La Bobina Marlborough — Restaurant in England

We visited this new restaurant in Marlborough a few nights ago and I’m disappointed to say it didn’t wholly live up to the reviews I had read.

It’s a lovely setting, nice surroundings and the garden looks lovely to dine in. We were given a table directly opposite the open kitchen area.

We ordered our drinks and also a jug of tap water. Our drinks arrived and a large bottle of spring water. Not what we’d asked for.

Food was ordered. Bread and olives first. Then Patatas Bravas, green beans with almonds, a tomato thing on bread and I had the pork belly special. The patatas were lovely, but I’m sorry to say everything else was a bit of a let down. It was all far too salty. So much so that we couldn’t eat it all in the end and left stuff on the plate. Even the bread just seemed to be bog standard supermarket French bread stick.

My partner had a gelato affogato (or something similar) for dessert which she loved. I had Spanish brandy. This came out in a large whiskey tumbler and not a brandy glass. Just attention to detail for me. We had 1 large and 2 medium glasses of wine in total.

Bill including 10% service came to just over £92 which seems to be what I’d call Marlborough prices. All in all a pretty disappointing meal & can’t see myself going back. There is another Tapas in town called Tipi Tapa and my partner thinks that is much more authentic and better. I’ll be...

Only stopped for a drink but could have been a meal had I have been convinced it was worth parting with more money. It's the attention to detail as always that let's places down. Out of date village flyers for a village fete that's been and gone, a skew whiff painting hanging on the wall, the four coat hooks that have a plant in front of them making hanging a coat or jacket challenging, and yes it was raining. The Spanish wine I was unimpressed with. Had this have been a real Spanish tapas bar then some gratis nibbles would have been presented or even a glass of H2O offered, but no, so nothing stand out just another run of the mill place with little attention to detail or staff making you want to return. Very poor and did not even have meal. Note to staff or owners.. you never know who maybe your next customer, I could have been doing a quick visit to book the place out for my forthcoming big birthday, but will not now be using your alleged...

Very disappointed- I can't comment on the food as we never got that far, as they managed to mess up our booking. I went in to the restaurant on Friday lunchtime in person to book a table for the following evening. The waiter/barman took the booking, entered it in the system, confirmed what he had booked, a table for 2 on 11 March at 8pm and he asked if it was a special occasion. Yes I said, our wedding anniversary. He took my mobile number too. So I had no reason to think that there would be a problem on the Saturday when we turned up at 8pm. They couldn't find the booking and as the restaurant was full they couldn't say how long we might have to wait for a table. They did say we could eat at the bar but we did not want to do that. We ended up going for an Indian which was very nice but not what we had planned. Not sure what happened but maybe some proper training in taking bookings would be good. Hopefully the kitchen staff are...