MIKAN — Restaurant in Barcelona

Don’t get me wrong: You will eat quite tasty food here. Compliments to the chef. But let me explain: We wanted to treat ourselves to some fine fusion kitchen. When we saw the card, it was immediately apparent that this will be an expensive meal. But if the portions are filling and of great quality for the price they ask for it, that would be fine. Each of use choose one meal (they tend to be on average 16€ if it’s not a „side-dish“). But it turns out once we wanted to place the order, the waitress recommended, or rather pushed us to choose 5 (yes five!) dishes, despite us being two persons. This made it clear that not only are the prices quite absurdly high, the card basically contains only side dishes because the size of what you get for 16€ and more is objectively tiny and not what you would expect.

So first issue: Food quantity is impudently small. Expect no bigger than side-dish amounts even for 16+€. Consider everything on the card a side dish, no matter the price!

The next point is the service: We ended up, upon recommendation, ordering 5 things and therefore going way beyond our budget for the night (even though we went in already expecting to spend a lot). The timing of the dishes was absolutely off. We received a starter first, everything good so far. Then came the side dish order for my main dish, the side dish for another main dish and later the main dish of my partner. We ended up finishing all side dishes and my partner already ate her main dish until (with all plates already empty), the waitress came with my main dish. No explanation or excuse as to why it came around 30-40 minutes after my partners main dish.

The waiters generally exude an air of indifference. They seem like people who are trying out fusion cuisine for a while before opening another hipster cafe in Gracia or working in a Carhartt store next year. But something makes me feel like they won’t accept any criticism or are indifferent to it.

So, unsurprisingly every guest spoke english, which is why I'm also writing this review in the language of their target customers: Wealthy internationals, because a normal local person could not afford these exclusive prices.

In total, you are definitely not getting what you are paying for. For that, they would need to greatly improve the dish timing, waiter attention and especially food quantity. The quality is good, but you can get equal quality, better service and an amount that doesn’t make you leave hungry easily. And yes, even in Barcelonas fancy regions it can be way cheaper and better.

My warning: You pay fine dining prices for average to good food quality, WAY under the average food amount and a sub-average to bad...

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