Chalito Rambla

We did not know much about this restaurant, but wanted to have a big dinner since we were out all day. There was a line but the turnover was relatively quick, got seated within 5 minutes. The portions were huge. For some reason we enjoyed the wings. Their main dish was alright (milanese), i find their other menu dishes to be more enjoyable.

The food was great with a generous amount, it’s delicious and the atmosphere was nice but the restaurant was dirty. I wish they would consider that and make it cleaner like the table was so sticky!!

A catastrophic experience, we were treated with disdain by all but one of the waitresses who attended us. Thankfully, the food was fine. I wanted to book something simple yet good for a birthday celebration. Having been to other Chalito establishments in Barcelona, I expected this one to match the standards of the others I had visited. I didn’t have great expectations at all, but my gosh did the waiting staff do a great job at lowering those expectations even further. I arrived first and on time for the reservation as I wanted the other guests to arrive comfortably. I was shocked by the first hostess’s piss-poor reception and impolite approach to her explanation of not allowing me to be seated at the table without the rest of my party. That policy is fine and I can respect it as I could wait for 5 minutes for other people to show up but her tone was out of line. When the rest of my party arrived only a few minutes later, we were passed off to an even worse waitress/hostess who treated us like we were her mortal enemies. Not becoming of the reception one would ideally like to receive for a birthday event. After all, we were not a difficult group of young teenagers, or a busload of tourists for instance, but a manageable group of adults. This lady proceeded to tell us that as soon as we went in, we had 1 hour and 30 minutes to eat and get out. Once again that restaurant policy is fine, but it was the way she was telling us and talking to me as if I was stupid, as if she genuinely hated our very being. This animosity continued as any time she would see us or interact with our party, she would carry herself with absolutely no elegance or intention to at least disguise her distaste for us. She was quite clearly flustered by the busyness of that particular Friday night. I understand this as it was particularly busy likely due to Black Friday. However, if you struggle to cope with such business then you might be in the wrong job. It was, after all, not really our fault or cause for her to be in such a terrible mood with us from minute 0. This attitude entailed slamming the bill down, signaling the time on her watch as honourable mentions. She also got one of the other waitresses involved in her shenanigans. Just to reiterate I understand the need to turn tables and perhaps management pressure to do so but this was not the way to go in my opinion. Thankfully, we did have one waitress who was able to muster a smile and professional attitude and the food was not bad, thank goodness! Naturally, the delivery was pretty slow—again, that can be expected on such a busy night so no real issue there. The overall calamity of the situation became almost funny. I don’t think they could have treated us worse if they had been instructed to.

we eat some meat and french fry and other thing and it was so yummy and staff was very kind so l like this restranunt and l like this energy too. So l recommmend this restranunt.

The food tasted amazing and the waiters were also very friendly. We arrived shortly before 20:00 and easily got a table. But after 20:30 it became full and around 21:00 there was a long line outside the restaurant.