23 Aug 2011 6:59 PM:

IF and I say If you have a successful real estate business in Spain you are very lucky, and if indeed it is that successful then the Dolphin bar is not for wining and dining potential clients, it is however a typical Spanish family bar with and I quote from many people that I speak to “oh that is the bar with the comfortable chairs” and they serve a limited menu serving breakfasts, toasties, salads and baguettes, and yes it is a successful business supporting two generations of Spanish Nationals trading all year seven days a week closing only on Christmas day and to my knowledge of the port is one of the few that that has a continual customer base of locals and holidaymakers whom I know return year after year making it a very popular and successful venue and enabling them to trade all year.

 

I have been In Spain for over four years and I have worked and am working in the port at the moment visiting the port most evenings for a few drinks and using many of the bars the Dolphin included and I have never come across any rude staff or bad service in any of the bars, my knowledge of the catering industry spans over 40 years and for me to read that you could imagine somebody putting something in your food I find very insulting to all catering staff the world over and in all my years have never encountered that happening.

 

Why did you wait so long for a sandwich and a salad, from my past experience customers waiting time for food is often exaggerated and I do insist a time is put on to all orders I receive, I however would have walked away long before that and even sooner had my wife been pregnant, I have only walked away from one bar since I have been in Spain and that was after waiting only 5 minutes with nobody coming to take my order.

 

Peter A.

 

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23 Aug 2011 6:57 PM:

Having been here in Spain for the past 4 years and living locally, I have been in several bars in Duquesa port English and Spanish owned.

I have also been in the catering trade for 20 years and can honestly say that the Dolphin bar is run with care, speed and above all politeness.

This bar I know has been in the same hands for 23 years a Spanish family who have also had businesses before so therefore cannot be considered amateurs.

The mere fact that that this bar has been in the same hands and is frequented by English and of course Spanish alike and has many regulars all year round of all nationalities  says much more than one couples vicious and unfounded attack.

I do hope that that their estate agents business never comes across someone such as them who obviously has nothing else to do with their time.

I think you will find that most of us have would not bother to make such comments we would just not return.!!!

 

 

Nicky

 

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