The best restaurants serving Spanish food in Caledonian Islington London

We visited Bar Rioja on a Saturday evening. The venue itself is lovely, small cosy and intimate. The young lady serving us was great, very friendly and and had good knowledge of the wines. Unfortunately the food was a complete disappointment. We ordered 5/6 different tapas dishes. The croquettes were cold, the pork dish had a hard stone in it which could have been either an olive stone or a peice of bone, I was lucky to not chip a tooth on it. All of the food was under seasoned, bland and luke warm at best. We ate it anyway, as we wanted to stay at the venue to try the extensive wine list. We stayed and tried 7/8 different wines which were all nice, but didn't make up for the poor food. All of the food was added to the bill, dispite us flagging the cold food / bone in the pork being flagged to the staff.

Lovely wine but the food was very underwhelming and expensive . For example the patatas bravas looked like frozen potato cubes with a blob of sauce. The croquetas were decent

We were staying just around the corner and called here for dinner. The restaurant was very busy and as we had not booked we were offered either a seat at the bar or in one of the other small rooms, which is what we chose. The tapas was delicious and the service was excellent and all the staff were very friendly. Would definitely return