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Came here for Valentine's day with a reservation requesting for their best seat they had. They gave us a semi-circle couch seat in the back corner of the restaurant near the bar and a large window and it was SO cold! They had one heater blowing the opposite direction of our half of the room. Other than the lack of heat, the seating and decor was nice and comfortable. Great date spot with low lighting.
Service: 4/5
The server did a great job. He served us complimentary tea to make up for the lack of comfort and checked up on us often. Actually all the staff minus the hostess were great! They were all tentative and described each dish as they were served. The hostess seemed to need more training or experience in general. My friend's previous experience with the same hostess had my friend giving the hostess the suggestion of waiting at the bar for the next available table. When asked how long the wait would be the hostess simply said "I don't know." Which is better than lying and saying 10-15mins if you really don't know but as a hostess it's your job to know.
Food: 3/5
As we sat down we order the paella de tapagria right away as it would take a while to make.
We decided on the jamon(JAMON! - bacon) wrapped dates in sweet sauce. I thought this was their best dish we had, it had the crispy bacon and mushy dates and sweet with savory flavors. I like contrasting textures like crispy fries with mashed potato-esque insides so this tapas was right up my in my mouth hole.
The angus tartare with truffle oil on what I think is a piece of french baguette (probably wrong). It's exactly that, nothing special. This was my least favourite dish. It was actually not enjoyable because I don't like truffles and I don't like raw minced meat (I like carpaccio though) and this was basically that on toast. The toast was good.. I can't give this dish a good judgement because of my dislike of the ingredients so you have to try it yourself if it sounds appetizing to you.
The paella arrived on a hot skillet it had bomba rice, shrimp, chorizo, hen breast in 2 pieces, mussels, clams, octopus, and peas. I'm on a side quest to look for the best paella and after this one, I'm still on that quest. This paella is decent but not what I expected. Our's was more smokey than we would've liked, almost burnt tasting on some parts. The rice wasn't as infused with flavour but with such a short cooking time I can't see how it would. It was, I guess, "A-OK." Maybe some lemon or lime would've been good to cut the smoke.
To conclude I wouldn't come here for their paella, personally. I would come back to try their other tapas dishes and their huge selection of sangria but that will have to wait for the Summer when their building is actually warm.
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