Mykonos - Bahia Blanca

The main drawback is its location on the edge of the vast beach car park. It did get very, very busy – the car park that is.

Meanwhile the restaurant, with its 'kind of' Middle Eastern ambience, remained fairly empty.

The food was good. Tuna tartare, cous cous salad with water melon and feta cheese, roasted cheese kebabs and fig relish, pots of pepper, cheese and white almond dip and olive paste.   However as they had not yet got round to an English version of the menu and the Camel’s Greek is rusty to non existent, we had to ask the very helpful waiter to translate.

There was lots of “musack”, paper napkins and mats.

The lunch became more interesting when the rookie waiter failed to clip the ice bucket holding our bottle of Chablis to the table properly.

This camel almost leapt from under his hump when the best bottle of white on the list crashed to the floor. Sharing is one thing, but our neighbours would have preferred the sun to drench their legs, not our fine wine.

Blame culture kicked in as the manager firstly suspected the camel of neglect then realised that the incompetence lay within his own camp. There then followed amusing negotiation as he panicked at the prospect of replacing a (relatively) expensive bottle of wine.

He offered complimentary glasses of “house” white, desserts, chocolates, flowers, his camel, to avoid having to supply us with another bottle of Chablis on the house.

Bahia Blanca is okay, but Solymar further down the beach is altogether a better option.

 
Bahia Blanca
Kalo Livadi
Mykonos