Hotel Montsant

The only thing we got out of this lunch stop was a laugh at how surreal it all became. The €20 set menu was a disaster, and I left feeling queasy and with no appetite. The lentils we ordered smelled odd, almost like gas, and tasted even worse. They were inedible. I passed on the included dessert. The service was bad throughout, with a poor attitude and no interest in making things right. When I asked the waitress what “salmon dodos” on the menu meant, she couldn’t explain it, despite my guess that it was a typo for dice. I ordered the “entrecote” instead, but it was nothing like that, just a dry, tough piece that was hard to swallow. My friend ordered flan, which arrived with a long hair on top, probably a woman’s. We pointed it out, and the waitress insisted on replacing it. My friend asked for the replacement without sauce, since the first one was drenched in some kind of chocolate sauce. They brought it with twice as much sauce. I can’t prove it, but I have no doubt it was the same flan with the hair removed and more sauce poured over to hide the mess. It was one of the worst decisions I’ve made in a long time. I’m never going back.

The food was terrible, and the service was even worse, despite there being only four tables and all of them full. We finally asked for the second courses 20 minutes after finishing the first, and they still hadn’t prepared them. We told them to charge us for half the menus and left. Before that, we’d waited 20 minutes just to get up and ask for menus, then over 30 more for someone to take our order. After another half hour, we had to get up to order the first courses ourselves. They hadn’t even brought bread to go with the meal. The experience couldn’t have been worse. If I’d checked the reviews first, I wouldn’t have stopped here. Don’t stop here, find somewhere else that’ll surely be a better experience!

We weren’t sure we’d get lunch since it was 6 pm on a Sunday, but they served us tapas and combination plates. The patatas bravas were delicious, with a spectacular sauce. The combination plate with salad and steak was pretty good too. I even asked for extra bravas sauce. 😄😄🤭🤭

The food was poor in quality, preparation, and presentation, and definitely too expensive for what it was. We stopped for lunch while passing through, and the waiter told us on arrival that they only take cash, which felt like a way to discourage us. We stayed anyway, and he offered a €20 set menu with few options and no drinks included. The experience was awful. I’d recommend carrying on and not stopping there.