I am sorry to say, I was deeply disappointed with my last visit to Tapas. On the night of my dinner, there was a moderate to small crowd but the food was slow in arriving. I ordered a steak which arrived cold and half of which was pure fat. I have eaten at Tappas before and enjoyed it, but conditions like this will quickly sour you when given the choice to return or try some place new.
I had dinner there last Saturday night, and was immediately impressed by the authentic Spanish atmosphere and the not-half-bad flamenco player. The place is suitable for casual dining, a business dinner or dating...
Service was friendly enough, with the waitresses speaking surprisingly good English. The Tapas menu is limited, especially the meat tapas. Still what we ordered was good, with the ham and cheese croquets probably being the best tasting (and most heart-arresting) pick.
The main courses offer really generous servings of meat and fish, though the good quality produce was drowned in too much gravy, and overpowering garlic. The sides of potato bravas were very good. The paella will have to wait for next time. We managed to stuff ourselv es silly, but paid the price at around RMB300 per head excluding drinks and dessert.
The wine list is quite fun for Dalian, with plenty of Spanish wines, aw well as Chilean, Italian, Australian and others. Prices are reasonable, but thevintage of the bottles in the menu does not match what they serve - so watch out! I ordered a bottle of what I thought was 1996 wine (from the label in the menu) and they gave me 2001 instead. They also opened the bottle without showing it to me first, so I didn't have the opportunity to send it back.
Despite this, probably the best environment for European food so far for me in Dalian, so I will be going back.
I think it's a very good place for a romantic dinner.The ambience is wonderful with the dimmed lights,candle lights and soft music.We've been there a couple of times and we always got the tapas.They have a big selection,all very tasty and I like the fact that most of them are good size portions which you can share with your partner.We also get Sangria which is pretty good and goes very well with tapas.And yes,the cheescake is very real and very good but they also have lots of other scrumptuos(did I spell it correct?)deserts.And they have esspresso and good coffee.Is deffinetely one of our favorite places.
Three of us packed it off to Tapas the other night, I had heard about the meat platter for two (285 RMB)that is really enough for four. Well, three of us ate it, one was a lite eater and we polished it off. It has about every kind of (US normal) meat on it your could think of and except for cutting the fat before cooking, it was great. They gave us four different sauces to dip in, two were tasteless, one was basil and one was something spicy and good.
There is a nice variety on the menu, so I'll go back and try some new things. The cheese cake is *real* cheese cake and I enjoyed that. The total bill for 3 people w/coffee and cheese cake was 550, which I thought to be a little steep.
They did a good job of trying to imitate Spanish (not Mexican) decor. They service was great, but maybe that is because we were alone there. I'll still go back and try something else.
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