Tapas Valencia in Bath and North East Somerset

Excellent, authentic, and delicious food. We visited as a family this evening. We had amazing meats, cheese, patatas bravas, squid ink salted cod, bread, and olives. So authentically Spanish. Cava was good, churros delicious and excellent, friendly service. Thank you.

Met up with friends for a get-together and had wanted to try La Perla. We really wish we had booked somewhere else; it was so bad. You could tell they were seriously short-staffed, but there are ways of doing things in this situation. Drinks arrived after the food started coming out, which was nearly an hour after our arrival. Some of our group had food, some didn't get any until after those dishes had long been eaten. Duplicate dishes came out, and some dishes didn't come at all. There was no offer of dessert; the kitchen just turned the lights off. There were no extra rounds of drinks and no offer of a discount or complimentary drinks for such a bad experience. Regarding the food that we ate, the bravas were too smoky with smoked paprika for my liking. The garlic prawns were not as punchy as we have in Spain, and they don't come with bread so you can't mop up the juice. The calamari needs some alioli served with it. The Iberico with chestnut and blue cheese was nice, but at £15 it's on the pricey side, especially since I wasn't expecting the pork to be served so rare (although I know this is how it can be served). We all wanted to try the paella but were informed it would be over an hour's wait. At least we may have all eaten together if we had ordered it. We will be back to sample the paella, but hopefully the service will be better on a midweek night.