M.B Martin Berasategui

Last evening in Tenerife and the best restaurant for a few years. 2 Michelin stars and fully deserved. This was a really special meal. From the smoking fois gras at the start to the petit four revolving trolley. Simply stunning taste, presentation and amazing staff. One of the top three meals of all time and surprisingly good value. We really enjoyed it.

This was a fabulous experience for my birthday. I came with my mom and we had the best experience. It was so much food and very good. she is vegetarian and they had a full degustation menue for her too.

This was a phenomenal meal. I've been lucky enough to eat at a small number of 2 Michelin Star restaurants and by a distance this was the best service of them all. Simply amazing and watching the subtle communication of all the wait staff was like watching a fine painter paint. We had the Great Tasting Menu, which whilst not cheap is certainly worth the money. Beautiful presentation of each dish, as one would anticipate, and this was just not form over function. I can name on just one finger a dish I was not "wowed by. Truly delightful. And the bread and butter. Yes, I said it, the bread and butter. Go, enjoy.

The decor of the restaurant are simple yet cool and modern. The staff is really prepared, knowledgeable and nice. As soon as we arrived they introduced themselves to us and offered an aperitif as part of the experience (4 different dishes), we then moved to the main restaurant room to have dinner. We tried The Great Classics menu with wine pairing, if you love wine I really recommend to do the wine pairing. The wines were really unique compared to other michelin star restaurants we have tried. Once we finished our menu, we were invited to seat back in the room where we had the first aperitif and they presented us the sweet cart called the petite four, you can choose few sweets directly from there, I loved it!

Service at M.B. was the weakest we encountered in the resort. We asked how long the dinner would take as my wife is pregnant (and easily tired). They said it would be 2-2.5 hours. It was 4 hours. When after those 4 hours we asked if we could take the petit fours home in a box, 1 minute later we received the bill instead. Another minute later they told us this was not possible as they were “to be enjoyed in the restaurant”. I think this is an absolute service no go and frankly a complete embarassment for the restaurant. I know Michelin doesn’t use service as one of its criteria for awarding stars but I do think there should be some minimum basic level of service reached at this price point which unfortunately wasn’t reached at M.B. Food of the regular menu was ok although a bit uneven with the lamb undercooked and the seabass having a weird structure I never encountered before in a fine dining restaurant, and I don’t think it was particularly pleasant. And the chocolate desert was something I would expect at my local neighbourhood restaurant, not a 2 star. Highlight for me was probably the technically impressive semi-liquid tortilla. The vegetarian menu was underwhelming with many restaurants in my hometown Amsterdam with 1 star or without one being able to deliver a vastly superior menu. Also as a gesture to the guest I think the vegetarian menu should always be priced slightly cheaper than the standard menu if the regular one has many premium ingredients like caviar, uni and white truffle and the vegetarian menu has absolutely none. But the restaurant doesn’t seem very guest focused. I would say it is still fine to go this place if you are ok with a bit overpriced menu, weak service and a bit uneven cooking, but my guess is that if you want to really enjoy Martin Bersateguis cooking it is better to visit his eponymous restaurant or Lasarte in Barcelona about which I’ve read many good things.

The food is nice and interesting. We liked our mains (turbot and lamb), the apple tart, and the bread service. It was enough food to feel full at the end. However, there were a few things that we didn’t love. The service is very proper and the servers seem occupied with table manners and synchronized serving etc., but it seemed like they were so busy trying to get everything “right” that they were not fully present. They move you through rooms during “the experience” like musical chairs, so you have a bunch of different servers during one meal for different things. It’s also very disappointing (borderline shocking for a fine dining restaurant) that our reservation asked us for our occasion (proposal celebration - we got engaged yesterday!) but there was zero acknowledgment. Not sure why they would ask for that info upfront and then totally ignore. Another weird thing was when we had an unexpected charge on the bill for us splitting an appetizer, the server asked us if there was anything he could do instead of just offering to waive the couple-euro fee. He did waive the fee in the end, but it was a surprising way to address the situation. The decor and ambiance reminded us of a cruise ship. It’s strangely brightly lit and the seating is all in open couches. Few windows. There’s a big console in the middle of the dining room that looks like a buffet table. There’s no sense that you’re on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It’s really, really quiet. It also wasn’t busy at all. We liked the food, but because of the high price and those drawbacks, would not come back.

Ok so not what I was expecting from a 2 star Michelin restaurant. The food is very good but certainly not any better than some of the other food we had in Tenerife or the Ritz Carlton Abama and for the price it only gets a 3 star rating on here for me . The decor is very modern but the lighting is not very ambient and quite a harsh white clinical lighting . Very odd. The service was not particularly great and as the restaurant got more busy the waiters and waitresses got overwhelmed . I heard multiple customer complaining that they did not get offered drinks and drinks were not topped up. We had an open bottle of water that we could not reach and the waiters didn’t once come and refill. These are service basics that you get in non Michelin restaurants. Some of the food was great such as a bread made from puff pastry which I would love to have again but nothing else really stood out . Food however looked very artistic and beautifully presented.

This was my first 2 star Michelin experience and albeit I'm not normally a fan of fine dining, we decided to treat ourselves. For me, the food was probably not to my personal taste but this was so much more than just food. This was an experience. One I won't forget. The staff were incredible, I put 4 stars but it's more like 4.5, bar a few tiny tiny issues they were knowledgeable, attentive, friendly and warm and quick like lightening considering they had quite a few tables to tend to at a high level of service. The food looked and was presented incredibly well. I will admit my taste is more steak and potatoes than haute cuisine but it was so interesting to see how everything was presented and you could tell the amount of work gone into these dishes was exceptional The restaurant itself has a fabulous relaxed chic neutral atmosphere. The wine suggested by our waiter was delicious and the whole experience from aperitif to petit four at the end was divine. The head chef presents himself at each table to check how the experience is. At nearly €650 plus tip for 2, this was all about the experience for me. Well done.