La Tasca

In terms of the staff and look of the restaurant, I have no complaints. However, the food was DREADFUL.

We ordered the set menu of tapas favourites for 2 people. Everything tasted like it had been frozen and then microwaved to reheat. Although, when the food arrived it was tepid rather than hot. In addition, the portions were tiny. One of the chicken dishes mostly consisted of a bowl of sauce and only had 2 small pieces of chicken in it to share amongst 2 people. When we complained, we were given another bowl, again, only consisting of 2 tiny pieces. The worst of all the dishes was the meatballs. The meat was dry and a very unappealing grey colour.

I love tapas and this restaurant was a bitter disappointment.

If blame myself, i really do. I was lured in , fish hooked if you will by a 50% off coupon . I feel cheap and used and when I look in the mirror I shake my head in shame that i did it again , i ate in La tasca .

I am feeling slightly light headed however I can not decide if it is the fact I skipped breakfast (such an amateur mistake) or if the bay of microwaves hidden behind the scenes in here is slowly cooking my brain , either way I am not in good shape.

Its only one o'clock but the thought of dimming my senses with 3 or 4 jugs of sangria seems like the only way I am getting through this . I have been sent a glance from my girlfirend that has suggested she is not willing to host this plan . I order a soft drink and wait for it to arrive , it does so reasonably quickly , yet it is the wrong drink and it goes back . It's a bad omen . We order a variety of microwaved and deep fried options,like there was any other choice . The Gambas are like pink shellfish shaped bricks, the bravas are last nights left over chips from the blue lagoon smothered in a sauce of tomato ketchup and tobasco , But the star of the show for me are the meatballs, dry and quite disgusting but with an added suprise . I am chomping away at the meatball when I encounter an unknown texture .....plastic bag . I address the closes waiter and ask how and why ther is blue plastic bag in my lunch . He enquires with the kitchen , he returns to tell me that when opening a bag of meatballs the plastic bag must of made its way into the sauce .

If I was spanish I would be filing a lawsuit against La tasca for misrepresenting their cuisine so catastrophically . The whole idea behind tapas is the fresh simple nature of the dishes so buying plastic bags of meatballs just does not make sense . The next time they hand me a coupon I am going locate the nearest sombrero and eat it my hat it might as well be spanish !