Patio Español — Restaurant in Gdansk

Paella is a big-big DISAPPOINTMENT!!! Prioritize quality over quantity!

Visit was about 1 month ago. It didn't meet my expectations. I was willing to visit this restaurant to try the dishes because of good rating, but was disappointed. Meat & cheese plates were fine, but there is no art in putting the slices on the serving board. Even this activity took more than 30 mins to wait for although the restaurant was half-empty. Assume it's because of inly 1 waiter for both patio and inside area. We've emptied 1 bottle of Cava until then and were really hungry. From the hot dishes seafood gulash was good enough. But paella was a disappointment: tried it in different places, including restaurant in spain, and even cook this dishes at home.. this paella doesn't have at least anything in common with paella. It's not saulty, extremely spicy for the dishes without special "spicy" tag, and doesn't have any fishy taste, it's not oily but quite watery. Despite the amount of seefood was ok for average portion, it was so imbalanced with the rice amount. I have an impression that seefood was cooked separately which makes the rice tasteless(but remember the ride is extremely spicy) so it's unedable. I only ate seefood and left the rest on the plate, so did my mom, and BTW also the visitors from the other tables(I paid attention afterwards). What's interesting, the water even haven't asked if it was ok or what's wrong. I would not pay for it in other case but I didn't wanted to spoil the evening with my family for our special occaision, however I won't get back to the restaurant...

A small disappointment, it would have been a 5/5 but…

A place where you can mainly have good tapas.

I went there with my partner, we ordered a table of cold tapas which were and I have to say as a Spaniard, very good, the bread very fresh and quality sausages.

We ordered a pitcher of white sangria, which was delicious but the waiter did not tell us that the price difference between a normal pitcher of sangria 1L (65PLN) and a white one is so big 110PLN.

Then we ordered a mixed paella and it was BAD, I understand that chefs want to give their touch to each type of cuisine but a paella should never be like this, it was VERY, VERY spicy, it is true that the menu says that it has spicy jalapeño but the thing is that they were not pieces, if not on the contrary all the rice was spicy, the paella was not well achieved.

A disappointment that the waiter to see that we left practically all the paella for being very spicy just told us "Next time you can ask for it less spicy" without warning us that this was extremely spicy.

We paid 260PLN for: 1 pitcher of white sangria, 1 table of tapas and 1 mixed paella (which I do not recommend).

Finally, I would recommend (although it doesn't bother me) that they play Spanish music and not salsa which is Latin, they are different things.

In short, a good place to have a snack but paellas are not their specialty, nor their way of...

Watch out, typical tourist trap practices are used here. Nowhere on the menu is there a mention that the prices listed are without tax, there is only a note about an extra charge for larger groups. Only when paying, suddenly 8 percent and several dozen zlotys are added to the price. Does the restaurant feel ashamed that it would have higher prices than the competition with tax, and is therefore concealing it? We were in Poland for a week, visiting one or two restaurants every day, and we didn't come across this practice anywhere else. No one is ashamed of prices with tax, only this particular restaurant. Only businesses in the USA. The food itself was rather average, the seafood soup was good, but the paella not so much. Paying 19 zlotys (without tax) for a bottle of water feels like...