L'Oca Giuliva is okay. Yes just okay. Actually it is a TTT restaurant (tourist trap type) trying to…read moredisguise itself as an authentic Italian. We should have known better as the location screamed "come on in to a charmingly decorated restaurant and pay outrageous prices for a pretend authentic Italian meal". Oh well, our fault. We were short of time as we were catching our train for a five hour journey. Obviously planning on a satisfying meal for lunch. Service was just that. Service. No big smiles welcoming us in. No friendly greeting. No explanation of the menu. No suggestions. Though the interior had only three tables occupied and one table occupied outdoors, we definitely did not feel like we were treated as guests who would be spending 60€ for lunch (food only, no beer or wine). Not that the food was real bad but so many things were lacking to make it even good. First off, they plop a small paper sack of two hard as a rock bread rolls in frint of you. No explanation. Drop and go. Yep, remember its not free. This practice sucks and should be illegal. You will pay 3,80€ to gnaw on stale bread while hoping you don't break a tooth or make the roof of your mouth raw. I know, it was our choice to go ahead and eat it, but since we had decided to have only one meal today, we were very hungry by 13:30h. I had no idea it would cost 3,80€. At most this day old should cost 1,50€, no actually it should be free! You are also served a few black olives (strange as in Italy I have only been served green). Olive oil, wine vinegar and salt & pepper was on the table. Good thing for the oil since soaking the stale bread in the oil helped us swallow. But...wine vinegar? At an Italian restaurant?? Where is the balsamic? Strange. Our starter was the Caprese Salad. In my attached photo, I actually 'dressed it up' on my own with oil, vinegar, salt & pepper. Oh my. Look at this. For 15,90€ we got a PLAIN sliced not ripe flavorless tomato and a round of simple mozzarella cheese with a decortive teeny sprig of basil. How pathetic! What would this cost you at the local Consum grocery?? Possibly 1,20€ for two tomatoes (though this was most likely only one and a half tomatoes) and 3,50€ for a ball of mozzarella. Not even quality Burrata cheese!! No flavor. No basil. No herbs. No pesto. No balsalmic reduction. No SOMETHING to enhance the empty flavor. And the price. Oh my. For our mains, we both chose off the 'fresh pasta' menu. Again this is PASTA and each dish was quite pricey. Mine was the Tagliatelle Tartufo. Not even FRESH mushrooms. Really. Canned mushy 'shrooms were stirred into my pasta with maybe a bit of truffle oil to pretend to taste like truffles. No shaved truffles. No truffle flakes. No offer of Parmigiano cheese - which is always offered on a pasta dish. No one ever came by to offer any shaved cheese. No twirling spoon. How is this an ITALIAN restaurant??? And the price? For a fist size portion...16,50€. YIKES! Husband ordered the Ravioli Pecorino Pere. At least it was flavorful with the butter and thyme sauce. But the pear stuffing was very limited. These were the flatest - or least filled ravioli we have ever seen. An easy way to stretch their costs but still offer the dish. This cost, crazy at 16,90€ Bottom line, this is more like a VERY overpriced fast food Italian. They are definitely not using Nonna's old original recipes. L'Oca Giuliva is here in the tourist trap area of Seville to do just that. TRAP you into paying absolute crazy high prices then having the nerve upon checkout with the credit card reader to ask for a tip to be added to your tab. Come on. This is Spain. Tipping culture doesn't work like that. It is not a requirement!!! We leave a few Euros IF we feel service/food/experience was exceptional. Our experience was none of these. (And I do know this as I am a permanent resident of Spain since 2018. Please don't TRAP your guests like this. Simply stop!) Visit was Thursday January 16, 2025 at 13:30h

Seville is such a charming place. The restaurant is located in a great location within the center…read moreof the city. We made reservations in advance and arrived early. You definitely want to RSVP in advance. We saw multiple people being turned away, as they were fully booked. The all white theme decor was cute and instagram-able. We shared a few dishes to get our hands on their best dishes. The Mortadella Pistachio Pizza was outstanding. Fiordilatte, pistachio cream, bologna mortadella, provolone and ricotta. We balanced out the pizza, with the Natural Salad, young sprouts, Burgos cheese, blueberries, raisins, almonds, pistachios, sunflower seeds. Make a Resy, get there early, and enjoy a nice walk to and from your hotel.

CLOSED MONDAYS…read more Indoor / outdoor dining, as with most Spanish tapas bars. Located adjacent to the Plaza del Punto in Huelva. We were in Huelva on a Sunday evening, and many other restaurants were closed, or serving very limited menus, so we were lucky and grateful to find Los Tientos. Our server was extremely friendly, and answered all our questions, and gave us recommendations from the menu. They had specials too, but this time we stuck with the standard offerings. 4 tapas were under 25€, which was a very good value for their quality. All of the food was prepared with beautiful presentation. The cheese round with carmelized onions, orange marmalade, and raspberry with raisins, was extremely good. The server confirmed it was goat cheese (not specified on the menu). The cheese round was crispy but soft, not dried out. The eggplant sticks were the one disappointing dish. We had had eggplant-based tapas at a number of restaurants in Spain, and it was always very flavorful and well-executed. These battered, fried, sticks of eggplant were pretty flavorless, and while the honey and balsamic sauces helped, they were only just to mask the fact that the meat of the dish itself was extremely bland and unappetizing. Very let down by this one. My husband had the Hake gratin with garlic mayo and tomato marmelade. He was surprised at how the mild whitefish taste allowed the herbs to give it so much flavor. He said it was cooked very nicely, with a tender but flakey texture. My absolute favorite was the Salmorejo, a tomato soup exploding with flavor. The tomato, of course, had a very robust, perfect flavor, mixed with a lot of herb emphasis, and just made a delicious soup. I could have ordered two more servings, and I am craving it now as I write this, it was just that good! Even the egg garnish added to the overall taste. Overall, it was a very good meal, and we were pleased with stumbling upon this place in Huelva, on our way to Portugal. * * * TIP * * * Note that they prefer cash, but were able to take our credit card when they saw we wanted to tip. ;-) * * * TIP * * * They charge for bread on the table.