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Decor & Ambience

A smart dining room with bright and airy booths styled in yellow leather, with tall ceilings and striking red light shades.  The colours of the Spanish 'Bandera', fittingly.  Broadly, it’s a handsome place to enjoy a quality meal.

Price

Fantastic value for money is on offer here, with the tasting menu with matched wines summarising this, at a snip for just £45 for 6 tasting courses and £25 for 6 quality glasses, which equated to around a whole bottle of wine in volume.  Quite possibly the best value tasting menu with matched wines anywhere in the city.

Service

From start to finish, service was impeccable, knowledgeable, warm, and attentive, with perfect pace and sequence.  Crucially, half way into our meal, a group of gentleman from a Premier League football team arrived.  The levels of service which we received didn’t change despite this, and every table was given the same high level of service.

Food & Drink

All in all, quite possibly the best Spanish cooking anywhere in the city centre, even if some neighbours get more press and the media train gets carried away with pushing the more trendy venues. 

Great produce, skilled and refined cooking which transcends regular tapas offerings, backed up with a cracking wine and general bar product.  Presentation and plating has also improved since our last visit.  Very strong.

Overall

One of the best restaurants in the city, without question, and for us, the best Spanish offering which we have currently available in Manchester city centre purely in terms of food quality, authenticity and quality.  We have a lot of genuinely good Spanish food in the city these days, so that’s some compliment.