive, as you can see from the multitude of trophies!!), have a pint and sit back for a good chat!

Great place! Food is very good and the staff very friendly. Great vibe and good drinks.read more

terrible service and attitude from staff we ordered the most…read moreexpensive steak but didn't get what we were told we weren't offered a second drink by them the worst experience we have ever had and we out at top restaurants a lot

One star is one star too many for this place. Went for a 80 birthday meal. so a very special…read moreoccasion, and what a disappointment. Book the day before and was promised the best of the best. Had mussels to start and they tasted like they had been steamed in dish water. The steak on the bone was promised to be the best and at 89 euro per kilo should have been. it was tough and mostly fat. the potatoes were bland and we had to pay extra for cold sauce out of a bottle. The other two steaks were meant to be fillets but most definitely weren't. in and out within an hour, one drink each because they could not be bothered to ask if we wanted another. When asked we fed back our comments politely and the manager did not want to know. He was extremely rude and stood over us until we paid. I would avoid at all costs !

You would be crazy to visit this side of Alicante and not stop at this restaurant. Hands down the…read morebest steak I've had in Europe. There is a reason why this is so highly rated.

We had a table for 4 and the waiter Martin was amazing and the owner Luis was attentive and…read moregracious! The Parillada and the Entrecot were delicious with the latter being the best!

We've been in Santa Pola for about 7 days and 7 more to go. Eating out was getting monotonous,…read morethen found this little gem. The other restaurants that we've been to with high ratings, seem to take the customer for granted, rushing, impatient with clarifying questions, or downright rude. Not here. We found this restaurant on TripAdvisor where it's very highly rated and were surprised there was no review here. Having said that, we've now been here twice, this review combines both visits. Here's the review: SERVICE: The service here is much more what I'm used to as a Southern Californian. They're pleasant, genuinely nice and they appreciate our business. Every special request (another side salad please? No sauce? Ordering stuff not specifically on the menu: side of roasted potatoes, etc.) were all met with a gracious "of course." DRINKS: --Cava reasonably priced, nice larger pour, tasty. --Tap beer "Caña", reasonably priced, hits the spot. --They have a cocktail with Cava and some bitters, I was expecting mostly Cava with a splash of bitters, but there was so much other stuff in there, there was no effervescence at all from the Cava, I returned it, I wasn't charged. I won't order it again, but thankful they swapped it for me (this would be standard in L.A., not so in Spain). --Margarita, as good as any I've had in SoCal. --Water, we've had both flat and sparkling. They're both "mineraly" with the sparkling being VERY much so, just FYI FOOD: --Smoked salmon "tostada" or toasted bread with cream cheese, dill, capers, caviar. We liked it, the portion was very generous. --Empanada was served cold inside, sadly a rookie mistake, hopefully they'll figure that out We sent it back and they warmed it up properly, it was tasty once served warm. --The burger is beautiful with lots of micro greens, tomato, gorgeous bun, and a side of roasted potatoes with some seasonings that rocked it. --Spaghetti with meatballs, the pasta was fine, the meatballs a bit mealy. We're not big meatball fans, and nobody in our family liked these either, we didn't eat them. My son ordered pasta on our next visit with just butter and parm and that worked for him. --The pork ribs were delish, not the baby-back that we're used to, but every bite was eaten! It was too much for my middle son and so we all got a bit to taste. --The chicken breast was *surprisingly* tasty. Usually we try to avoid chicken breast because it can be dry and tasteless, but they pound it flat, making it cook evenly and then they grill it and it picks up a *fantastic* grilled, smokey flavor. --The side salad of greens is dressed lightly (perfectly in our opinion) with a balsamic dressing. It was so good, my teen son wanted seconds! --The side of baked potato with Roquefort cheese is good, but my husband thought it was almost a meal to itself, too much along side his pork ribs (he did eat every bite though, haha) --The sausage was good too. Hubby ordered with a side of the roasted potatoes and that made a nice meal. --The skirt steak, the best of what we had here, YUM! Strong beefy flavor, very smokey cooked to medium perfectly, my husband shared some of his roasted potatoes, it was a great match. DECOR Downstairs: The bar downstairs has a great view of the ocean and has a very cool decor, lots of thought taken, comfortable. My kids enjoyed the videos of snowboarders. The patio: Nice in that you smell the grill going and it smells great. The decor up there is like a complete afterthought, or they left grandma's decor up there. This really needs attention to make it truly comfortable. There are foux plants on the walls, hopefully they will get around to decorating it soon. You actually do NOT get a great view of the ocean up there because of the way it's set up. But if you want to dine al fresco, it's there. SUMMARY The restaurant is small, if your group is larger than two, I would highly recommend calling and reserving a table, or at least calling and make sure they have a table before you head up. They don't have lots of tables for 4 or 5. I don't think they have a web site, other than their FB one, here it is, yelp won't let me put it under web site address. https://www.facebook.com/ohanagastrobar Though there is room for improvement (decor in patio and empanada temp), for what they are doing: the food, quality of ingredients, gracious service, and reasonable prices, they get five stars from me AND my family!

Dont normally put restaurant experiences on here but thought people might like a warning before…read morebooking el Gallego in Pillar.We were looking forward to eating here as so many people said it was great. Not for us, it was the worst meal we have ever eaten. Service OK, but only one waiter on a Friday night! We found a piece of foil in the sauce we assumed was the cheese wrapper. When we highlighted this to the waiter he laughed. There's is no atmosphere with TV on showing local programs. We were led to believe this place was high end, well it isn't. The steaks we ordered were chewy and very undercooked. One of our parties ordered his cooked medium while we asked for rare. Well, all the steaks were cold in the middle. The medium steak was cooked less than the rare! We asked to cook then some more, but they must have just warned the steaks up as they were not cooked anymore. We eat steak rare all the time, and have done across the world in some high-end establishments, but these were of poor quality and very undercooked, basically raw. It's such a shame as we were really looking forward to eating here as so many people had praised it. Also a massive shame as it was our friends birthday so we hoped it would be a special night, unfortunately we were all very disappointed. Such a shame. We've heard it's under new management since so maybe the new owners arnt as interested. So.many other great places to eat nearby I'd give this place a miss. We still had a good night as we were with great friends, sometimes it doesn't matter where you are when your with the right people!!Needless to say the dog enjoyed the steak