Don Javier in Ronda

This review pertains to lunch only, and not hotel stay. The service from waiters are good enough, however there is absolutely no love from the kitchen.

The food was just uninspiring from the minute it arrived. It is very clear that the owner and chef in charge run a deep freeze operation. The menu was very well priced and some would therefore justify the use of frozen food.

With so much beautiful and fresh produce in Spain, using frozen vegetables especially, just seems disrespectful to Spanish gastronomy and culture, nevermind having no consideration for their guests. Even an ordinary housewife could do a far better job with the frozen food than these chefs did.
The vegetables were lifeless and tastless, and the chips have been hanging out in a chip dump; simply stale, oily and dreadful.

We chose two dishes of salmon and one with hake and clams. The salmon leeched white proteins, looked boring and tasted like freezer burn. My hake with clams, which I really looked forward to, did not do this Basque classic, "Merluza a la Vizcaina" any justice. The hake in my opinion was fresh, but it tasted as if it missed a few stock rotations in service.

This is a well situated tourist trap to be avoided at all cost. I have subsequently found many better places to eat at in Ronda than Don Javier. We apologise to those worthy chefs for having skipped them.

I never in my life tasted pasta as bad .. dripping with oil , tasteless and the garlic bread was dry .. seriously cannot understand how you can get a carbonara so wrong .. the older man serving was attentive but the younger guy wanted to anywhere else 🙄

Skip eating here. Beware when asked do you want bread. It is charged ,€1.60 per head. So €8 for bread. We hadn't experienced that ripoff anywhere all week. As part of a family group of 5 on a trip to Rhonda, we had lunch here. It was bad. Tossed out dishes. Small portions. Overpriced. 10% service charge on top listed prices. None of us enjoyed it. Lured in by waiter. Tourist trap.

The food was not tasty at all, very greasy. I had pasta and it was the worst pasta i tried ever. I felt sick for two hours afterwards. The service was a bit slow. I would not recommend it.

I ordered a pizza. It was a ready-made oven-baked pizza for 2 euros, and they put tuna on top. It was a very bad pizza. Such a good location, the server was nice, but the food was a disaster.