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| - Disappointing. All told, none of the tapas plates were that good. Most were either boring or a little too salty. While nothing was too terrible (except for the special of the night), none of the ingredients seemed to really go together exactly right. Most dishes came with 3 pieces of the tapas - I think I would have preferred a lower price for 2 pieces or higher for 4 (and yes, I understand tapas means "small plates"!) We will not be planning a return trip in the near future unless I hear some new raving reviews or they change their menu around.
My bf and I went to V. Picasso on a Saturday night. We were really excited to try this place! The night started out with a moderately long wait for our waitress. Once she arrived, she could not even tell us what the specials were and practically forgot them again when she came back to us after reading them - but we were fine with it.
We ordered 8 tapas plates. First out was the free cream of zucchini soup - yay - I love free anything! It was pretty good. We also each had a red sangria which we found tasty. The night was off to a pretty good start...until the food we ordered started to arrive. I'm trying to remember everything we had:
Jerk Rubbed Duck (The Special of the Day) - Most disappointing of all. We actually had this one second to last but since it was pretty terrible, I thought I'd review it first. When something is on special, I would hope that it would at least be ok...but not this time. We received 4 or 5 quarter size pieces of duck, each with a large rim of fat around it. There was no jerk-rubbed taste, probably because the pieces were too small to get anything on them. Waste of $8.
Salt Cod Fritters - Alright. Too salty.
Marinated Olives - Blah, they seemed like they were just olives out of the jar with no special marinade, and they weren't served with any bread or anything. (A previous reviewer mentioned them being marinated with manchego - ours were unfortunately not done that way.) Very salty.
Gambas al mole - I enjoyed the shrimp themselves, but I was not impressed with the mole or the corn puree in the dish. Both were boring. The mole was spicy, but there wasn't much of a taste to it.
Grilled zucchini with honey, etc. - This was good, but I felt like another veggie with more flavor would have made the dish even better. Nonetheless, I liked the goat cheese and honey taste. (Although this dish now looks different than the picture that another reviewer provided.)
Chorizo con Huevos - This dish was one egg on top of three pieces of bread with a sweetish tomato sauce/paste with chorizo chopped into it. The chorizo was very disappointing - it tasted like chopped up hillshire farm sausage, with no spice to it. My bf kept questioning whether it was really chorizo. The tomato paste on the bread was actually nice...but the dish itself just did not seem like it went together well.
Patatas Bravas - Alright, they were just lightly fried cut up potatos with a spicy sauce. Salty again. Easy to make on your own.
Churros with chocolate sauce - I liked this, because who can really argue with cinnamon-sugar covered fried dough with chocolate sauce!? However, one of the three churros sticks was not fully cooked inside.
We left disappointed and unsatisfied with our meal.
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