Barrafina Adelaide Street London - Buy Reservations

I literally told my mother to be silent so I could enjoy the taste to the fullest. The service was great as well. Try it for sure!

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Rather cramped interior and uncomfortable seating on fixed bar stools to the floor.

Great view of the kitchen similar to a chefs table.

Ordered 6 dishes:
3 fantastic: tortilla with prawn, monk fish, tuna carpaccio,

3 Average; the padron and the Patatas brava and the pan con tomato.

The negatives are the seating and the small portions.

Positive: amazing tortilla - best I’ve had and the great fish dishes.

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We called in for a light lunch yesterday. We ordered hake (delicious), prawns (a bit over cooked due to a chef telling a younger chef to put them back in the pan for longer - they didn’t need it!), artichokes (wonderful), baby gem lettuce with bacon and anchovies (good, but sharp dressing). We washed this down with a carafe of their cheapest white wine (no piping paying more - £24, very nice). We shared a cheesecake (lovely and light). I’ve taken a point off for the overcooked prawns and the fact they don’t serve tea. I was told ‘it’s a Spanish restaurant’. I replied that we’re in England and in Spain you can buy tea in restaurants and they have tea shops!!! Overall Barrafina is good, but they need to attend to detail.

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After trying several tapas restaurants, Barrafina is surely the cream of the crop. Not the most extensive menu (but a lot of specials) and you will pay a pretty penny. Having said that, everything is tip top quality. The prawns, for example, tasted so incredibly fresh. Would certainly recommend this for the quality of the food. The one negative, I felt, was that as there were four of us, they put us on a table downstairs - and that just isn't the same experience as dining at the counter upstairs. You certainly feel a bit ignored down there and that detracts from the visit.

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We always go to Barrafina Dean Street when we go to London, and our evening there this time was spoiled by queueing for over an hour behind an incredibly loud and annoying man who gave the impression that he was on drugs. So a good job that we were booked into Adelaide Street the following night with no queueing involved, and a charming Irishman sat next to us. The kitchen was run brilliantly by the chef who was kindly guiding his kitchen staff, being encouraging, not intimidating. We had John Dory and hake specials, chipirones (tiny fried squids), jamon iberico de belota, and one of their divine individual tortillas. If you like Spanish food this place is like heaven.

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Barrafina was by far the best restaurant i’ve been to in london. The food was amazing and the service was exceptional. It was relaxed in the best way possible, the food came out quickly but not in a rushed manner. Everything we ate was delicious, the tortilla was perfectly cooked, runny in the middle but still firm. The prawns and tuna were exceptional. We tried lots of little dishes, all were worth the money and exceeded our expectations. We finished with a cheesecake special and a delicious cheese board. The cheese was ridiculously delicious, we later found out it was rated the best cheese of year. The puddings ended our night on a complete high. If you want to choose anywhere to go, go to Barrafina for an amazing evening with brilliant service with amazing food.

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It is thrilling to report that one can once again pay a small fortune for really average food in central London. Barrafina has been around for a while and was, in its infancy, a great place to take a date and enjoy some decent Span-ish food for reasonable money. Hence the queues out of the door. On this night it was pre-booked by tourists whose guide books had told them to go there, and 20-somethings with more cash than sense. Dining a la Ramsey circa 2007.

So having weathered the Covid storm while so many small restaurants have drowned, Barrafina is now able to relax and cash in. A dinner of £8 croquettes (x2, fine), £10 tortilla (absurdly undercooked), £8 pimientos (small, no live bullets), £18 (!) for 2 x chicken thighs in a cloying Romesco sauce, £32(!!) for a block of tepid sirloin in a bloody jus, and £12 for a salad of lettuce, anchovies and pancetta (actually ok, still bloody expensive), plus 4 x small beers and 4 x glasses of red = £160 pounds sterling.

Tapas used to be served free in Spain along with each drink, and get progressively better with each round. Tapas should be fresh, quick, tasty and cheap. This is not tapas. It is slow, overwrought, under-flavoured and ludicrously expensive food, a menu of meh with the occasional hit.

But hoorah and hurrah - the pandemic is ending, and this is the proof. Time for all the young chefs to start sharpening their knives, tie on those aprons and pile in to the metropolis again. Carve up the old guard and let's see what the end of WFH brings to the table, venga!!

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Went with friends who had been to other Barrafina restaurants. We all enjoyed the food which I would rate as excellent. Service could have been better, bit slow and forgetful. However I’d return.

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Was a bit disappointed the last time will service. They now take reservations. Which meant they were a bit awkward with seating us right as they opened.

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