Restaurante Madreselva Tapas — Restaurant in Seville

I don’t usually write reviews for restaurants, but had to in this case.

The food was disappointing in so many ways. I was excited about trying fish albondigas (since I don’t eat meat), and what came were balls with almost no distinguishable flavor (or a good one at least). They were cold inside. The salsa they came in was - also - flavorless but leaning towards bad. I was disappointed but hoped the Sevillian spinach will at least let me leave with a good taste in my mouth. What came was green mush with two small biscuits inside, which had more flavor than the actual spinach. It felt like the kitchen worked extra hard to remove any existing flavor from the spinach. Price wasn’t too bad, but that was about it.

Good looking cozy place, professional and friendly staff. But I could only assume the cook has been replaced by a...

Dinner as a couple on a Friday evening at 20.30, the restaurant was just over half full. Very friendly greeting in arrival and seated quickly, the menus were on the table soon after. Very friendly and smiley waitress took our drinks order and when the drinks arrived our food order was taken. When the food arrived it was very tasty and for tapas quite large portions, the bravas had a lovely spice to them and the Russian salad was lovely and creamy. Pork with gorgonzola just fell to bits it was so tender, the meatballs were possibly the best tapas dish I've ever eaten. The risotto carbonara was unique and different but very tasty and cooked to perfection. We finished off with the French toast with ice cream and dulce de leche WOW you have to experience this dessert. Excellent experience from...

I don’t normally wax eloquence in these reviews, if I liked/loved the establishment, I would simply say that. But in this case, we chose this restaurant for its vegetarian menu and the 4.6 rating on this very site…it was four points too high. It was a fairly slow night, but we were seated in the very back next to the sliding door restrooms. We waited for 10+minutes to receive our menus and another 10+ minutes for them to take our orders. The food was straight out of the can/package served on chipped plates which matched the decor of the chipped walls. The service was friendly but not very efficient. We could have gone to three different restaurants within 20 metres of this one, but sometimes you roll craps. The only blessing is that it didn’t cost too much for...