La Marenda - Banyuls-sur-Mer

My wife and I recently visited Spain, andorra and France for our vacation. after leaving from perpignan, we drove the coast down towards tossa de mar, Spain. during the journey we stopped seeing on the way and decided to lunch in...Banyuls-sur-Mer when we came to the small beach resort town, we saw a series of restaurants along the street on the beach. la marenda looked really nice with tables and sunshades right next to the beach. the prospects of our table were amazing. our server came by and took our order for a few amstel beers and bought us a bowl oliven to get...A nice touch....We ordered a marghareta pizza. the pizza was also really good. all in all, we both enjoyed our fast lunch in la marenda in Banyuls-sur-Mer and you will.

We had lunch here a few days before Christmas. the service was ok, a few more smiles from the server would have been nice. the pizza was really good, also the cafe-gourmande. we didn't like the sangria at all, but he took him back without complaining! not at the upper place, but ok for a lunch.

If it wasn't for the location you just wouldn't bother. Sat a table 45 minutes later we got a menu. Placed an order and another forty minutes before our drinks arrived. Being so close to the Spanish border we adopted a very relaxed attitude...given it was almost two weeks into our Mediterranean coastline holiday but this place takes the biscuit too far. Staff all too young inexperienced to be pretending they know what they are doing. Don't bother, lots of options around. Location is everything when there is not much else on offer!

The food was excellent scallop rissotto john dory fillets in a cream of austere sauce, delicious!, so no problem with the kitchen. it is the complete lack of being made welcome and then try to be served that this caffe / restaurant. on a first-class position on banyuls at the sea. they obviously make enough money from tourists during the season that they do not care about the service and that is a great shame.

We are only for one night in banyuls and had consulted tripadvisor for eating. we have literally read the terrible critique of yesterday when we were greeted by a friendly waiter who allowed us to choose a table. I went for the 25 €...Menu and man decided to have a whole grilled fish. my cuddles with garlic and cheese and risotto with skalopps were the most beautiful eating I had so far on this holiday. husband fish tasted really good and they made a small green salad to go with. dessert was chocolate lover who was delicious! in the run of time we were very well looked after in an increasingly busy restaurant. we loved it.