Mosquito | Barcelona — Restaurant in Barcelona

My girlfriend and I chose to eat here (01/04/19) due to the good reviews elsewhere, however it massively disappointed us.

I'll start with the aspects;; The waitress was a human, who had sympathy. The food was averagely priced, the portions were perhaps a little too small. The fried fish was okay, though very salty (and bony, but that's to be expected), and the tofu was tender and had some flavour.

However, the overriding factors concluding my review are aspects;; The waiting staff were unattentive, and throughout the meal seemed to forget about my table, the waitress even admitted to forgetting to bring us the bill at the end.

in the dumplings, which, after some debate with myself and some Internet searches, I asked the waitress about, who agreed it looked undercooked, and brought over a new plate of dumplings, of which the beef was also undercooked. I gave up, and asked for the price of the dumplings to be removed from the bill, and the waitress agreed.

Two stars instead of just one, because our waitress was decent about the issue I raised, and was generally seemed to care about our issue, despite being busy and attending lots of other tables.

-- TL;DR -- Avoid if possible, raw minced beef, understaffed...

Went here for something other than tapas or burgers and pizza. Ordered pork dumplings, pork dumpling noodle soup and beef spareribs. Drank a cava with the meal since they did not serve sangria. The spareribs came first. If u r not used to or do not like bones, forget it. This dish is not for you. However, my daughter and I love to gnaw on bones. Therefore, we had a blast. It was flavored with Chinese five spice. The meat wasn't fall off the bone and the meat wasn't so tender like Chinese spareribs from typical dim sum places, but the sauce was really good. U just need to roll the entire meat and bone in the sauce to make it moist. We used the remaining five spice sauce to eat with our pork dumplings. It increased the flavor profile and enriched the dumplings. Next was my pork dumplings with noodle. The dumplings were the same as before. We continued to dunk it into the 5 spice sauce. However, the noodles in the soup was really soft. You can tell it was homemade. It was a bit bland so I dunk the noodles in the sauce too. We r glad we got our Chinese food fixing in Barcelona without...

The service was pretty bad. The server missed one item on our order when they didn't write it down. They also gave us something we didn't order by accident because they misread their own ordering system of noting a sheet with a pencil. (And there was no eraser) They also didn't clearly explain which dishes were which when delivering them, and with half the table ordering vegetarian options we didn't know which were meat or not. After they had delivered the food, they didn't check on the table when we wanted extra condiments and it was busy and became difficult to get their attention.

The food was mostly bland. Not terrible but largely lacking in taste. The photos of older reviews are maybe outdated; their vegetarian options are limited, mostly taste samey (we tried 3 different ones) and there is not vegetarian soup option despite one noodle bowl listed under the "soup" heading and being a dry noodle dish (that was also very bland).

The lighting inside is dark making it difficult to read the menu. I do not recommend this place. My friends who tried the meat dishes also didn't think they were particularly...