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| - I was super excited to go. So many people told me this was an amazing place that I was very excited to go and give a try.
So, if I understand correctly, this is a Spanish restaurant. Having visited Spain on many occasions, I am expecting to have a convivial environment, a good slow-priced food in small portions. What we basically call "tapas". I am expecting to have good house wine and Sangria.
So, I came, ordered the Patatas Bravas, which is the basic tapas. I ordered the lomo, another basic. And I ordered another dish that consists on a spread on a toast. There is an obvious effort to make the food nice. But the portion are ridiculously small (a toast is the size of a cracker - no kidding!) and the effort to make the food tasty ends up in an overdose of salt. After that, I ordered the salad and the lamb meatballs. Same thing: really small portions and too much salt.
With four glasses of house wine (you have to eat the Spanish way, right?), the check was $72 ... and I was still hungry after that.
Spanish food is basic, good, cheap, accessible. Morcilla fails at all of this. Morcilla falls in the same trap than almost all french restaurant in the USA: they are trying to overdo things and just do not respect the basics.
A real disappointment to me.
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