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Great food! Really enjoyed the hanger steak and tortilla! The chaurcuteria was ok. Atmosphere was lovely. Prices are abit steep for the quality though…
Janny Nguyen
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People travel to Barcelona for different reasons. I go there for food in the first place so I was really happy to see this place open. Unfortunately a…
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Went with a Spanish friend of mine. Daily Paella was 45$. It was burned, way too soggy and tasting like diluted beef broth and burned rice. When I tol…
Jonathan Duchesne
Espana Restaurant
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9 Reviews on “Espana Restaurant”
Went with a Spanish friend of mine. Daily Paella was 45$. It was burned, way too soggy and tasting like diluted beef broth and burned rice. When I told the waiter, he told me that it’s the way a paella is supposed to be. I’ve had paella’s before in Spain and so did my friend and never a burned bottom has been acceptable. It is supposed to be crusty, not burned. Also, when my Spanish friend asked for no onions in his tortilla he was looked down at by this blonde and arrogant waitress who told him that onions was the base of a tortilla. Who cares? He doesn’t want onions in his. She just repeated that it was the base of tortillas and refused to take onions out or to explain why they wouldn’t. Like we were stupid people who didn’t know a thing about Spanish cuisine. This restaurant is pretentious and the service is terrible. Why would you ask how the meal is if you’re not going to do anything about it? Never was I offered apologies by the staff. They made it clear that I was the stupid customer. Bill including tips cost me 98$. I would have rather spent a 100 bucks getting punched in the face that would have been a more authentic and enjoyable experience. Stuffed deep fried olives were good but didn’t make up for all the wrong the staff and the bad cooking did. Avoid this restaurant and go eat sushis.
Patatas Bravas were great. Chicken liver pate on toast was ok but didn’t blow us away. The Quail was shredded and heavily spiced, so we couldn’t really tell it apart from, say, pulled pork. Finally the Paella, which was seafood-less that night, opting instead for mushrooms, truffle paste, and thin slices of cured pork. We specifically asked our server if they served it with a socarrat (crispy rice crust), and were assured they did. Alas, they didn’t. However, to their credit, they took our complaint in stride and made an honest effort to rectify the situation short of redoing the entire dish (we wouldn’t have wanted to wait another half hour for a redo anyways). Still, it was delicious. Service was polite and friendly which went a long way to smoothing out the bumps.
I like the cozy setting at the restaurant, foods are really good. I would recommend small group or date night at Espana. You should go early to avoid long wait.
Ordered the daily paella – squid ink seafood paella, one of the best paellas I have ever had! Definitely one of the dishes I will remember for the rest of my life.All the food we had were superb! Glad to have an authentic Spanish restaurant in town that I can frequently visit!
Hard to find authentic Spanish cuisine in this town. Everything’s so tasty. The Paella is better then the one I had in Barcelona! Highly recommend.
I love the no reservations policy to this restaurant because it means it’s not exclusive to anyone. Opens at 5 for dinner. I decided to come here for valentines day with my girlfriend. Host was very friendly. Sat us at the bar. It was nice, cozy, contemporary. Danielle was our server and she is amazing. Her suggestions made our experience very memorable. I would suggest anyone who is eating here, really do sit up at the bar it’s constant attention and better service up front.And as for the food? Whoa… On a night like this, very sexy and teasing. We ordered the special tonight which was the Ox heart with fried artichokes, fingerings, puree sauce, fried garlic chips and fried rosemary. JUST AMAZING! And the Flanker steak with potato porchini puree was sooooo flavorful. The fried green tomato salad with quail eggs Holy smokes out of this world! We asked Danielle about dessert and she suggested the Panacotta. Let me tell you something, there are very few servers in this industry that can suggest amazing and I mean amazing plates with genuine opinions about flavors. She knows what she’s doing. She romanced her plates. The Panacotta was sooooo refreshing with basil and blood orange. I am definitely coming back here and I’m making sure I’m sitting up at the bar with Danielle serving us. This place gets 100 percent for service and culinary experience. You can feel the love in those dishes. Wonderful wonderful valentines date night. I just had to tip bigger then usual. Thank you Danielle for a amazing memorable valentines day.
Disappointing service for what they charged, food is decent. I almost ate around most of Vancouver but tbh I barely write reviews but I really want to say sth about this one.I went there with my bf while ago and the food was actually tasty though it was not cheap, I have been to Spain before to eat tapas and I wanted to taste it again in Vancouver. We ordered BBQ meat on stick and the stick was extremely hot but the waitress didn’t warn us, my bf took one without paying too much attention and almost burned his fingers, we then told the waitress she should have warned us but she denied she was the one who served, I wasn’t satisfied with her response and talked to the manager(or I guess he is the owner), he came back to us like it is actually common sense that it is hot and it is just us (being dump) not noticing it, he said it for sure in a nicer way but he meant it. I just think even in McDonald I won’t expect service like this, food was good but it is also expensive for what it is, will never go back!