Porta Wine & Tapas Bar Reviews Summary

Menu Variety and Specials

Pros:

• "Fab selection of dishes with the specials keeping a lil treat surprise dishes."
• "The amazing menu has hardly changed in about five years (and doesn’t need to!) and the food is consistently amazing."
• "The last time I tasted tapas this good was in San Sebastián."
• "the specials and brought us some refreshing water while we decided."
• "Especially the Roasted Pumpkin Dish was divine and one that I endeavoured to copy myself."

Cons:

• "Too English. Food was amazing but since it’s been taken over the ambience is not what it used to be."

Food Quality and Taste

Pros:

• "Food is flavourful and fresh, not had a bad dish yet."
• "the bread proved that simple food can be done well and taste amazing!"
• "the main event, the paella, was out of this world."
• "the best tapas I have had outside of Spain and without doubt the best I have had in the UK."
• "The best plate we ordered were the croquettes of the day coming in at a close second was this pumpkin dish."

Cons:

• "Food arrived quickly, some dishes didn't seem too fresh."
• "others were lacking flavour and some had far too much oil."
• "The dishes all smell heavenly and do taste good in terms of texture etc, yet they are also very salty."
• "I have visited this restaurant before and I loved it so much. That's why I decided to come back to celebrate my birthday and I was extremely dissapointed. Despite the fact that the staff was amazing, the paella was not fit for consumption. I feel so annoyed, I've spent 80 pounds for poor quality food! Pork was not fresh and it was just excessively covered in oil."

Service and Staff

Pros:

• "Staff are knowledgeable, with a perfect levels of customer rapor."
• "Lovely staff and superb food."
• "Staff were very helpful and quick to brings drinks and food orders."
• "Staff were lovely and helpful."
• "Fantastic customer service and can safely say the wedding present was a hit with the newly weds!"

Cons:

• "Staff were great but unfortunately we had to grab staff to get another drink as think they were busy."
• "I asked the waitress if she spoke Spanish but she didn’t. She said the Spanish chef kept correcting her pronunciation."
• "Expensive, poor service (waitress gave our order to another table and tried to argue that we had relieved it and eaten it....)"
• "Whilst mistakes happen, they way the restaurant dealt with it is what really shocked me. For sometime the servers avoided our table and despite there obviously being something wrong no one came & checked."

Ambiance and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Nice relaxed atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere cosy and intimate, connecting the food and people succinctly."
• "Great food great atmosphere."
• "Nice relaxed and cosy atmosphere and the food was amazing."

Cons:

• "The music was great as was the ambience of the place but being sat in a walkway to the toilets wasn’t ideal either."
• "The only issue I had was with the state of the stairs and toilet area, it was pretty grim!"
• "It seems to have changed from nice, cosy and unique to loud, slightly rowdy 'friday night pub' feel."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "The tapas came quickly and reasonably priced to allow a variety."
• "The food was beautiful. I loved everything that we ordered and the cheesecake was the best I’ve ever tasted!"
• "Really lovely tapas bar. Staff were super accommodating for a table for 7, they gave great suggestions and didn't mind us taking tour time. The food was great and so reasonably priced."

Cons:

• "I was disappointed with my recent visit. The portion sizes got much smaller and more expensive."
• "Portions on small side for the price, would have been nice to have a basket of bread to mop up sauces, didn't like the automatic service charge."
• "Be warned. You will wait twice the length they tell you!"