Kind of a milestone for Grupo La Única, with restaurants in Colombia and Mexico, to open a restaurant in Madrid, a city with an incredibly diverse and competitive ecosystem of culinary practices of astonishing quality.
The food is good. Delicious and quite refined. Not very original though; but worthy the effort. The service is good, though a bit hesitant between a Michelin star service or an informal one. At moments seems quite formal, and then the waiter acts as totally informal. Not necessarily bad, but definitively unusual.
The decoration is not good. Quite cliche, and in a way very pretentious and cheap. But what really does not work is that after 11 pm, the lowest part is run like a club-like bar; with loud music and conservative looking middle-age people drinking in the bar. Immediately this makes it annoying to be there having dinner. Impossible to maintain a conversation.
Seems to me that there is a series of unresolved identity issues in this place. Restaurant vs. dive bar; formal vs taberna-like restaurant; refined and cosmopolitan vs cliché. Hope the owners can figure out what this establishment really is. read more