Iberica

Great restaurant!! First time and i was blown away by how it feels spain but without the tacky bullfighting and flamenco music. As a spaniard i am very proud to say that i have found a great place that makes me feel like i am back in madrid having some callos and a bottle of mahou. Bien hecho senores!!
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Jorge
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Iberica is one of my favorite spanish restaurants. It is as close to the food I have eaten in Madrid and Barcelona. Good quality products simply cooked with out this foofoo food that looks great and tastes of nothing. Unlike some of the people who have left comments I have only good things to say both about the food and the service. Plus its the only place that you can have a decent selection of good Iberico Ham.

Highly recomend this place if you want to experience as close to Spanish food as you can get in london. I am sure that everybody has thier favorite spanish restaurant. This one is mine by far!!!

Try the croquettes, the squid and if you can the rib of beef !!! Massive!!
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JT - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Monday, January 18, 2010

We went there last last Sunday. Only downstairs is open with an adapted menu - paella and a short list of tapas.

When we came in the place was reasonably full which surprised us considering the unusual location which is very quiet on a Sunday.

Service turned out to be well meaning but very amateurish:

- We three times had to ask to remove the vast array of glasses on the table - they are keen for you to order wine

- They took our order for soft drinks and after a number of failed attempts finally only brought tiny coke bottles.

- We ordered bread but this was forgotten about.

- It took ages to pay

Now the food, the two tapas we ordered were good, but £8.00 for a normal portion of fried squid is pushing it.

The paella was big disappointment priced at £18.50 per portion. It says on the menu that it takes 40 minutes to freshly prepare. This is a bit of a gimmick, you don't need to prepare every plate of paella from scratch. In any case it was NOT freshly prepared, there was thin film on top the paella obviously where it had been under a hot lamp for a while (I just hope it wasn't microwaved). For two and at that price the number of ingredients and portion was very mean.

All in all a big disappointment, especially considering there are such good Spanish restaurants in London like Barrafina, Lolla Roso, Dehesa, etc.
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Dutch_Food - View all reviews by this user
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Food 3 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 2
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Great Restaurant, great food, great service, great atmosphere.

Good price range. Marcos (owner) has brought an authentic Spanish restaurant to London, great wine list, and extensive menu. Recommend the Casa de Ermita (Jumilla) decanted and served cool, with the ‘Jabugo’ Ham. Great Value and a great experience. My two French and one English guests loved it, if the French and the English agree about food it is very special!
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Brian McIver (No soy Girri Murcia)
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Food 8 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Friday, October 09, 2009

Our first visit we had mistakenly booked into the restaurant upstairs instead of the buzzy tapas area below. Downstairs was full and the 3 of us had a drink before we decided not to stay and eat as we really wanted the tapas. Despite this being in no way the restaurant's fault, they insisted that our drinks were on the house. What lovely service - it ensured we returned quickly with a reservation to eat in the tapas bar. We weren't disappointed - the food was really tasty and interesting and not too badly priced. Some portions were a really good size but others seemed very small - for example the hot chorizo was tiny. We had lovely spanish wine and a complimentary digestif at the end of the meal - the service was very friendly. Still prefer Salt Yard for a romantic meal but this was certainly worth returning to.
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SE - View all reviews by this user
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Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Friday, July 10, 2009

I have to support the views of my fellow Spaniards. This is an absolutely authentic place and I really hope that it keeps as it is. Perhaps I would welcome an extra 2 ham croquetas in the plate (4 is a bit stingy) but that is all.

I found the service friendly and attentive and fortunately we did not have long waits between plates.

I have now made a booking for having a paella on a Sunday and cannot wait!! Mmmmmm.
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Susana - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Friday, April 10, 2009

As a Spanish living in London I must say that is a wonderful restaurant, the food is great but the service is completely incompetent. They are not professionals. As a regular client- I go with my family and friends at least once per week- I can say that last Saturday it took about 45 minutes between dishes. I can write you more examples like two Sundays ago we went with our friends and I had book a table for 7 people and SURPRISE! they wanted us to sit down in a table with 5 chairs, they brought us the wine when we were finishing and there was no bread at all. So maybe we will try for other time and maybe it will be the last one!
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Charo
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Food 8 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 5
Thursday, April 09, 2009

What a fantastic Restaurant! I took clients here for lunch and the quality of food is just wonderful, excellent tapas, perfectly cooked and full of flavour, the staff were helpful and never intrusive and the decor is bright and airy. Iberica was recommended to me and it didn't dissappoint, I will definitely be back here soon, in fact this could be possibly some of the best Tapas I've had in London!
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Alan
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

One word to sum up this restaurant, FABULOUS! we visited Iberica on a saturday for lunch and being the kind of people who enjoy their food, my friend and I ordered about 1/2 the menu. the food came out in stages as it was freshly cooked and this spread the meal over a few hours, as we ate slowly. Everything we ordered was perfectly cooked and delicious, i would recommend the meatballs as well as the Squid. The staff could not have been more attentive and polite and nothing was too much trouble. Overall i would highly recommend this restaurant and cannot complement the experience enough.
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Fiona - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

I ate here with friends last night and was very impressed. Every single thing we ordered was absolutely delicious, the wine was excellent and the service genuinely friendly, very attentive and professional. It was also very reasonably priced indeed. It's a long time since I've had such good food and service in London. The place is a bit noisy but a good, friendly atmosphere. Highly recommended!
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Alan
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Friday, December 12, 2008