Camarote - Abanilla

Peix de Santa Pola is marked on the entry, a quality label referring to the local Santa Pola bay, known for its prawns and sardines. a nice terrace in the middle of an honestly dead city. So there we went, sat down, were served by a nose punctured hippy, we could not care, we asked for specialties, were recommended to have sardines and calamari, so we did. We waited, we waited, we waited and got our sardines served. Dry as hell, certainly not fresh, probably out of the freezer, thrown in the pan. Calamari were little rolls of cardboard, not sure where these came from, suspect the far seas of Vietnam (no offence to my great Vietnamese friends). I paid far too much, felt disappointed and know for a fact. That label means nothing...