Restaurants

Having been to Lola Rojo twice, I'd say that the food is not at all bad, but it's badly let down by the service which is mediocre at best. To make matters worse, the predominately upper middle class clientele seem oblivious to the fact that their small children are noisy and disrputive. We asked staff to have a word with one table, whose child had been singing for the best part of 20 minutes, but they refused. We won't be back.

we were there as a group and so had to have the set menu. one or two nice touches such as the manchego lollipop but generally unexciting and the rice dishes were very disappointing. this experience didn't compare favourably to any I've had in spain. I'm heading back to Fino this week - I can't wait. I won't be part of a big group this time but I did look at their set menus out of interest and Fino's to be honest looked much more exciting.

I think I have enough experience of eating in Spain to know that very little we were served last night was more than mediocre. We were there as part of a group but even taking that into account I would have expected a higher standard for a 5 star rated restaurant. Paella and rice dishes were particularly disappointing. That said, the wine was very good and all the staff extremely friendly.

I was a bit disappointed to be honest. I love Spanish food and the food was fine, but the service did ruin things a little. We tried to order two servings of paella to share amongst five of us but the waitress, whose English was pretty poor, couldn't understand this so we were charged for five portions. Also we asked her twice if the paella contained mussels...both times she confirmed it did not contain them. We explained that one of our party was allergic to them. When it arrived, it was full of shelled mussels, which were a little difficult to detect. This is pretty poor and could have been quite dangerous.
We also ordered dishes that didn't turn up (although these didn't appear on our bill.). All in all, I felt the food was OK in places but the service means I won't eat there again.

For a prize winning restaurant you would think the food was good, however it is not. The staple Patata Bravas was 4 small pototoes with a mayonnaise foam on, the tortilla was solid, dry and pre cooked and the rice dishes tasteless. I took my wife's family who had never had tapas before and I was simply embarrassed by the poor quality of food. There are many Spanish restaurants who at the lower end of the market have better food. I would not recommend it to anybody in fact I would recommend Timeout to revisit the restaurant.

This was my 4th visit within the last year-i had always rated it very highly. While appreciating it has always been a little on the expensive side - i dont mind paying for quality hence i went back. My experience this time was very different - I went with my flatmate and girlfriend and we all agreed it was poor. In summary - smaller dishes than i remember, food luke warm, most dishes relied on mayonniase based sauces, lacking flavour. On deciding to give feedbakc rather than say nothing the owners response made the experience all the worse - complete non-acceptance that there may be an issue, merely insitance that given her husband was chef it must have been good food. The final straw was when the 'service charge' was taken of the bill - which was not what we wanted at all - the waiter was fine and he should have in no way been punished. I agree with a below comment that the manageress / owner is rude. Wine was only good part - a real shame as i used to love this place. There isn't an abundance of good tapas restaurants in London - i base my judgement on experiences of being a continental foods buyer for a supermarket which means eating in Spain a lot. Hopefully i have prevented someone else havign a bad experience by writing this

Amazing spanish food!! Gorgeous!!
And the waitress named Alize is beautiful as well!!

I have been to this restaurant every month since it opened and I travel regularly all over Spain and this restaurant is a good as the best I have found in Spain, and easily the best Spanish restaurant in London. It is expensive, but as a treat it is well worth it. I simply don't understand the comments about the staff, who I have always found to be friendly and welcoming. They now have a second restaurant in Fulham which I also enjoy eating in. It is more spacious than Northcote Road but has the same atmosphere and the cooking is just as good.

It is exaggeratedly expensive. And the food is much worse than what you would eat in Spain in an average restaurant (I lived for a long time in Spain).

Really disappointed with this place. I went there at 3pm last Saturday. Ordered 1 dish and after waiting 35 mins walked out - despite asking the waitress twice to find out how much longer I'd have to wait. What was most irritating was that a table of 5 that came in just after me were served first! Solo diner experience I think. I was really looking forward to some Catalan food having lived in Barcelona for sometime. There were a lot of staff who were friendly but didn't have the sense of efficiency normally associated for a contemporary restaurant.