The Malt House Worksop — Restaurant in Bassetlaw

I hope you take this as constructive criticism not a slagging off - I know times have been hard since covid and I'll give you that. I should have mentioned the food before we left and apologies for not doing so.

We were really looking forward to 'authentic' tapas but were unfortunately met with slightly overpriced non-authentic dishes.

Firstly some positive feedback: The staff were very lovely and welcoming and fairly attentive. The place is nicely decorated and lovely atmosphere. Our food came quickly and it was all hot enough. The chicken skewers were nice, the halluomi fries were lovely and the sangria and cocktails were fabulous, but that's where it ends unfortunately.

Now the negatives: You were obviously short staffed, only 3 people were working and I believe the lady that owns it and sat us at our table was also the chef as we never saw her again, so only 2 staff fetching and carrying one which also had to do the bar. The olives weren't pitted as stated on the menu, but we were informed they weren't when they came, they weren't nice olives. The cod and parsley croquettes were basically battered fishcakes, we were thinking they would be flakes of fish so that was very disappointing and at £6.95 expensive. The patatas bravas were not home made but what seemed like the frozen potato cubes that you can get in any superstore and the sauce was quite chilli hot so my mum had to ask for some without the sauce on as it didn't state the sauce was hot. So as these were cheap frozen potatoes again an expensive dish. There wasn't a great deal of choice on the menu as there were four dishes that contained Chorizo. Maybe some of the other dishes are better  who knows? If you want authentic dishes it might be an idea to get a Spanish chef, just a suggestion?

Just one point on the service, we did have to wait a bit for our table to be cleared and our dessert/cocktails to be ordered and it wasn't busy just 3 other tables occupied, but again that's down to lack of staff.

As I said I don't want to slag off just...

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