In terms of authenticity and quality, this has been an exceptional experience…read more Food was absolutely outstanding! Service was great! Really enjoyed it!

This review started off at 4 stars but sadly the service went down hill as the meal progressed so…read morealthough I still think it's a great place my rating reflects this visit. The place does have a great Spanish feel and the staff are all Spanish adding to that authentic vibe. I ordered a small glass of Rioja which was £4.50, that sort of price is expected for good wine but this was a house Rioja and nothing special. A few of our party ordered sangria and were very complimentary about it. We all opted for the £20 deal where you get a variety of tapas followed by deserts and coffee. AMAZING value for the money. As the food started appearing our faces lit up with shear delight! Dish after dish was brought out in quick succession to the point that there was no more room on the table and we had to start filling our plates quickly to allow for more! The food was delicious and plentiful, stand out dishes for me were the Spanish sausage and giant prawns but it was all lovely. At this point I was sure this was going to be a 4 star rating. While we were still eating our mountain of tapas they started clearing our plates, including food that wasn't finished. That was the first thing that annoyed me. We then had a massive wait after the plates were all cleared away and when finally someone did arrive they were clearly having a bad night and really let it show. We were asked whether we wanted to see the desert menu and when we told the waitress we were excepting a selection of deserts as part of our meal deal, she made some snotty remark about how she was only checking as they needed to be prepared. When the deserts came they were nice, but there were 5 between 7 of us to share and my friend explained last time they'd had 4 to share between 4 of them! The food was all delicious but the service let it down. I do love El Porto and think it's great for value for money, but Bravas on whiteladies is still my fav for quality and service.

Bringing some Mediterranean warmth to Bristol city centre, this pub is to be found on the same…read morestretch of waterfront containing Mud Dock and Severn Shed. More expensive than either, it's better than the former but doesn't offer a reason not to spend less at Severn Shed. Tapas and everything else you would expect is to be found on the menu. The food's got heaps of latin flavour, and they've certainly done their best to justify their prices in this respect. Furthermore, the the warm and intimate ambience is just right for this sort of place. However, when classy Severn Shed are hawking five pound lunches a restaurant needs to have something special to charge over the odds. El Puerto doesn't unfortunately, making it somewhere to visit if you've got a hunger pang for something latin but perhaps not otherwise.

If you come here thinking Basque food, forget about it. Their menu highlights some classic Spanish…read moredishes however the execution is anything but. Everything is pre-prepared and microwaved when ordered. The atmosphere is that of a pub that happens to have food. The ladies that served us were wonderful but the food fell way short.

The best tapas I've had to date. Even better than tapas we've had in Spain. Everything was…read moredelicious but our favorites were the beet salad and wings. We came on Valentine's Day evening and thought it'd be packed but were seated right away. Service was friendly and quick. Ambiance was vibrant. Price was not cheap but fair, we paid around ~80 pounds for a pitcher, 5 dishes + dessert. Highly recommend you check it out if visiting Bath!

Seems like a good idea to bring traditional Spanish cooking over to Britain and try to keep the…read moreatmosphere and vibrancy of Spanish eateries as a priority, but this place falls flat on its face. First off, if you're in Spain (I used to live there), you'll sit outside in glorious sunshine most of the time and this place has no outside facilities at all (and it would most likely rain anyway), and second, they get the whole tapas thing wrong. It's no good charging too much for a tiny dish and suggesting that people buy five or six of these things and actually spend more than just going somewhere with a three standard courses. In Spain, you tend to grab a particular dish here, have a leisurely drink, then move on to find some more food. Having it all in one place seems wrong.

This is a nice branch of La Tasca. We had food here quite early in the evening and found the…read morerestaurant relaxing and the food was quite tasty. The only problem with chain restaurants with generic menus is they don't usually have a very authentic feel.