La Oliva — Restaurant in Tokyo

A decent restaurant, but what other reviews say about the wait time for food and drinks is absolutely true. The place itself is quite small, with about five tables of varying sizes. Even if only one or two are occupied, your drinks will take 10–15 minutes to arrive, and food can take anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the dish. Maybe they have their reasons, but that’s just how it is. If you're here to relax and take your time, it’s not a big deal. But if you’re looking for a quick meal, you might be disappointed.

The restaurant specializes in Spanish cuisine, offering various tapas, olives 🫒, jamón 🥓, Spanish salads 🥗, and paella 🥘. To be honest, the food was decent, but not enough to make me want to come back. The jamón was clearly store-bought and not freshly sliced from the leg. If you order bread 🥖, they’ll give you two tiny pieces, barely enough to pair with anything.

The vegetable salad 🥗 was quite good, though mainly because of its anchovy-based dressing. The paella with 2 big shrimps 🦐 was also decent. The lemon sour 🍋 tasted good but came in a very...

Food is amazing. Atmosphere is too. Staff is very polite and helpful, that know everything about their food and drinks. Can help to choose wine.

I gave 4 starts because we waited 40+ minutes to get food (it was 30 or so guests and only two people running the restaurant). One dish never came. Only one person was able to order coffee (they run out of it?) and it was just instant coffee. Cheesecakes ended too fast as well. I think you should hire more people to help with cooking. I'd like to come again in...

All of our Tapas came promptly, warm and tasting delicious. I like particularly their squid ink paella. Their Basque burnt cheesecake was good too. It is so popular recently and I wanted to try it. The cheesecake was creamy and delicious. It’s lighter than traditional cheesecake. They mainly used Gorgonzola for it and it was little bit too rich and strong flavor for me. But still I like it. Wine, however, didn’t grab my attention as much as the food did. Stuff were very nice...