Bahia Beach Jazba

Bahia Beach Jazba carries close to five thousand Google reviews, more than any other place on this beach and more than most businesses of any kind in the town. That number tells you what it is before the menu does: a large beach club on the Poniente promenade, built for volume, running from lunch through to the small hours in season.

The kitchen serves without a break, so it solves the problem every visitor runs into here, which is arriving hungry at four in the afternoon when the Spanish lunch service has closed. Prices sit a step above the espeto chiringuitos, and what you are paying for is the setting and the hours rather than the fish.

I would come here for the evening rather than the meal. If you want the local ritual, the boat with the fire and the sardines, there are half a dozen simpler places within a few hundred metres that do it better. If you want a table by the sea at ten at night in July, this is the reliable answer.