El Bálamu

Great food. Super friendly staff, so nice. Pretty restaurant with a great view. Immediately made a reservation for the next available date. Second time back the hostess and waiter were not so great. Hostess seemed obsessed with her call to me to confirm the reservation. When I asked why she didn't leave a message she said she didn't speak English, ridiculous. Leave it in Spanish. I don't mind grumpy staff, some of my favorite restaurants the staff are always grumpy, I just like consistency

Cane here with friends to explore Asturias. We were really impressed with the quality of the seafood. The views in the restaurant were spectacular and the service was top notch. Absolute star of the meal was the cabrocho, a delicious fish that almost tastes like lobster!

Our best dining experience in Asturias. The waitress was friendly and accommodating. She provided great recommendations. We had white prawns and calamari to start which were both delicious but the highlight of the meal was the whole Scorpionfish. To top it all off, you have a great view of the harbor while eating. Definitely recommend if you’re in the area and looking for good seafood!

Super restaurant; food excellently prepared and fantastic friendly service. We had the scorpion fish and monkfish, both were very tasty. For dessert the cheesecake was divine. Highly recommend.

I went to eat with my family in this restaurant, the waiter was arrogant and insisted that we take the fish what was not in the menu, he said it costs 24€, and then he charged everyone 33€ for the fish, and when we mentioned it to him after looking at the check, he then says that it costs 24€ raw, which is nonsense. The food was bad, the fish was good, but I feel scammed and the waiters laughed at us and made stupid comments.

I would strongly discourage anyone to eat in this restaurant as my husband and I got a severe food poisoning from eating here. The fish was recommended to us by the staff, and this was the only meal we shared that day. We both got really sick about 3 hours later, throwing up the fish and leaving no doubt what was the cause of the problem. The poisoning was so severe we were taken by the ambulance to the local hospital, where I was put on an IV drip. Being 5 months pregnant, we were terrified we might lose our baby. Once we recovered we went to the restaurant to file a complaint in hope they will inspect the food they serve. The manager did give us the form to write the complaint, but were not at all interested in investigating what went wrong with the food. She tried to blame the food poisoning on the water or something else we have eaten. We showed all the proof from the hospital, but the manager (and her colleague) showed absolutely no concern or sympathy about what happened. We underhand that we might have been unlucky and maybe it was a single contaminated fish - and this is forgivable. What is not forgivable is the response we got. We were shocked by how little they seemed to care about a serious incident caused by their food. If you do decide to eat there - good luck, I hope their experience is better than ours.

This evening my wife (who is Chinese) and I (British Male) visited El Balamu on the off chance of availability due to the good reviews on Google. We arrived and they found that they had a cancellation last minute. We thought we were in luck and indeed the food was lovely that we ate in 30 minutes in the end and left because of the following. Unfortunately we were served by a hostile waiter who was rude and belittling to my wife. He spoke to me in English on arrival, and so we reverted to English, but when we sat down and my wife asked for two glasses of white wine, he forced her to say it again in Spanish on the spot, trying to embarrass her and repeating it slowly with her as if she was a child. He then made multiple pointed remarks about being able to speak Spanish and that we shouldn’t just expect him to speak English and said everything in Spanish to us before reverting to English after. Note that he was already speaking to us in English from the start - we can get by and have in many Spanish restaurants through our trip where they spoke no English and we used the broken Spanish we have. We always try to speak Spanish and the language of where we are visiting wherever we go. We love different cultures and my wife speaks several languages. Tonight however was unacceptable. He made her cry in the restaurant and yet still continued making his point. Perhaps notably he did not do the same to me, just to her…I wonder why? Asturias and the people here have been lovely so far. They have been welcoming and kind to us since being here for the past week. This was the first encounter with a small minded and rude man with poor service skills - he was the 40-50+ male waiter working on Saturday 24th evening. The other waiters in the restaurant were lovely and we spoke to them after this waiter didn’t return to our table again, likely after he saw my wife was upset. We were hoping to go back to the restaurant. But we will never return to a place where someone can be so rude to their customers. It is not what I would expect of Asturias given how nice everyone has been so far and I have never encountered anything like it in my life. I wanted to say something in the restaurant but my wife didn’t want to make a big deal. In my upbringing we should always make a big deal when someone is being a bully. So here I am, on Google Reviews to let everyone who looks to visit the restaurant know. I wonder if he would learn Chinese and speak the language if he visited Hong Kong?

Everything perfect I had the garlic Gambas really tasty and also the tuna and mero fish food is really tasty price is fair for the quality