El Sabor
Merchant City
- Food served: Sun-Thu noon-10pm; Fri/Sat noon-11pm
- Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access
- Open since: 2000
- Average price 2 courses: £16
- House wine: £11.95 per bottle
The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008 is now in the shops. This review is taken from the 2007 edition.
One of the original tenants in the redeveloped Fruitmarket, AKA the Merchant Square, El Sabor is a popular place for tapas, wines and jugs of sangria. The name means 'flavour' in Spanish and the menu has some 30 different options. In addition to seating in the bright diner, with a mezzanine level, tables also spill into the covered courtyard adjacent to O'Neill's Irish theme pub - certifying the cosmopolitan credentials of this bit of the Merchant City. [Not recently visited.]
Comments
- 1. JR, El Sabor – 7 March 2008, 1:50pmReport
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Had a true shocker of a Sunday lunchtime tapas and will not be going back. Some of it was inedible and the rest consisted mostly of grease and shredded lettuce to bulk out the dishes.
Very , very poor. - 2. Katie D, El Sabor - 24.05.08 – 26 May 2008, 6:14pmReport
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We were there on Sat night. It was absolutely terrible! The food looked as it tasted - disgusting! It was pretty clear to us that the food wasnt fresh and it wouldnt surprise me if the meals were reheats in the microwave! We stayed less than an hour and in that time four bowls of food returned to the kitchen! This poor quality isnt what you expect from a restruant in Merchant Sq! The female staff were v.unpleasent. The loud dance music which boomed didnt fit in to the setting. Bad choice! I will never dine here again.
- 3. Jo, El Sabor – 17 August 2008, 6:43pmReport
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I had been to El Sabor a few times before and quite liked it. Went for Sunday lunch today and was sorely disappointed. Food wasnt great and lukewarm but the real shocker was the service. Unfriendly, incompetent staff who dont care and then have the cheek to charge 10% service charge. I've never agreed with this practice anyway (apart from with very large tables/groups), surely its up to me to decide if the experience merits a tip? In this instance it certainly didnt. Never to return.
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