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    Ambiente Tapas

    4.4 (32 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups

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    bottle of sherry, free because we made reservations via the Abbey Guest House
    Beth C.

    We had never had tapas before, but the staff here was fantastic, guiding us and offering useful recommendations all the while. I won't list everything we tried, but my favorites were queso de cabra (soft, warm goat cheese with a divine cloud in a crisp shell) and gambas al ajillo (prawns in garlic oil served with pillowy focaccia). Our b&b had a deal with Ambiente that earned us a free bottle of Tio Pepe sherry, which was good, rather like white wine. But I had never had quality sherry before and was left curious for more. Emma, our server, pointed me towards their No. 7 sherry flight since I asked about sweet sherry. WOW. This blew my mind. I loved all three, but I really must find Pedro Ximenez must find back home in America. Many thanks to Ambiente for making our first tapas experience so grand!

    Janice J.

    I really enjoyed the variety and number of vegetarian options. The portions were a good size. I got the lunch special which is only valid on weekdays. It's three dishes for 10.45 GBP. It was very filling. I got the vegetable paella, patatas bravas and black bean fritter. The paella didn't have as much spice as the ones that I've had in Spain but it was delicious. This is a great place to catch up with a friend or even a date night. Only complaint is that service was a little slow.

    Neha G.

    The portion size were decent enough for us to order four dishes between the two of us. They had decent vegetarian options. Potato Bravas and the green beans were really good. Appetizers were a-okay.

    Penny L.

    After spending the weekend for a Vintage festival we decided to grab some dinner before hitting the train. A few places I knew had closed so after settling on tapas this was one of first to pop up. It's about 17minutes from​ the train station. When we entered on the Sunday it was quite busy. We were greeted swiftly and asked to wait 5 minutes at a barrel shaped table before being seated. This place was huge! With tables that looked like they had been rustically cut up by a tree surgeon, several entire slivers of polished trunk and benches lay in rows for large groups where smaller tables were dotted around the windows. Taking a window seat we were asked what we would like to drink immediately. Caught off guard I chose the recommended gin and my friend a ginger and whiskey. The waiter promised that if the ginger was not fiery enough we could have it for free! The menu contained the usual tapas food, croquettes, prawns, octopus, salads, meats, other fish, bread and oil and paella. The waiter recommended 3 plates each which cost between £5-7. We decided on the cheese and ham croquettes, octopus and potatoes, spicy halibut in batter, pork belly, prawns in garlic, potatoes bravas, and fried chicken. Everything came out at a good pace and every dish was well presented and tasty especially with a glass of red wine! The best dish had to be the pork belly the weakest the halibut..it lacked seasoning. The best value for money was the octopus. Overall the service was good, lovely ambiance, reasonably priced and good food!

    Laura F.

    An excellent tapas place, we fell across this restaurant looking for somewhere to enjoy a nice lunch in York. Very welcoming, the staff are great and very helpful when it comes to deciding how many tapas dishes will be enough between two. There's a huge amount of variation between hot and cold tapas dishes on their menu, plus some specials. Definitely recommend Ambiente Tapas!!

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    The food was good and well priced. Service was OK but slow. we enjoyed the ambience and it wasn't too loud.

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    Excellent food!!! You will not be sorry. Everything we had was amazing. Service was spectacular!

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    Decent tapas although possibly a bit stingy, cheese platter only came with a small roll. Food was really good though.

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    The presentation of all the dishes was lovely. The staff was warm and the food was great.

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    Good ambience and service, however the dishes were heavier and saltier than we were expecting for Spanish-style tapas.

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    Wow, great call on last day of Morris Rugby RWC, paella, tapas and so much more. 5 happy people after this meal.

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    Review Highlights - Ambiente Tapas

    We ordered Dates wrapped in Serrano ham, golden beef empanadas, lightly battered calamari, delicious shrimp, and chorizo y patatas in a delicious wine sauce.

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    La Tasca

    La Tasca

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    I visited La Tasca York a few months ago and was very…read moreimpressed with the experience. Me and my friend were seated quickly upon arrival, the staff were friendly, and the atmosphere was relaxed. We ordered a few Tapas dishes each, and every single one we had was very tasty. My favourite was the potato gratin which was made with blue cheese and spinach. It can work out a little expensive by the time you've chosen a few dishes but over all I can't really complain as the food was delicious and the staff were lovely.

    This review forms the third of my gluten-free-in-York trifecta…read more Or is it a hat trick? Maybe it's York's hat trick of gluten-free options. I'm thinking new Yelp list now. Anyway...yeah. La Tasca. It's good. And for you sufferers of coeliac disease, this is your kind of place. All menu items are very clearly labeled if they are gluten-free options. We found the staff here very helpful, knowledgeable, and more than willing to chase down ingredient lists if they weren't sure the answer. La Tasca is trying to be a tapas-Spanish kind of restaurant, but with a sound track suffers a bit from an identity crisis. There was some flamenco, but I'm certain I heard Mariachi, Samba, Tango, and bizarrely, Regaetón. Upon asking the mostly-Spanish staff about this, they chuckled, and shrugged. "Sí..." After all, the food, to be honest, is so-so. The paella wasn't bad, but it wasn't the Calle de Otumba in Valencia. But there's enough good, that I can still recommend it. And we'll be back, because, when you gotta eat gluten-free, you can't be too choosy, can you. One cool extra is their online reservation system, which will text your confirmation to your mobile.

    All Bar One

    All Bar One

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    I've had a decent experience here in the past, with a few wins amongst misses, but my last trip…read morereally put me off a bit. First the good... typically friendly staff with quite a large and clean establishment. I've also had a few of the tapas type dishes that weren't bad, and in the past even enjoyed some although I would struggle to recall what they were exactly... I just know I haven't always been as disappointed as my last visit, but I've also never had that "must be back for X" experience either. For my recent visit I had the Szechuan Coated Crispy Calamari as a starter... they were of the strip variety and actually looked quite seasoned and good, sadly the taste didn't live up to the look of it... they weren't actually bad, but not as good as they had appeared. For the main I had the All Bar One Pad Thai with Prawns, which I hesitate to say is the worst Pad Thai I've probably ever had... to the point I wondered if there was a mix-up and they had given me some kind of stir fry instead... I didn't expect it to be great, given it's not a Thai restaurant, but I was a bit taken about by how bad it was. The two courses for £10 during some of the week is a bit misleading as well as most dishes are only at this price for the vegetable variety... because we had prawns with our Pad Thai it actually cost each of us £14 instead of £10... just adding insult to injury given the state of the Pad Thai. The few drinks I had follow the same line as the Calamari... not necessarily bad, but no real winners as well. I tend to really like Caipirinhas, which aren't too hard to make given their limited ingredients, but it is a drink that falters with the use of sugar syrup over actual sugar... you may not notice if you haven't had a proper one, but it missed the mark a bit as did a few of the other cocktails I tried. To be fair they did turn me on to G&Tea a while back... if you're a Gin and Tonic fan it's worth giving these a go... they have special tea bags of various flavours from Bombay Sapphire that they steep in the gin before making it into a rather tasty spin on the classic Gin and Tonic, served in a cool glass as well... on next visit I'm definitely going back to these versus the other cocktails and have even started making my own variation at home. Another plus point would be that one of our friends had the Burger with Chips and Calamari appetiser for an actual £10... I tried a few chips and a bit of the burger and have to say both were quite good and miles above our £14 selection form the £10 menu, so if burgers don't put you off it may be worth checking them out if you find yourself here for dinner at some point. I'm sure I'll be back with friends at their suggesting, and will hopefully find cause to throw in an extra star, but it's just not somewhere I would seek out at the moment unless you have a medium sized group and are looking to squeeze in somewhere.

    mid april 2018 Had 2 great breakfasts here all the ingredients for a full English were superb I…read moremean superb the bacon was griddled and it was so thick and tasty eggs were poached to perfection I know its only a full English but it was very good coffee was up to snuff as well loved it

    Ambiente Tapas - tapas - Updated May 2026

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