The Orange Tree Tapas — Restaurant in Tameside

Reviewed October 2021 My foodie partner decided that I needed to refresh my Tapas style taste-buds as it has been a while since 2018 and my Korean encounter.. and the fact that that The Orange tree had been getting a lot of very good reviews and recommendations.

Yes, the place IS small, a 'little' cramped and I would surmise quite noisy when full, maybe seating for 35-45. It was very quiet when we went there at 6pm on a Wednesday but soon was a 1/4 full by 7.30ish - so you could still hold a quiet conversation. Your choice of times to suit your needs and activity.

Drinks: Rose house wine and Estrella Damm

As it was Tapas style it was 'shares' which is always a good thing when wanting to sample many of the dishes without 'overdoing' it:

Basket of warm bread & butter Patatas Brava Potato's with spicy tomato sauce Fabada Asturiana Mixed beans in tomato & chilli sauce Pollo En Pimiento Chicken breast strips, Paprika cream and wine sauce. Chorizo Al Vinto Tinto Chorizo sausage in red wine Gambas Pil Pil King Prawns in garlic and lemon Lubina EnEn Salsa Picante Sea Bass (grilled) in a tomato sauce, light salad.

and to finish it all off: The Orange Tree Messy.

As my partner, simply adores Spanish/Portuguese and Mexican food she was in her element and a good help in choosing my initiation to a number of the dishes. I have to say, I really, really enjoyed them all. Non were overpowering and in a strange way complimented each other. I particularly liked the 'Pollo' and 'Chorizo' and as i am a fish lover I needed to try the Sea Bass, which was very well cooked and fell very nicely. What can I or my partner say about the Orange Tree Messy... it was, and so enjoyed.

Personally, I'm ready and ok with trying some more dishes from...

Very charming venue and atmosphere, the staff were polite and the food was fresh and tasteful…

However, very underwhelmed by the shrimp dish. being one of the most expensive dishes on the menu close to £7 I was hoping for more the 3 sorry looking pieces of shrimp, which I can only presume was more likely to be the leftovers from a previous shrimp dish sent back as I was close to doing so myself, either that or they ran out either way if I’m spending close to £40 on 5 tapas dishes plus some fries I’d expect to be full enough that I’m not now writing this review sat in another restaurant looking for a quick fix.

All jokes aside the venue is lovely and quaint and would go again if I was assured I’d be getting a...

The food was really nice, and although the servers were friendly, the service was shocking ! We went early on a Sunday, we were the only table in there for about half an hour. Yet we waited ages to be asked what we would like to drink, to have our order taken and for all of the tapas dishes to arrive (2 or 3 dishes were forgotten completely, they did come out with apologies soon after we mentioned it, however at this point we had almost finished our main meals. Again if the servers had been more on the ball this wouldn't have happened, no one came to ask if everything was ok with our meal). it's a shame as like I said the food was really good. Hopefully this was just...