Barrafina

Excellent!!! The food and wine were really great and the service up to very high standards. We had to wait for about half an hour to get a seat, but that is expected at least on a Saturday night. After all the possibility of having some wine and tapas while on the queue makes waiting time seem less and at the end the food is really worth it. Strongly recommended for people who love good mediterranean food and not only...
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Constantinos
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Sunday, November 21, 2010

I have been a customer of Barrafina for a long period of time. I have waited up to an hour to eat there and recommended it mercilessly to both native Spaniards like me and friends from all over London. Last week, we ordered a glass of white wine and a glass of brut while we where waiting to eat and whereas the wine was chilled to an acceptable standard the brut wasn't. My partner kindly ask for a chiller glass and was told by the waiter that it was chilled enough. To that purpose, he simply touched the glass and went away. We were put off staying the full 45 minutes we had to wait and decided to leave but the waiter blatantly refused to delete the untouched brut from our bill. When he called the manager, she told us that she wanted to touch the glass herself to which my partner suggested that she went to pick the glass up herself from the end of the bar if she felt it was necessary. She hesitated for a long, embarrassing ten seconds talking back and forth to the waiter and looking around but she finally took it off the bill. We were frankly appalled and left promptly and I can safely say that we have no intention of coming back any time soon. Barrafina has great food, but so do dozens of places in London and for those prices I expect to be treated with a lot more elegance in such petty disagreements.
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Maria
2 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Monday, September 06, 2010