Restaurante El Yate — Restaurant in Madrid

I honestly cannot fault this place, it's hard to chose from all the tapas restaurants around but we chose this one as it had good reviews and we just went for it. We are very big foodies (ny partner is a qualified chef and I work in hospitality myself) and the food was delicious. I definitely recommend the rolled pastry stuffed with cheese and leek with port. The port sauce is insane and we ordered a second round of the same dish and more port sauce! Also recommend the octopus with fried courgette 😋 We had over 10 dishes, 2 sangrias for 66 euro and they also gave us a free glass of Baileys after the meal. Lovely service and everything was super quick and the food was hot too which I love as I can't stand my food cold. Would definitely return great for the price and...

The dinner we had there was an absolute calamity. Firstly, we had to ask the menu twice before finally it was delivered by another waiter instead the one had met us. The waiter was widely chewing gum either while he was taking an order and while serving later. Throughout the meal, he was hands-crossed standing nearby and watching clients with an unpleasant facial expression. The food we ordered was so salty with unmelted pieces of salt all over plates and the price absolutely didn’t meet the quality. The manifest lack of interest and communication (or even smile) is not what one expects at restaurants, especially with the concurrency like in Madrid. Sorry, but they should more apply and devote themselves...

Don't come here for the food. The staff were generally very nice, but the food not so much. I ordered the fried mushrooms tapas as well as the Serrano ham with fried eggs & french fries. Sounded great on the menu, but not so much on the palate. The fried mushrooms tasted mediocre & the Serrano ham was carved in a way that bits of bone were still inside the thin slices, so I was biting down on little "stones" of bone in the ham, making much of it inedible. I advised both bartenders (in Spanish) serving me and all I got were looks of disbelief and nothing else. Zero attempt to correct the situation. I won't be...