La Barraca Restaurant — Restaurant in Bilbao

This restaurant was quite confusing for me to interpret it's menu. They serve many rice dishes, including a variety of paellas, and the menu says it's at least for two persons. Well, I thought the price mentioned included the 2 persons rule, but no. Basically, you can ask for a rice dish only if there are at least 2 persons to serve it, but each one of them pays a price written in the menu. So, it's around 20€ a serving for one person and you got to pay at least 40€(since it's at least for 2) for a whole dish. All the other prices are also high, almost all the entries are around 20€ each. I only ate paella, a seafood based, and it was super filling. One can easily skip dinner after, because it's quite a big of a serve and on top of that quite oily. Liked the taste, but also didn't think of it anything special, so to me it was a delicious comfy dish. Loved the service, the staff was very nice and polite. So, overall, this place is only worth a visit if you aren't on the budget, but if you are, there are other cheaper options...

Worst dinning experience ever, avoid at all cost!!!!

Got there at 9pm and the door was closed and realized we had to ring the bell to get in. Restaurant was completely empty, maybe after Christmas?

We ordered a seafood paella and veggie one which btw confused us with the portion per plate and price per person (2 portions minimum) and white wine. After waiting 30 minutes while eating reheated frozen bread (they charged for the bread), the paellas came out way too salty like sea water salty.

We told the waitress who sent back to the kitchen both of them tasted in front of us and were in denial that is was not. They decided to make another one for us after another 30 min, while the restaurant was empty. We got another paella as salty as the first. We decided to pay and leave.

At the end I spent 91 Euros for salt... My first paella in motherland Spain was the worst paella I ever had...

Ha perdido mucho desde que lo dejaron sus primitivos dueños, la paella de marisco, en mi opinión, ha bajado de calidad, las cigalas que nos pusieron estaban crudas, a parte de que la que le tocó a mí mujer tenía un color azulado y soltaba líquido azul, asqueroso ...la explicación que nos dieron es que las tripas de la cigala al hacerla en la plancha era normal que soltara ese líquido, por supuesto que no dimos por válida esa explicación y no nos comimos esa cigala. Sí esa fuera la explicación, todas las cigalas de la paella hubieran soltado ese líquido azul repugnante... no era asi, ...A parte, el arroz, a nuestro juicio estaba bastante duro, y eso que lo dejamos reposar mientras comíamos los entrantes, estábamos en agradable charleta entre los comensales etc...pero llegó el momento de probar el arroz, e insisto, nos pareció duro, poco hecho. Entiendo que puede haber gente que le guste así, así que no voy a criticar en exceso este aspecto. Llevamos yendo a ése restaurante bastantes años y hasta ahora el arroz nunca había estado tan duro. Hay que decir en su favor, que se llevaron la cigala "azulada" y nos hicieron otra. A ver, no quiero crucificar a nadie, recomiendo a la gente del entorno que vaya a este restaurante, y si le pasa situaciones parecidas a las mías... Pues eso, .... Le pondremos un cero...los comensales que fuimos hemos decidido, de momento no volver, pero insisto en que puede ser un fallo puntual de un restaurante al que yo tenía un especial aprecio. Volveré para comprobar que estos fallos no se vuelvan a repetir. Todos tenemos derecho a equivocarnos . Por lo...