El Pescador

Our second dinner in Estepona, and our second restaurant chosen based on the recommendations of the El Pilar Hotel where we stayed. It’s a medium-high-end restaurant with an extensive seafood menu and quality food. We had scurpinas, large clams, peregrina scallops, concha fina, red prawns, clam and cod tortitas, and a centollo, a whole giant crab. Everything was good to excellent, except for the tortitas, which were better elsewhere. So why four and not five? Because the service isn’t up to par with the restaurant and the prices. They forgot about the tortitas and brought them halfway through the meal, and the food arrived slowly and haphazardly. We saw them clean two sea bass for the tables next to us and were grateful we hadn’t ordered them. The four is for the quality of the food, but with service like this, it could easily be a three or two.