Celler de Tapes — Restaurant in Barcelona

The only thought I had since I opened the lunch box is: Disappointment. We ordered Tapas and 2 main Dishes which contained Jamón Iberico (popular ham), grilled pepper, typical Spanish cheese, scampi prawns and 2 Secreto Iberico. I’ll have to admit, that the taste was not that bad, but knowing how it really should be tasting makes it hard for me to actually enjoy it. I had plenty of Secreto Ibericos in my life and eating this destroyed my appetite. It should be tender, lush and not dry. But the absolute worst of it all: The amounbi We paid 81€ (!!!!) for a quantity that wouldn’t even make a child full. That aren’t even tourist traps anymore rather scams To sum up I would like to reiterate , that the taste wasn’t terrible. But the food size was that laughable, that I had to write this critique. To the restaurant: I would advice you to either work on your prices and lower it by 60%, or make much bigger portions. Travel to Andalucia and get taught by locals how to prepare proper Iberico meat. Do you want make a lot of money and be known as a fraud restaurant or do you want to leave work and have a proud feeling? Thank you anyway for your service

ps: Jelly cubes won’t...

We had dinner here our first night in Barcelona and had a really good experience. Our server was Gina, she was lovely and helpful. All the dishes we tried were quite tasty. We enjoyed it all so much we decided to come back our last night. It was a disaster. We arrived an hour before closing time on a Saturday night. We stood at the host stand for a while and were ignored. I finally walked up to the young lady at the bar and asked for a table outside. She practically scowled at me when she said to go ahead and grab a table. We sat at the table for a long time before she finally came over, still unsmiling, to take our order. We did enjoy most of the food on this 2nd visit except for the potato dish with egg and chorizo. It was very basic - seemed just like frozen, store bought fries that were under cooked and topped with egg and chorizo. She never came back once to check on us. Luckily Gina swooped in at the end to bring us the check and she was just as pleasant as the previous time. Unfortunately, the other server was so unwelcoming and unfriendly we left there feeling very disappointed that this was how we spent our last night...

This place is honestly not worth your time or money. For three tapas and two drinks, our bill came to €40 and the food was such poor quality we couldn’t finish it. And we were hungry!

This is because there is a 15% charge for sitting outside!! We have lived for two months in Barcelona and eat out every day, not once has this happened to us.

All our mussels were broken to the point where we were worried to eat them, as four of them had shells inside the meat. The blue lagoon cocktail was disgustingly strong, we left it after two sips. Diana, our waiter, said we would have to pay to top it up with sprite. I asked for a half pint of estrella, but she brought a full pint and refused to change it for me.

Diana gave us terrible, 1-star service. Our tomato mussels were grey in colour, so unfortunately I also give the chef 1 star.

Extremely disappointing dining experience that doesn’t do justice to the wonderful cuisine Barcelona has to offer. You’re better eating anywhere - ANYwhere - else. We’ve had far better meals for...