“For an edgy, adventurous approach to tapas”, some reporters really rate this “narrow” and “very buzzy” Bayswater two-year-old; a few repeat-visitors, though, feel the food’s “lost a bit of its early-days pizzaz”.
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Initial impressions of this new Notting Hill/Bayswater fringe tapas bar were not especially encouraging. The restaurant was empty when we arrived for lunch. Even so, service was not particularly on...
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Press Reviews (1)
Rowan Moore (11th March 2009)
3/5 stars
This new Bayswater tapas bar offers “a judicious mixture of the familiar” with “sallies into sophistication”, says the critic. Some dishes “fell just short of the succulent taste explosions that they seemed to promise… There isn’t quite the zing of Brindisa or the assurance of Fino”. Staff, however, were “five-star”, and the menu is “not overly expensive”.
Rowan Moore (11th March 2009)
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