Boqueria is a trendy Spanish tapas chain with decent light bites - Review - Atlanta - The Infatuation
"Spanish tapas restaurant Boqueria fits right in with Colony Square's restaurant cluster—spacious and trendy enough to make your team's Wednesday lunch feel like a Friday Happy Hour. The national chain's first Atlanta outpost has a cool floating island bar, lighting that feels like a permanent sun glow, and tall leather chairs you’ll need a rope and carabiners to scale. But most of the tapas ($9-15) could use more seasoning. The roasted chicken wings are covered in a za'tar sauce but still bland. And the unflavored seafood paella—loaded with mussels, shrimp, and squid—is more tolerable when hijacking sauce from the much-better gambas al ajillo dish. While the space is swanky and the energy is upbeat, Boqueria is a place for meeting up, not filling up. Food Rundown photo credit: Jacinta Howard Chicken Wings In Atlanta, your flats and drums have to come harder than this. The roasted za'tar chicken wings are saucy, but the meat is bland. Gambas Al Ajillo Garlic shrimp swim in a flavorful lobster reduction. It’s the best thing on the menu. Maricos Paella The salsa verde goes missing here. And while it’s loaded with mussels, shrimp, and squid, the rubbery seafood seems more likely to have come from a Pier 1 Imports than an actual fishing pier." - Jacinta Howard
