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| - ambiance: beautiful moorish archways inside, gorgeous al fresco dining, they had a guitarist there who was great, on saturdays they have flamenco performances (i was there on a sunday)
service: ok, they had a lot of new servers, they are dressed like they are about to run with the bulls!
I gave them 2 stars for ambiance
If you like their food, then you don't know what authentic yummy tapas are supposed to taste like
but when i go out to eat tapas, I expect something better than my home cooking.
I knew after I looked at their extensive menu that they food would be so-so, reheated, or something like that. How could restaurant have all those choices, with foods that require lengthy preparation, and the restaurant was only 1/4 full on a sunday.
Highlights:
free bread: pan de sal, rolls served with garlic sauce (or what they call aioli). they garlic sauce was yum....but when the dishes started to come out...i was disappointed...they all had the same garlic aoili
I typically order the following tapas at each tapas restaurant I try out to see how each one compares to each other, i've toured spain and ate a tons of tapas places so I know how it should taste:
1) Tortilla espanola
2) Patatas Bravas
3) Pan tomate
4) Paella Valenciana
5) Red Sangria
6) Croquettas (if they are on the menu, very few restaurants serve these)
7) Sepia(cuttlefish)/Calamares (squid)/ or Pulpo (octopus) a la Plancha
I didn't end up ordering the pan tomate or the tortilla espanola this time. They didn't have a "---" a la plancha on the menu either.. Duh, becuase in order to serve seafood a la plancha it has to be fresh and everything here tasted reheated.
We ordered:
1) patatas bravas: tasted/looked like KFC potato wedges with La Tapatia sauce. Don't get me wrong, they still tasted decent but they were not authentic
2) fried artichoke with aoili: luke warm brined artichoke with beer batter lying in a puddle of the garlic aoili suace (yes, the same one that was served with bread)
3) escargot: basically your average canned escargot in garlic/parsley sauce with drizzles of garlic aoili suace (yes, the same one served with the bread), this tasted good, but when does escargot in garlic butter not tasted good?
4) Paella Valenciana: they did not use paella rice, they had too much green bell pepper saute on it, the chorizo? i thought it was cut up vienna sausage at first, but it was chorizo, just in miniature form, they should have just minced it, the rice was more like a stew because there was tons of broth left in the pan, so no burnt soccarrat at the bottom to enjoy, you could tell the rice was blanced earlier and then tossed together with the ingredients in a pot then placed in the paella pan for service...don't bother ordering this if you like paella...it will just piss you off..and where was the saffron essence?
5) ham & cheese croquettas: 3 luke warm croquettas lying in a puddle of the garlic aoili suaces, again: they inside should melt out of the crispy breading, but because it wasnt' hot enough or because the filling was made with too much flour, it didn't
Definitely DO NOT ORDER:
Sauteed mushrooms: it only took them 3 min to bring it out after we ordered them, they were soooo grey and nasty. I couldn't eat another bite! they were only warmed through...ugh yuck!
Stuffed squid braised with squid ink: i've had a version of this tapa several times so I know this stuff had to be good. Wrong. The squid stuffing was luke warm in the middle. The ink sauce was missing something, it was heavily diluted with the flavor of chicken bouillion cube broth.
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