ate: iberico platter, fried asparagus with egg and manchego, and prawns in chilli and garlic (supposed to be al pil-pil really!)
drank: £17.50 red wine (can’t remeber the name) and it was just not nice at all.
rating: the platter was good but it doesn’t really take a chef to order good charcuterie, slice it and present it on a plate. I could go on and rant about the description of the meats… come on at least give us the region the type of cut etc if you are going to charge £20 for a plate of serrano! the asparagus was quite tasty but this is not tapas this is a dish (as are most of the so called tapas on the menu). as to the prawns you could taste the burnt oil and burnt garlic and again, its not particulary hard to make good gambas- olive oil, garlic, chilli a little salt and heat the crap out of it!
overall i’d rate this restaurant as an overly expensive fake spanish with the ability to pick out what they have been told are good cured meats and attempt to overuse a brand in their favour.
