Barrafina

Overrated! Food is good but not excellent. Croquettes were too cheesy and salty. I love cheese but the cheese flavour was too strong in this dish. Chorizo with potato and watercress also too salty. Tortilla with gravy?! reminded me of Sunday roast not days in Barcelona. Oyster ceviche was excellent as was the Iberico ham (but super expensive at 18.50 a plate). Friendly staff but let down by the food.

Great tapas and atmosphere but the queues are very long, any day, any time, and it spoils the experience somewhat. Saw Bill Murray of Hollywood fame the last time I was here and he seemed to be enjoying the Rioja and Jamon! It almost made up for the 45 minutes of shuffling along in the queue.

We,ve been to Barrafina on a number of occasions and despite a long wait to be seated, it was always worth the wait. HOWEVER on our last visit on Saturday 12th November. We waited over 2 hours to be seated, which wouldn't have been so irratating if the resturant's staff hadn't dumped what I can only assume were friends up the queue. This happened 3 times which meant that 8 pecious seats were taken out and meant by the time we sat down all the fresh sea food had gone and we had to rush what we ordered to get back for the train... very disappointing!

Deserves a better review from TimeOut, in my opinion. As described below, "consistently excellent".

Some of the best spanish food you can get in london. It's not for everyone - it's really rowdy, and you often have to wait for ages to get a table if you get there after 6.30pm(!), but this is what I love about it and I have been several times over the last couple of years. The food is consistently excellent, especially the fish which changes daily, and it has great staff who always seem to be enjoying themselves. if you are precious about bustling and atmospheric places and want a quiet meal, go to tapas brindisa on broadwick street - completely different experience and vastly inferior in my opinion.

Never got to find out how good the food was.Ordered around £15 of drinks said that we waiting for some others to join us for dinner. After 10 minutes first asked then told to leave bar area and stand until we wee ready to eat. We were ready to do and did.

Best place for a lovely, delicious spanish meals served in meze style. The cooks are cooking infront of you, meet is cut in front of you as well. Very busy and really tasrty. Will be definitely coming back.