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| - This popular place gets a lot of good reviews...I just can't second them for my own experience...They do seem to try to make it an experience...for us, ok, but not great. High energy/noise level...more so from the hyped-up waiters than from excited diners. Service was just ok...seated promptly at our reservation time, but with no wine menu...maybe we looked too baptist..but had to get up and go ask for the wine menu. Decent house salad..mine came with a half slice of tomato too. Come on, for a three-figure meal, you gotta serve at least the whole slice of tomato. But the house dressing is excellent. Salad served before our appetizer...we would have preferred it the other way. Fried Calamari was good, as well as our entrees of veal and the Chilean Sea Bass special...Tiramisu was very good as well. But overall, nothing really knocks your socks off here while, for the prices, you would expect more. But it is an experience, and the Spanish/Portuguese menu is different. Lots of folks use it for special occasions. For me a little better than average, but to say very good is a bit of a stretch for my experience. For an expensive night out, there's better choices...But if you're really craving Paella and Spanish cooking, it's good, just not outstanding/great.
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