It was a super cozy and intimate place-- really not much space but the food was amazing. Typical…read moreSpanish tapas style where you order a bunch of small plates and share at the table. We ordered the cheese platter, the potatoes, grilled peppers, and gambas including the steak with chimichurri sauce that was to die for.

Excellent! The food is expertly prepared…read more Lovely wine, including the house wine. The staff is friendly & good natured. The atmosphere is very pleasant & in good weather the beer garden is large enough to seat many but not so big that it's too loud for normal conversation. The prices are really very affordable, especially for the scrumptious paella for two... actually enough for two adults & a youngster. Love this place. Great to meet friends & enjoy a relaxing evening eating & laughing together without any stress.

This was a very nice Spanish establishment. Just wanted a little breakfast snack while out touring…read more Saw the selection through the window and I decided to stop. Nice tapas and a delicious glass of sangria. Not too touristy in the tourist section near the TV tower.

Excellent tapas and very personal service. Very convivial atmosphere with many people having funread more

It's good and cool comfortable . Company should be good and…read morecooperative to have a good time

We looooove Spanish food/tapas. Great situated (not far away from the US Army Checkpoint)…read more We ordered: - sangria with red wine (7 euro) - a moscow mule (9 euro) - chipirones a la brasa (6,80 euro) - pulpo a la Parrilla-chili (7,50 euro) - tortilla de semana (5,20 euro) - iberico serrano chorizo plate (11,50 euro) Our remarks: - The sangria was tooooooo strong. Lucky me I changed the drink with my hubby. The moscow mule was very fresh and tasty. - The plate.... njammie ! - The tapas: very good. The tortilla was not our favourite (too sweet due to the use of sweet potatoes) but I guess other persons do like it. I would like to recommand this place.

I was passing by as it's located next to my hotel. I can't express how much I'm in love with this…read moreplace. I felt I was in Spain. The pulpo was amazing and the fish croquettes were Devine. The atmosphere is beautiful and the waiters are so funny they kept cracking us up laughing the whole night. So far this is the best experience I had in Berlin. The waiting was too long though but they let us wait at the bar and gave us free drink and tapas. I highly recommend this place for a great Spanish experience.

This place is mediocre. I went with a friend who had been many times and liked it a lot, but I…read morefound the service poor, the waiter rude, and the atmosphere dirty and loud. The food was good. We had a mixed salad, fried anchovies and seafood paella. The salad was average, the anchovies were perfect, the paella was a bit bland with green beans, small tasteless shrimp, four mussels and a few calamari rings. We had heard they started taking credit cards and confirmed that with the hostess when we arrived and were seated but when we went to pay the waiter said they only took cash (am bar) and gave us attitude before eventually getting the credit card reader.

You can not get 18€ for small dish of pasta when the tagliatella is not done by yourself, the…read moremushrooms are from a supermarket conserve. The "pulpo a la gallega", crunchy octopus? it had a plastic texture and the portion was really small, with potatoes overheated on the grill. But the wine selection was really good as well as the Crema Catalana / panacotta desert. Maybe i will give them another chance but i will not spend again almost 100€ for 2 people with this quality. From other side, the service and the atmosphere where very nice.

Whilst traveling Europe, I became so enthralled with Spanish Tapas, to the point where I tried to…read morefind a clutch Tapas restaurant in every city I visited. Unfortunately, many cities could not develop the full Spanish flavors I was searching for. Then I found Mariona. And I fell in love. I went there multiple times in the three times I visited Berlin. Each time, I was not disappointed. The tapas, though small dishes (priced around 8-9 Euros), were completely drenched in richness, both in flavor and textures. Particularly, their braised rabbit in apricot reduction (Summer). This dish was satisfying to the point where my Boyfriend and I returned twice within 3 days, just so we could indulge in the richness again. The chocolate and cheese dish looks deceiving, in that, at first glance, one may feel like the portion was not enough to satisfy one's appetite, but the richness was more than enough to satisfy the palette. We have this dish almost every time that it is on the menu, since it isn't restricted by the seasons. The dishes were aesthetically pleasing as well, almost too pretty to each, but who could resist, one bite in and you are sold. We would have 1-3 dishes total, and be full and satisfied. Oh heck, we were fat happy babies after each meal. The portions were perfect for the intensity of the flavors. I have to admit, we did not order the entrees, because the tapas are the star of the show at this place, and since 2 tapas plates equals the price of one entree, I felt more satisfied enjoying a variety of dishes instead of a full on plate. This seems to be a family restaurant, with simple, rustic decor, and nice service (our waiter even remembered us from a year earlier when we had come). There is a variety of wines to suit any palate. Disclaimer: the place is small and gets crowded quite fast, so making a reservation is key if you go around the peak dinner hours. Honestly, if you are looking to indulge your flavor palate with beautiful and rich flavors, this place is a hidden gem.

Quaint decor... Real candles at the tables. Was hoping for paella but they only serve a 2 person…read moreportion... So ordered a Arroz Caldoso... Rice soup in a clay pot. The seafood version had some wonderfully sweet shrimp, squid (possibly rehydrated as the color is light orange), a white fish of some sort, and copied peppers, and zucchini. It really needed more seasoning for my taste. Flavors were rather subtle.

Super crowded at Friday evening. Extremely understaffed. Did not feel welcome. Waitresses threw the…read morefood on the table and did not give us the time of day. Stressed out. Food was acceptable and tasted good. Will not go again.

Horrible horrible service. It's not worth coming here…read more Go eat at Txokoa instead. They do basque-style tapas at a similar price point with much better service. Or, nearby, there's also Picoteo, which also does more standard Spanish tapas. Bar Raval is bullshit.

Great Tapas with an innovative approach. My highlights were…read morethe Tataki de press iberica - pork (beautifully cooked), Goat cheese gratin with honey and a marmalade of tomato and herbs, Eggplant tempura with honey and the Tortilla de patatas

Great food, like in Spain. Great ambience, and our waiter, Dominick, was just awesome.read more

Schon schade wenn trotz Reservierung nur ein Mini-Bartisch frei ist. Wir kommen seit 15 Jahren…read moreregelmäßig vorbei, aber das war es dann wohl. So vergrault man Stammgäste.

We visited Bellas Artes for dinner on a recent trip to Berlin. I rarely go for Spanish food because…read morebeing from Spain, Spanish restaurant food is always a little disappointing. This was not an exception. The food was VERY salty. We ordered Jamon Serrano pata negra but they told us they didn't have it. The garlic chicken was good but not authentic Spanish style. Overall we had a lot of fun, maybe the 1/2 liter Rioja carafe helped. The waiter was from Peru and really nice so the service was good. Wish the tapas were more authentic flavors.

We ordered the Tapas para dos--actually they made it tapas para tres--a varied selection of what I…read moreassume were the best tapas the restaurant has. There were two rounds: first six (again, we were three) cold tapas, and then six hot tapas. None of them were exceptional. The service was really the worst part though. The waiters were totally inattentive and impossible to find. When called over directly, they had no choice to come over, but it was clear that they were too busy for us. I'd recommend somewhere else!

Classic Wrangelkiez - ok prices, bad everything else. And dirty. So, so filthy. Cleaning bathrooms…read moreis apparently not cool in Berlin anymore. We had a reservation, but (unsurprisingly) the place was still empty at 8pm on a Thursday. We ordered some wine which was well-priced and so-so, but the food was truly disgusting. Fishy, old-tasting, nasty shrimp. Overcooked meats floating in thick, greasy sauces. Tacky, cafeteria-like plating...just slop, basically. Luckily we had only started with a few tapas, so we escaped without much damage. Only positive: Walking distance from Bar Raval, which saved our night.

5 stars for not being perfect…read more Yes, the furniture is a bit shabby. Yes, the avocado dip for the chips has slightly too much garlic in it. Yes, you sometimes have to wait a bit before the waiter notices that you want to order another beer but all this unimportant shortcomings somehow manage to sum together into an extremely inviting, relaxed an cosy location, a location where: - you can spend a perfectly relaxed evening chatting with your friends after a stressful day - you order warm meals of the day (listed on the wall) or simple but tasty tapas (on the menu) - a trumpeter comes around to enhance the atmosphere with live sound - the staff is friendly and unobtrusive - the spirit of Kreuzberg mixes up with the feeling of Spanish siesta P.S. Opening hours of this café are a secret to me. Once I tried to visit it on Friday at half past one p.m. and it was closed but then the same evening around 8 p.m. it was open