The best restaurants serving Mediterranean food in Market Cambridge East of England

I've been 5 times to Mercado Central. It used to be one of my favourite places to eat in Cambridge, certainly the only Spanish restaurant worth visiting. The prices went up by a lot after it appeared in the Michelin guide. I still thought "well the food is still worth it so I'll come for special occasions". Now in the last year it's all gone really bad. I just went today with a group of friends and paid north of 70 quid for mediocre and very pretentious food. Starters are okay, although for some reason they insist to put goats cheese in half of the dishes. The mains are a different story. I ordered my rib eye steak red in the middle, it came so dry and so thin it looked more like a flat iron steak. My wife ordered the fish... A couple of years ago I would've expected a nice full fish cooked in oil and garlic the Spanish way, but she got a mini piece of fish, that said, presented nicely (and as I said very pretentiously) with some lentils and red mojo sauce - another thing they put in half of the plates. On the side, I'm not sure why some of the descriptions try to use pseudo-Italian words as if they sound fancier. "Salmoretta" is not a thing, it is called "salmorreta". This is not a Spanish restaurant anymore. It's also not even a good food restaurant anymore.

The software attentive very helpful. The food was excellent. Totally recommend it would most certainly go back again. Easy to find.

I am reviewing the rooms above the bar as I stayed here to visit Cambridge. Very convenient for visiting the center. Rooms not very large, quite clean, to enter you have to enter a code twice, shared bathrooms new and reasonably clean.