We decided to come here after reading a review mentioning a dick salad. Also the prices seemed reasonable enough. And when I called to book, the guy had a Spanish accent that sounded like a matador. He ended up not looking how I expected when we got there though.
After ordering a beer and the raspberry mojito ($10 cocktails on Wednesdays) we then got off to a bad start when two of the dishes we had planned on ordering (having looked at the menu online) were not available. So we had to go off road and I went over budget!!! This is what happens when things don't go according to plan!! But then the waiter came back and said that actually one of the unavailable things is actually available and a different thing was unavailable now. Also we decided to cancel the $20 dish that consisted of 2 tacos (where the value for money at tho???)
So we ordered jamon, lamb and eggplant cigars, prawn and chorizo paella balls, and stuffed chicken wrapped in pancetta. Sounds pretty great, right? WROOOOONG.
My cocktail was amazing and my manservant manuelo enjoyed his beer.
The jamon was great, as it usually is.
But the lamb and eggplant cigars were bland,as were the prawn and chorizo paella balls.
You could smell the saffron in the aioli a little bit. I think the saltiness of the jamon ruined the very subtle flavour of the paella balls and aioli though. It tasted like NOTHING. The chicken was okay, but the flavours were pretty bland and uninspiring.
After eating the bland chicken I ate the rest of my remaining paella ball and it tasted better, I could taste a bit more of the saffron, but it was still bland.
I took advantage of the cheap cocktails though, and got the apple amazing.
It was nice and sweet and lemony, a bit too sweet, and certainly not amazing.
If we received flavourful food served by a matador, my expectations would have been exceeded. If we received flavourful food, my expectations would have been met. Sadly, I just ended up getting tipsy, which really shouldn't be a sentence that starts with "sadly". That's how disappointed I am. Also, the leopard print chairs were so gross. Like, where am I, supre??? Jesus.
(ps the service was good, no faults there.)
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