La Tasca
Snapshot
- Area
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Clifton
Park Street - Cuisine
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Spanish
- Price
- £25+
- Tags
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tapas
chewy squid
paella
Ratings
- Overall
- 2.8 stars
- Food
- 3 stars
- Service
- 2.5 stars
- Ambience
- 2.8 stars
Opening hours
- Monday
- midday - 11.30pm
- Tuesday
- midday - 11.30pm
- Wednesday
- midday - 11.30pm
- Thursday
- midday - 11.30pm
- Friday
- midday - 11.30pm
- Saturday
- midday - 11.30pm
- Sunday
- midday - 11.00pm
- Alfresco dining
- Child friendly
- Cover charge
- Disable WC
- Disabled access
- Group bookings
- Open bank holidays
- Parking
- Private dining
- Quality wine cellar
- Reservation required
- Smoking area
- Special dietry
- Veggie friendly
- WiFi
Savour the flavour of España without leaving town, thanks to Bristol and Bath's favourite Spanish restaurant, La Tasca.
Step inside and experience a warm welcome from the new management at any time of day, and at any time of year as La Tasca re-creates a little corner of Spain with a sunny Mediterranean colour scheme, stripped wooden floors and tables and authentic fixtures and fittings.
Choose from a fantastic selection of tapas, from chicken breast cooked in white wine and garlic, to mixed salad leaves with sautéed mushrooms and Serrano ham. Or try a paella with seafood, meat and vegetarian options available.
During the summer months, La Tasca also boasts an open terrace, perfect for enjoying those balmy early evening cocktails.
Restaurant Reviews
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Disappointing Food
Rating - Overall: 2 Food: 2 Service: 2 Ambience: 2
22 Mar 2009
Quite a large selection of tapas dishes are available and are divided on the menu into meat, fish, vegetable and salad. We ordered quite a range of dishes and overall the food was relatively disappointing. The chicken and red pepper skewers probably being the worst dish, two very small skewers of very dry chicken arrived with a small side of leaves. The meat in this tapas dish was probably equivalent to half a chicken breast. I struggled to find the red pepper, it being comparable in size to half a postage stamp.
The squid was rubbery, the patas bravas were nice as was dish of chorizo. The mini carne paella was dry and the portion was too small.
Best dish was probably the chorizo and the apple and sultana salad. Dessert, a pear and cinammon tart had a nice hint of cinammon but was obviousl ya mass produced frozen afair that had elastic pastry courtesy of being microwaved.
Service was slow but friendly enough and although prices are fairly low they are overcharging for the standard of food. Last but not least - the chairs are uncomfortable and there's little ambience. There are much better tapas restaurants in Bristol - try El Puerto (City Centre) or Ocean (Whiteladies Road) and skip this chain restaurant.
Visited: March 20, 2009
What I ate: chorizo, patatas bravas, squidThis review has no responses yet
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Tapas, no thank you
Rating - Overall: 1 Food: 1 Service: 1 Ambience: 2
8 Mar 2009
Went to La Tasca on a girls night out. What a disappointing experience. Service slow. Two dishes forgotten. Waiter insulted us by saying we ordered too much (we ordered what another waitress recommended) and that we are eating more than the four big butch men at a nearby table. Most of our food was vegetables! Me as a vegetarian found out that several of vegetable dishes were not suitable because they were fried in the same oil as chicken. Food was flavorless, greasy, lacked seasoning, potatoes undercooked, salad soggy, paella not great, aubergines bit tough with odd aftertaste. Just awful. The only nice tasting thing was the wine.
Visited: March 7, 2009
What I ate: Tapas selectionThis review has no responses yet
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So much food!
Rating - Overall: 4 Food: 5 Service: 3 Ambience: 3
6 Jan 2009
Our party of six decided to order three 'Selection of Tapas' - which say they are for 2 people each - as they came with a bit of everything. When dish after dish arrived at our table we couldn't believe our eyes! There was so much food that try as we might we couldn't finish it all! Tapas is great for anyone who can't decide on what they want as you can try a little of everything. There were loads of lovely dishes in the Chefs Selection and Meat Selection - especially the meatballs; aubergine topped with cheese; fried potatoes with spicy tomato salsa; paella; chorizo sausage and the tortilla omelette - which were all fantastic. As for the service, although we were forgotten about at first and weren't able to order for about 25 minutes (and then were asked for our order by three different people!) the waiting staff were friendly and we weren't in a rush so no probs!
Visited: August 31, 2008
What I ate: Chef Tapas Selection and Meat Tapas SelectionThis review has no responses yet
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True Spanish Food
Rating - Overall: 4 Food: 4 Service: 4 Ambience: 4
22 Oct 2008
I've always liked La Tasca. The ambience and many Spanish and Latin staff and tasty food make it a great place for a party. Try the wedge chips they're very moreish.
Visited: April 16, 2008
What I ate: tapas and paellaThis review has no responses yet
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