La Tasca

The food was lovely! I couldn't fault them with that but the service was terrible! It took them 20 mins to take our plates away and then a further 10 mins to bring a drinks menu! When we was sitting at the table for 20 extra mins we had enough of waiting and payed at the bar and left! We would of stayed for more drinks but the survive was so slow! I would understand if the restaurant was packed but it wasn't the manager and staff were too busy talk amongst each other to notice that the had customers sitting and waiting for them to finish talking! I've had better service from other la tasca branches and didn't expect this!!!!! This has deeply upset us!!!!! Would I recommend a friend?? HELL NO!!!!!

This is the second time I have eaten at La Tasca. I found the food very tasty and the service - excellent.

My girlfriend and I have been going to La Tasca now for a couple of years and overall our experience has not been that bad. The food has been acceptable without ever being extraordinary.

My main complaint is that I’m not sure how much of their food is freshly made on site, I get the feeling many things are prepack and just heated up at the different restaurants (no really in keeping with the whole fresh Spanish tone).

You may ask if this was my opinion then why did I keep going back, well that is because my girlfriend happens to be vegan and it was somewhere that we could go eat together that offered suitable food for both of us. This was up until they launched their new menu. I one fell swoop they have managed to cancel out what was a USP for them as a brand to concentrate more on the mainstream meat eater menu. This is very disappointing from our perspective and a real shame as the dishes were so simple and I can’t for the life of me understand why they felt the need to change it. Very disappointing much like their microwaved food!

went on sunday 29 july .food ok but for the money not enough.my son is 8 and he had the chilrens meal which was ribs.he only got 2 small ribs.would not go back.

We love Spanish food, and so were looking forward to La Tasca. Our first foray was to Canary Wharf a couple of years ago, where even basics like Tortilla and chorizo were very poor and barely edible. The experience was so bad in fact, that we complained via the website. We did, in fairness, get a call from the branch manager, who was apologetic but philosophical about the quality of the food "it's a chain, what can you expect?" was her attitude. She offered me vouchers which she suggested we spent on drinks as we clearly weren't interested in sampling any more food. Predictably the vouchers never arrived.

Time is a great healer, so last week we tried the St Martin's Lane branch with equally disastrous results: the tapas were, almost without exception, woeful; the fried calamari for example was swimming in so much oil, the batter was falling off it. The surly staff couldn't care less – many of them were Spanish, so perhaps they were just embarrassed. Certainly the cheesy matador costumes they had to wear are a joke and would have demoralised me, for sure. If you have fond memories of eating great food in friendly restaurants in Spain, avoid La Tasca like the plague. You have been warned.

We have chosen this restaurant as we really wanted to eat some tasty Spanish food...but we were wrong. We started with some tapas and I discovered you can buy the exact same thing from Tesco for 2£..which is probably what they do..put everything on a plate, olive oil on top..and that is it.. client served. Than we ordered paella for 3...absolutely disgusting.. we received a huge pan of horrible rice with a tomato sauce, 3 prawns and 6 mussels on top..the taste was awful.

I will never go to that restaurant again and defintely won't advise anyone to go there ...better spend you money on something else.

We were a group of 9 celebrating a birthday. 6 of our party went for the party menu at 15.00 per head. The other 3 wanted the single paella at 9.95.

The party meals came out well ahead of our meals. When the paella arrived, we were very dissappointed. Rather then the 3 single paellas we were expecting and had ordered. We got a pan of paella. When we questioned the waitress we were told it was paella for 3! This was outragous, yes there was enough rice for 3 BUT only 3 prawns and of the 6 mussels 2 were empty at £30 this was a rip off.

The manager was called he qustioned if we had eaten paella here before - Not sure were that one was going?

We offered to pay 20 not 30 which he agreed, then we tried it and discovered the distinct lack of anything other than rice. Actually not worth 20 at all.

Gave up at this point. As they had no interest in pleasing their customers.

Went with some friends and luckily we found it all amusing as service was poor and food felt mass market rather than fresh despite waiting a long tome for it. They forgot to bring some dishes and also twice brought the wrong drinks. No real atmosphere in there and place needs some serious investment. Not good

RUDE service. After two out of ten people failed to give ID (When they weren't even drinking) the waitress went to the manager, and he disgustingly approached the table and gathered our attention by clapping his hands and barking out 'NO ID NO DRINKS' It was really not needed. He even separated the table from those who weren't drinking

Throughout the whole night he eyed us. Our drink glasses remained empty, not once did the waitress ask us if our meal was OK, or if we wanted more drinks, we had to get up and ask them. The food was slow, and not worth the money. Very small portions for what we got.

It was a shame, many of the guests left with hungry stomachs, but luckily the cake we made saved the day.

The reviews on this site seem quite harsh. I had my first visit to La Tasca last week and I was very impressed. The staff were actually Spanish and very friendly. The restaurant had a nice atmosphere. As part of a group of 16 people I wasn't sure we'd have enough food but there was plenty for all and everyone went home very full.

I would definitely recommend to a friend. The only possible downside could be the price, maybe not somewhere to visit often, or look out for any deals they may have on.