La Taberna Gallega de Marcos Barcelona — Restaurant in Barcelona

If you don't speak spanish, don't recommend to go. I had a great meal and service in this restaurant. A Spanish waiter attended us with great service. But next to my table, there were 4 koreans who didn't speak spanish at all and spoke little english. Their waiter who was originally from south asia first showed them a tray of uncooked seafood of lobster, crab and big shrimps and didn't say the price at all. The koreans asked several times the price in english and since I spoke Korean, Spanish and english I offer them translation and asked the waiter in spanish precisely the price of seafood. After avoiding several times the waiter told me a price is per kilo and it would be around 100 euro. I translated it to koreans and precisely asked the waiter to weigh the seafood and give koreans exaxct price first before cooking. After that I came back my table and enjoyed my great meal when I heard another argument from that Korean table. I went there again and it turned out the price of the seafood was 314 euro. And the waiter was saying since they already started to cook, they cannot cancel the order. I complained but the waiter was saying that the koreans said ok to their order when I wasn't there. In reality the koreans were waiting for the exact price of the meal first. The koreans were upset and cancelled all other meal, and proceeded only what was already started cooking. When their seafood meal came they asked check immediately to the waiter just to avoid any further abuse and that waiter again didn't want to bring it saying he is going to bring the bill later when koreans finished their meal. My husband had to yell at that waiter to bring check immediately. Looked like they abuse foreign...

Well what can i say staff we're amazing 👏 but food was awful i should have known as soon as we sat down and saw the EXTENSIVE menu...! As gorden Ramsey would say less is more and concentrate on dishes you are good at not try and cram everything on the munu.. We wanted to have a relaxing evening and a couple of drinks before our meal but kept getting asked are you ready to order..! So we ordered 2 starters but got bread and olives that we didn't ask for the portion sizes were huge but quality terrible once again its quality not quantity...! Even before we'd finished our starter the main came out once again rushed...my husband sent them back saying he didn't want our mains sitting under a hot plate we wanted them re cooked...we spoke to a nice man maybe manager who did apologise and left us alone for 20 minutes or so then said would you like your mains now we said yes My husbands lamb chops to be fair were ok..but they forgot his chips so had to ask again My paella deffinalty had been sitting as it was awful...! Worst ive ever had again large portion but rank! As ive said staff we're great and in the end the manager took off one starter but still came to €118 Have to say the rose wine i had was good on par with provonce and not expensive but that was it Shame but they need to specialise and concentrate on quality...

I ate here 3 years ago and it was excellent. Forgot what it was called though and foolishly ate at the place next door the night before this. Thankfully we made the correct choice the following evening and returned here. The difference between the 2 restaurants is huge but you will see my review of that place in my other reviews. Last time i ate here, despite not being on the menu, the chef made me a Calzone and the waiter promised to put it on the menu. This trip started slightly disappointingly as i struggled to encourage the waiter to request that the chef made me a Calzone and ultimately the chef did refuse. My disappointment didn't last long as the staff remained totally professional and delivered the Mussels we had ordered as a sharing starter with bread. Amazing! for mains I ordered the Suckling pig whilst my partner ordered the Marine pizza. Again excellent and followed up with a Spanish Brandy, several Vodkas and a couple of Tia Maria's. Our waiter Masqud was excellent and as he finished his shift came and bid us good evening for which i gave him a well earned tip and again thanked him for his professionalism. The owner of the Restaurant was ever present and although an obvious elderly gentleman, was passionately interested that everyone was enjoying the best possible experience. Highly...