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🤢 2/5 - I generally only write reviews for places that I enjoy so
By 👻 @Andrew V., 03/20/2023 3:00 am
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I generally only write reviews for places that I enjoy so much that I'm excited to get on here and support them. Sadly, love and enthusiasm for this place is not what's pushing me to write this review tonight. I just could not recommend this place to anyone, for any occasion.Price & value: I'll start here because I think that this place was really very expensive for what it was and did not represent any sort of value for money and I think it's hard to forget how expensive this place was as I think about how off everything was. Honestly, this review might sound harsh but I think that for over $200 out the door for 2 people in this city, you just have to do much, much better. There are so many AMAZING restaurants in this town at every price point and this is just not a good spot for any amount of money. The food was genuinely bad, the space was not comfortable.Space: A very big restaurant that doesn't feel cozy. When we went, there was an extremely loud live band. We weren't alone in feeling like it was too loud as several folks who sat down after us asked to move before ordering. The lights were inexplicably bright in the half of the restaurant we had been seated in while they were much more appropriately dim in the rest of the space (farther from the music).Food: Modern interpretations of classic dishes are always tricky but Bellota certainly did not succeed in their updated interpretations. 1. The Gildas were practically inedible. The olive was stuffed with a tiny bit of fish paste rather than having an actually piece of anchovy on the tooth pick (presumably a cost savings for them). I'm not sure if the olive was also pickled or if the incredible intensity of the pickling on the pepper just gave that impression, the pepper was huge and so intense that to call it an assault on the mouth would not be an overstatement. Perhaps an actual anchovy would have helped cut the acidity? 2. The Patatas Bravas were ok. The cook on the potatoes was fine but not fantastic (really didn't have a super even cook throughout the batch and none of the potato pieces had that super crisp outside + soft inside that you really want). The sauce was not good at all.3. The Paella. So first of all, there are 4 options (I wouldn't call any of them traditional)... the fact that individually they cost 52-62 but if you get a split, no matter which two you get, the price is $68? Frustrating. Perhaps it would all be ok if the paella was delicious, but it was not. We got the two that our waiter told us were the most popular (the mushroom and the squid). I was really excited for the mushroom as I love morels. Sadly, they were just not. The most prominent taste was of wine not yet fully cooked off, the general mushy texture... Not good. The menu says their paella serves 2-4 people. I would say minimum of 4 people if you order anything else and you can't get a smaller size, even though they sold their "split" offering to almost every table we saw (which is two half portions). Most tables around us did not seem to finish their paella. Wine: I'm not an expert in Spanish wines but I do especially love Lopez de Heredia. The offer their wines by the bottle where prices get crazy pretty fast. A $28 bottle of their Vina Cubillo sells there for $70. A $48 bottle of the Vina Tondonia sells there for $150. The fact that the cheapest glass of Rioja on the menu was $19 seemed kind of crazy (it was a drinkable glass but certainly not special).Conclusion: I just would not go back. I honestly left regretting that we had missed an opportunity to eat at another places that would have been more fun, more comfortable, and more delicious.
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