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A tapas bar on [[Locale Goodge Street|Goodge Street]] in [[Locale Fitzrovia|Fitzrovia]].
A tapas bar on [[Category Goodge Street|Goodge Street]] in [[Locale Fitzrovia|Fitzrovia]].
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This is a long, thin space with dark wood and extensive cabinets filled with wine bottles for atmosphere. There are large tables up the back of the room, with a bar and stools nearer the entrance. It's far more of a tapas bar than a restaurant, with food available all day. Service was mostly fine, certainly not unfriendly, and tap water was brought out in a jug, although one of the waiters took a good five or so minutes to get back to us when we asked to order more food despite there being few other people present.
This is a long, thin space with dark wood and extensive cabinets filled with wine bottles for atmosphere. There are large tables up the back of the room, with a bar and stools nearer the entrance. It's far more of a tapas bar than a restaurant, with food available all day.

A tapas bar on Goodge Street in Fitzrovia.

This is a long, thin space with dark wood and extensive cabinets filled with wine bottles for atmosphere. There are large tables up the back of the room, with a bar and stools nearer the entrance. It's far more of a tapas bar than a restaurant, with food available all day.

There's an extensive wine list where they pick out a few of their favourites by glass, as well as a notably lengthy sherry list. All the wines we tried were of a good quality.

Cured meats, cold tapas and cheese are served all day, but seafood, meat, salad and vegetables are only served from noon-3:30pm and from 5:30pm-10:30pm photo of menu in November 2009. On their Tuesday early-evening visit, Ewan and others sampled plenty of the plates and found them to be mostly of a high standard.

From the bar menu were the boquerones en vinagre (marinated anchovies, £3.50) photo and some tasty zanahorias a la Sevillana (Seville spiced carrot, £1.50) photo, fetchingly served in a decorated metal mug. From the cured meats menu, the Lomo Iberico Cebo (£4.50 for 40g) photo, Chorizo Extra Bellota (£3.50 for 50g) photo and Morcilla (£2 for 40g) photo were all fine. Empanadillas of, respectively, tuna photo and vegetables photo (£3.50 each) were both tasty, and croquetas de jamón y pollo (ham and chicken croquettes, £1.25) photo were particularly good.

When the rest of the menu became available, we ordered a few more plates. The mollejas con alcachofas (sweetbreads with artichokes, £6.50) photo were particularly tasty, but the one vegetable dish we tried, escalivada (charcoal-grilled aubergine, pepper and onion, £4.50) photo, was slightly disappointing.

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Last visited by Ewan, Kake, Sarah and Kat, 10 November 2009. Opening hours and food times taken from website, November 2009.

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