Boqueria Tapas — Restaurant in London

our booking was at 6:30 but we were made to wait 15 minutes before we were seated. then, it was another 30 minutes before any food was served to us.

the first thing that came was chorizo. the problem is, we didn’t order chorizo so that was quickly taken away.

the actual first thing that came was the tomato bread which was crispy and lovely, but needed some salt which was not provided (we had to steal if from another table once it was vacated).

then another 20 minutes passed before we were served our main: the chimichurri sauce steak. one side of it was salted and the other side was sauced which made one side of my mouth salty and the other side saucy.

now, you might be wondering, you didn’t order tapas at a spanish restaurant?? but we did. it just hadn’t arrived yet. yes, the mains arrived before the tapas. which isn’t that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but surely no good spanish restaurant would bring out the mains before the tapas.

at this point, we had been in the restaurant for 1 hour and 15 minutes and less than half of our order had arrived. so, we asked the waiter where our food was. magically, almost immediately after asking, one of three of the tapas we ordered arrived.

this was the crispy chicken, which can be considered really yummy if i had not been waiting for so long already. the second to come was the pig tacos for which i share the same sentiment with the crispy chicken.

the tuna tartare took another reminder to the waiter to come. what js baffling to me is how a raw dish was the last to arrive.

needless to say, i am immensely dissatisfied and disappointed with my visit, especially since half the section i was seated in was empty when i was there despite claims of the kitchen being “super busy.” the tables that were filled also got their food at a far more reasonable speed than us.

this review would’ve been glowing if the service was reasonable because the food was genuinely good.

at least they had the decency to not charge us the 12.5%...

The most appalling and insulting service I have ever recieved. Over an hour after ordering we had still not recieved all of our dishes. Twice we received dishes that we didn't order, with no sign of the dishes we did. With one dish we received, we were told it was meat free, only to receive that 'same' meat free dish 15mins later. So what was the first dish they served that was supposed to be meat free? It was chicken. My vegetarian (has been for 30 years) friend ate it not knowing. When we complained, the waitress played down the issue and didnt seem to care. She was incredibly disrespectful and didnt think the complaint was serious. She was so openly rude to us, on what was supposed to be a special evening. We walked out and as we were leaving the waitress swore at my friend. I have worked in the industry and have honestly never seen anything like it. Not only was this waitress forgetting drink orders, obviously doing a terrible job, but to then belittle us and swear at us as we left. Her manager was there, so the only blessing that could come from our ruined night is that she will be fired. Avoid, this...

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