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😒 3/5 - This is a tough review to write because I really wanted to
By 👻 @Pablo C., 03/22/2023 3:00 am
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This is a tough review to write because I really wanted to love this place. Unfortunately, it would be really hard to recommend it; particularly to anyone who has been to Spain. My parents are Spanish immigrants and, although I was born here, I was raised in Spain until I was about six and then traveled to Spain to see family every year until I graduated from college after which I lived in Spain for a few years until I again moved back here. We still go back to see family regularly. I only mention this to highlight the fact that I am not a stranger to Spanish food and the delightful tapas of Spain. This restaurant, while it has many authentic Spanish items, is decidedly not Spanish in its execution. Our server was great. He did a fine job at being our server, but honestly, that was probably the best part of our experience. When he greeted us, the first words of his spiel were about how the restaurant serves its food "in the traditional Spanish tapas way." No, it most certainly does not.First of all, they don't offer you free bread. They have bread, but it's not the traditional crusty baguette "pan de barra" that you get all over Spain. Instead, they have a thick cut sourdough bread which tastes fine, but you pay $8.00 for four slices. In all of the literally hundreds of bars and restaurants I have been in in Spain (and Italy and France for that matter) nowhere has ever charged for bread, particularly not at a tapas joint.Secondly, the portions are small and outrageously priced. I've eaten enough boquerones to choke a killer whale in bars all over Spain. If you order them here, you will get three pieces (which add up to one and a half whole fish since they are split down the middle) and you pay $10 for them. They were presented very well but way too expensive. We put together a meat and cheese board and the portions of each, while still way overpriced, were pretty respectable. We had the chorizo, lomo, serrano ham and two cheeses. The cheeses were supposed to be on the firm side, but one of them, the Mahon, was dry and hard as a rock. We couldn't cut it with a knife without it splintering all over the place (there's probably still some behind the wine bottles that were next to our table). We had the grilled carrots which were cooked very well and tender, olives, and the octopus which had a nice char - but all at a much steeper price than they deserved.Third, while they do have a very extensive wine list (we paid $75 for a middling bottle of Albariño), they have no spirits (which might just be a liquor license issue) and they only feature one beer - which isn't even Spanish. No Aguila, no Estrella, no Mahou, nothing. They also offer one cider.To sum up, the pictures attached to this review (except the bottle of wine which is not pictured) set us back almost $300. No one in Spain has ever paid $300 for tapas unless they had a lot of people with them or they were ordering gambas rojas, percebes and angulas. The food may be imported from Spain (all of which anybody can get on-line), but the prices for what should be a casual appetizer snack are way out of line. Charging for bread? Get outta here.The bottom line: Yes the food is from Spain, but at these prices your money would be better spent actually flying to Spain and eating it there. It's not bad quality, but hard (if not impossible) to justify the bill.
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