Bodega Sepúlveda — Restaurant in Barcelona

A few weeks ago, my wife came back from a work lunch talking about a great tomato salad she had at Bodega Sapúlveda. The tomatoes were like the ones we used to eat when we were young... she almost was obsessed with that salad! So a few days after that, while I was looking for a place to have lunch with a group of friends, she suggested we try it out again. You can imagine how high my expectations were! We were 7 and, for some reason, Google maps wouldn't allow me to book for more than 6. So I wrote a comment that we would be 7 in the note field of the booking form. When we arrived, the note hadn't been transferred: technical issue, that can happen. Well, according to the manager there, I was lying and I had never put a note. 🤬 And apparently, accommodating 5 adults + 2 5-year-old, instead of 6 adults she thought we were, was hell for her. She repeated so many times! We felt so unwelcome that we almost left. 😡 Anyway, they ended up finding a table for us and we ordered lots of typical Spanish dishes and the famous salad. Apart from the white beans and the snails, which really were excellent, the rest was neutral... ALL the rest, including the tomatoes! 😤 (it's not me, my wife confirmed). The service at the table was good in general, except they never changed our plates so we ended up eating blood sausage in tuna oil... 🥴 Well, I thought the service was ok until, a few minutes after leaving, I checked the bill and realized that they had charged us for 6 shares of pa amb tomàquet: €20 in total! Here's what happened at the table: the waiter offered bread to eat with the ham and we said yes. Then he came back and offered some more bread and we said yes again. I didn't ask for 6 shares!!!!! He should have asked because for €3+ per share, I would have never accepted it. That simply is unacceptable. Such a bad experience! 😱

Quality & taste: 7/10 Quantities: 8/10 Atmosphere: 8/10 Originality: 7/10 Ratio price / quality: 4/10 Service: 0/10 How I felt afterwards: 2/10

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Absolutely horrible service!!! We had cosy dinner when a party of seven/eight arrived, this ruined the whole mood. There were other tables seated but we were not bothered by this, we have been out eating at restaurants before. This new party was so loud we could not hear each other when we were seated next to each other. We opted to leave the restaurant before we had dessert. The staff did nothing to help in this situation, on our way out we gave our feedback to the lady behind the desk, we were met with a sarcastic "everybody complains to me" and a just as sarcastic answer that we had not booked a table, and that WE should have told the party ourselves to be quiet.

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We really enjoyed our dinner here and plan to return -- as often as possible: there were so many tempting things on the menu! Carefully prepared dishes, and a variety of exquisite ingredients (mojama, cecina de León, rovellones). Informal, with professional service. Large wine selection and their house red is excellent. We're delighted to have a restaurant this good so close to home. The same woman served us as when we were visiting 3 years ago -- great to see such care...