The Office — located directly on Medano Beach. Absolutely incredible breakfasts and lunches. Fantastic service, but with a few gotchas (read on).

Dinner also, but a bit noisy from the music of competing establishments on either side. Eat with your toes in the sand, looking at the best view of Los Arcos. This establishment is a “must do” and owned by the folks who own Ediths (up the street).

If you go, keep in mind that you’re on the beach for your meal and along with being on the beach, uh, come “the vendors.” They’re very polite, but if you sit at the edge of the eating area you’ll feel like your every move is being watched by … the vendors. Sit a few tables in and you won’t even know they’re there.

Gotchas:  1) They have a nasty habit of treating their customers as if they’re total tourists; this means overbilling (quoting in pesos and charging in dollars at an unreasonable exchange rate and 2) we wore our “The Office” hat recently and they said “because of the hat, you get two-for-one drinks! Well, we ordered two drinks and they charged us for two, saying the “second drink was to go only.”  Fail.  No tip. 3) Timeshare solicitations. Your waiter may be on “the take” and offer to comp you your meal if…

Foot of Paseo Pescador at Médano Beach. Ph: 143-3464, 143-4919; Fax:143-3080. Dinner reservations suggested. Daily 7am-10pm. Happy hour 3-5 each day.

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