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| - A group of six of us went last night and sat on the patio. Our server broheim was inside most of the time and took quite some time getting our glasses filled, our order taken etc. One friend had to leave because he had a concert an hour after we sat down, when we still hadn't gotten food. We had gotten a pitcher of sangria ($36), which was totally unremarkable. This is a compliment for a bottle of $36 wine but not for $36 sangria.
Our server seemed somewhat surprised that we had not gotten any food yet after an hour. He blamed it on a big group and offered to move us inside. Perhaps he could have spent that time talking to the kitchen and actually getting us some food.
We moved inside, turned down another pitcher of sangria and slowly started to get some food. First came the charcuterie plate, which consisted of 4 melba toasts, a few wedges of cheese, slices of some meat of the day and some sort of "rabbit rillette" that tasted like tuna. Ten minutes later, we got another dish - fries. The wait was to become the norm throughout the course of the night - one small dish every ten minutes. To be fair, the food was reasonably tasty. The chorizo/patatas bravas were great, the quail reasonably juicy, the arugula salad fresh and topped with delicious cheese. The shrimp were notably skippable.
Overall, the slow speed of food delivery/service, our out-to-lunch, or "authentic style service" server and the very small portions really killed it for us. We were getting so hungry (and as a result, cranky at portion sizes) that we had to auction off 1 small nibbet of food/person ie 1 piece of bread, 1 nut, 1 arugula leaf. Entertaining, but not filling. We all left two and a half hours after sitting down, with our pockets $35 lighter (thank god our friend had to leave and we avoided the 18% autograt on parties of 6 or more), and still very, very, very hungry.
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