Barcelona Tapas Bar Restaurant — Restaurant in Berlin

The service was slow, and I felt like the staff were very rude. For example: nobody even came by to ask if I wanted a second glass of wine. (which is weird, since restaurants are generally very happy to sell a second or third glass of wine) Nor did the other patrons seem to be having this problem. Next time I visit Berlin, I will avoid this restaurant.

Note: according to the email I just got from Google, it appears the owner of the restaurant is now trying to remove my review because it violates his "rights." (Keep in mind I had to translate it, so who knows how accurate that is) Regardless, this is a weird situation that only furthers my negative impression of this restaurant. I've edited my review to add additional clarity. This owner could have easily replied to the review, tried to make it right, or taken other actions that are normal for restaurant owners as they try to repair negative impressions and improve those situations. Instead, they file a nonsense complaint to Google? Make of that what you will. Regardless, deleting negative reviews doesn't fix the problems that lead to...

Loved Germany, but we are not fans of sausages. After more than a week of French fries and beer (I’m not usually a beer fan, but it was pretty great during Oktoberfest), I craved something more. I found this restaurant located just a few blocks from our hotel, and could see online that they were open late and had reservations available. We walked in and asked to be seated. We were seated in the very front of the restaurant with 4-5 other tables. It felt like a very intimate dining room. We asked (the manager? the owner?) for advice on which paella to order. He recommended the one with chicken and seafood. We then asked for advice on a compatible Spanish white. We went with his recommendations for both, added a garlic mushroom appetizer, and had the most amazing meal. The hospitality was wonderful. The paella was better than we had in Barcelona a year ago, and way WAY better than we recently had here in San Diego. The wine was perfect with it, and it was the best food we’d had in Berlin....

As described in other reviews, the tapas are great - best manchego I have had outside of Spain in a long time - but the service leaves a lot to be desired. The main dishes are also quite tasteless.

After ordering a bottle of wine, I saw the waitress walk to the fridge, grab an open bottle, pull the push down cork, and push a real cork embedded into a corkscrew as if to show the bottle had just been opened. This is simply borderline fraudulent. We then had a discussion about it where she told me they don’t have that bottle, before the barman actually brought one to me and opened it in front of us.

I live around the corner, I spoke Spanish to the staff and was still treated like a gullible tourist because this is what is expected. This establishment...