Quintín is all surface. The setting is lovely and the reputation is... loud. But it’s a disorganized and disappointing operation. One of the worst meals I’ve had in five years in Spain, not for what was served, but for how little they seemed to care.

The building itself, which is a 14th-century castle, is complete with classic turrets and a stone moat. It has the kind of atmospheric gravity that can't be designed. It just exists.