The best restaurants serving Spanish food in England

Celebrated a 50th birthday and we couldn’t haven’t been looked after any better by Sarah. We were a group of 13 and she kept us all fed and watered, and the restaurant provided a nice cake at the end. Cocktails were lovely, Tapas was very good, I especially enjoyed the meatballs and ham croquettes but others had their own favourites. A memorable night!

Booked for a surprise 50th birthday on 7th September at 19:30. Got there and it's closed! No email from anyone to say they were cancelling the table. Utter disbelief. Will not book here ever again.

My friend and I meet up once a month for dinner and a girls catch up. We enjoy food so pick a different restaurant each time, we’ve both been super excited about trying salty olive for ages. Based on the reviews I was expected a taste sensation, I couldn’t have been more disappointed. Firstly the staff are great, place is lovely and spotlessly clean. We also weren’t fussed about the process of going up to the counter to pick your food etc, The food. Underwhelming. Tasteless. Foods that were served cold that should only ever be served hot like tempura prawns, were just yuk! We had about 8 dishes between us and all I ate was some coleslaw that was delicious! The 2 hot dishes, were barely warm and zero taste. We were gutted and would unfortunately not return or recommend. Went to the pub and ordered some chips as I was starving!

Great evening atmosphere and friendly service. Staff were very accommodating and reasonable prices for how nice it is inside.

I’ve had some memorable banter with waiters in restaurants over the years, but “…AND DON’T EVER COME BACK, YOU RACISTS!” is unlikely to be superseded. Service was slow last night, and gradually disintegrated into full on dreadful (menus being taken away, no order being taken). Me and my husband finally placed an order, and the waitress returned five minutes later, barking with weird aggression: "no chicken, just beef or vegan." I asked for the menus again, and she walked away with a stage whisper of "JESUS CHRIST!" and rolled her eyes. So we said actually, we'll just pay for our drinks and leave, because… rude. The waitress then LOST IT: “Well, I don’t like YOUR attitude! YOU are the ones who have been rude – you’ve been REALLY CONDESCENDING.” We were taken aback, and asked politely and precisely how we had been condescending. "Hey, I GAVE you a menu!" she offered, then really went off on one. She was clearly having… a moment/meltdown. So we stood up and said that after that spectacular verbal assault, we were going immediately and weren't going to pay for the drinks either. As we headed for the door she shouted “…AND DON’T EVER COME BACK… YOU RACISTS!” So I turned back and said "WOAH!! WHAT!!?? WHAT DID YOU SAY!!?" She wouldn't say it again, and when I asked for the manager, she shouted “YOU WANT ME TO GET MY PHONE OUT AND GIVE YOU MY MANAGER’S NUMBER!? YOU REALLY THINK I’M THAT STUPID!!? GET OUT.” I have never left a restaurant actually SHAKEN. (And certainly never been called, totally randomly, racist, which was ringing in my ears for hours). I've been going to Viva Dalston for years and used to really like it. But now it will always just be The Place With THAT Waitress where THE THING HAPPENED

We were disappointed. We waited until our 'foodie' friends stayed to enjoy this 'new kind on the block' especially as it is Spanish as we both have children living in Spain. The service was bizarre. It was like we had to wait for appointed times for our menu etc. We arrived at 720 for a 730 table and no-one came to our table until 730 and then asked us if we wanted water. We then had to wait for a wine list and when we said we couldn't order the wine until we knew what we were eating there was no offer of a menu which it seems we could not get until we had ordered wine. The starters then took a long time to arrive as did the main and when we then had a wait for the dessert menu but which time it was 1015 and we had to leave for our booked taxi so we missed dessert. Maybe it is better if you go later as we noticed that later diners 'caught us up.' There was no main vegetarian course and only one starter. We had croquetas which were bland as was the Spanish omelet and the anchovy dish consisted of 8 small anchovies with no accompaniment. The main course of monkfish was overcooked and sitting on a watery bed of spinach with chewy bacon pieces and our guest's beef dish was two pieces of beef with a small dish of parmentier 'sauce'. There was no potato dish not even as a side which is strange as Spain is known for its many patatas dishes. It was expensive - £135 for two for two courses and there are many restaurants in the area which are much better value. Sadly we won't be returning. It wasn't awful enough to complain but it certainly wasn't what we thought it would be - sad that it wasn't.

Lovely tapas dinner in a nice setting Authentic Spanish tapas.Excellent food and service. Highly recommend. We will visit again.

One of my favourite restaurants in London. The staff are personable and despite being busy always make it a special place to visit. The menu delivers a high standard of Basque food. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Happened upon the restaurant by accident and glad we did. Excellent service and fantastic food! We tried several of the dishes and each one was faultless.

Disgusting overpriced and overfried croquettes, very bad and rude service ,tortilla has no salt - drinks were good though

It was a nice experience and the meat was delicious, however the bread in the baguette was dry and the customer service wasn't great - the staff member seemed a little bored and rude whilst waiting for us to order. Very expensive too. To summarise, an opportunity to try something different but wouldn't return sadly. I do feel that a slightly better experience (better quality bread and more polite staff) could have easily turned my opinion around. I hope it improves as i can definitely see the appeal and potential.

Below average for the cost. However we didn't not order tapas but ordered the meat skewers. With one chicken, one lamb and one beef. These were extremely small for the cost with each containing three small cuts of meat. The potatoes on one were 'fridge cold' same potatoes on another hot! Not worth £15 each. Venue is small and okay and staff lovely. But unlikely to go again.

A fascinating evening in the coolest place around. Live music, people having fun...it's been too long.

What a fantastic find on the mezzanine of the newly renovated market hall on a damp March afternoon in Scarborough!! A little taste of Spanish cuisine and wine in a fab venue at incredible prices with a very lovely proprietor. Whilst we didn’t have the time to do so, we loved that you can also buy excellent looking wines from the shop and enjoy in situ for only £4 corkage if you want to enjoy something different to the delicious house Rioja. If we lived in Scarborough, it would become a favourite haunt. Hope to be back again soon.

I just passed the cafe and decided to pick up a coffee, a pasteis de nata and a pain au chocolat. All seriously lovely, and as I moved to the area recently, I hope to start visiting regularly!