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Indianapolis, Indiana
COME ON PEOPLE!
I’ve eaten here several times, tried my best to eat everything on the menu and keep wondering why this place has a ton of people in it whenever I walk by. This place is a hoosier version of a Spanish culinary tradition and it is…I have to say…the worst attempt at the tapas trend I’ve tried. It’s mostly filled with a younger crowd and I have to venture to guess that it’s due to the cheap plate prices and that demographic not having had the real thing.
This place has sloppy, lazy renditions of some Spanish classics yet tries to be casually elegant in presentation. I don’t think there’s a single imported item in the kitchen and even with the simple classics they miss that it should be about great ingredients. I’m embarrassed to say that our table actually laughed at the Sangria and sent it back.
I’m sorry…I want to support something like this place…especially downtown…I really do! But I just can’t get over the large elephant in the middle of the culinary room; This is lazy, cheap food that isn’t even very tasty.
If the food wasn’t odd enough? The staff is young (as you’d expect) and they seem to think that just because they’ve been told what Boquerones and Almendras are that it comes with a degree in snotty. How about actually preparing food well first?
