Restaurant Tacite — Restaurant in Amsterdam

The place itself looks good and 'gezellig', there's a nice ambiance. However, as a Spanish person I am, I can quite easily perceive when a dish is cooked in the Spanish way. This was not the case with Cavataria's food: First, pan con tomate served with alioli. I would expect grated tomato in the Spanish way but instead it's tomato chunks with some seasoning. The alioli is good though, but it's a very small portion for 4-5 euros. Then, champiñones al ajillo. Again, super small portion for 6.5€ and, even if they taste good, it's not in the Spanish way (you usually see abundant oil with pieces of garlic). After that, tortilla de patata. This was the biggest disappointment. It wasn't cooked in the Spanish way at all and it didn't taste like anything: no salt and weird texture. Finally, patatas bravas, again salsa brava didn't taste like it at all and usually these patatas are cut much thicker (a fast google search can show you). Also, the personnel knows 0 Spanish and the waitress confirmed the owners are not Spanish, the cooks are not either. I'm happy to see appreciation for Spanish food around the world, but please put more effort or hire someone Spanish to show you the good way! Finally, the music is not Spanish, but Latin American, which is great but again I would expect some flamenco or traditional...

Lovely place, with both a large room inside furnished with style, and a great dehor to fully enjoy the summer evenings. Great service, with the waiters really nice and not too much waiting time to be served food and drinks. The menu has some options to choose from, not too many to be fair, but enough to have a good meal with spanish specialties. We have been there for dinner, we had a spot inside (lovely atmosphere all over the place), had sangria and a cava-sangria and a selection of different tapas: pimiento del padron, champignones, jamon serrano and the croqueta de chorizo, gambas and patatas bravas. All of these with a few glasses of red wine. Great food, very nice dinner, overall bill of 90 euro (for 2 people), we are going to be...

The food was generally good, although the portions small, so make sure to order a bit more.

However, we ordered Jamon Iberico Bellota, because I'm a massive fan of Bellota, and we got brought Jamon Serrano (or Prosciutto di Parma) - there is a BIG difference in taste between these two quality of hams. So this restaurant is either lying about their Jamon Bellota or the waitress was clueless. I believe it was the prior. I know it's a small thing, but it's never fun having an establishment take advantage of you.

So in conclusion, it's fine to come to this restaurant, but dont order the Jamon Iberico de Bellota because they're...