Sangria 71 — Restaurant in Town of North Hempstead

There is absolutely nothing to recommend here. I am shocked they have a good review. Maybe there are no good tapas restaurants around there and so there is nowhere to compare this place to. The staff are good, the problem is the experience The setting is not good. Cramped with small tables that leave you so little room you have to always worry about hitting the people on the next table in the face. Tapas was bad. Fried calamari like you would get in a cheap bar, fried in low quality oil. Grilled octopus tasted like rubber in engine oil. The paella, well, the portions are big (who wants to eat it anyways?). Badd rice, food coloring instead of saffron, cooked all wrong. The "chef" must not have ever had tried a traditional paella or any good variants of it. This was not paella. It was colored rice with some seafood thrown on it. I gave them a last chance to see if they had anything to offer as of desert. When the chocolate souffle turned out to be store-bought sponge chocolate muffin with chocolate syrup on top and a scoop of generic ice cream I was completely convinced that people running this restaurant have no idea about fine dining. Nice people. Just terrible food. Like I said, they only way I can make sense of an over 4 star rating is that all restaurants of this type in Nassau county must just be so horrible that this one looks good, comparatively! I don't know maybe they can make decent stake or cutlet or something. I didn't try. By the way, the salad was edible and the starter olive oil was not bad (the bread that came with was bad). I thought I should mention that to be fair. Again, nice people. Only this is fast food quality dining even a two star in my book. A look at the "chocolate souffle" picture in the review just before me should rest my case for a...

I went to this place after hearing great reviews from a friend. My experience was horrible. I went to this place whilst having a babysitter for an 18 month old daughter. We came at 5:30 and the server said an option was to wait at the bar; order Sri is and wait until about 6:00 and a table would be ready. I said sure. My wife and I waited till 6:20 u til I went back and asked if we were forgotten. The hostess said a table will be opening up momentarily; to wait 5 mins or so. I had to be home soon in order for our daughter to sleep. I said sure. But more time passed. It was now around 6:45 when I decided we had to start leaving in order to get our daughter to sleep and relieve the babysitter of her duties. We ordered 3 beers and a bottle of wine at the bar at this point and stilll didn’t have a table. This was the 1st time in almost 2 years where my wife and I had a chance to go out alone. We weren’t able to eat a nice meal. And waited and waited and WAITED. Our night was ruined. We ended up going to the king Mullen next door to get food...very romantic. The bar tender and especially the (maybe bar back?) were so pleasant and kind. But the overall experience of the wait and ruined night was horrible. I’m very disappointed. Here’s just my 2 cents. What a waste of a babysitter and night out...

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Fun place! 2nd time here! If tapas were our favorite food, I’d probably give this place 5/5 stars. Not my personal favorite so it’s hard to be a judge, but we were really happy with this experience! We went before 7 and got the Happy Hour special! Sangria was delicious and fun, we ended up getting a second pitcher. We got several tapas including: guac and chips (loved), shrimp(highly liked), artichoke hearts (not my fav), muscles (liked a lot), side salad (liked), and this absolutely mouth watering phenomenal filet mignon in mushroom sauce which we all agreed is the best filet mignon we ever had in our life. We felt the filet mignon was even better than 5 star steak houses. Their filet mignon mushroom sauce dish is by far the most delicious thing on their menu- WOW! 😍

We decided that when we come back, we will be coming back for Happy Hour sangria pitchers, guac and chips, and that mushroom filet mignon😍!

Also the bread was delicious. We kept ordered more bread for the table. They gave us two types: a soft Italian bread and then a rustic sourdough. Both were delicious and great for dipping in the garlic oil served with it!

Yum yum yum!...