El Gato Negro Tapas Liverpool

Without doubt the best Spanish food I've tasted outside Spain. Excellent tasty and beautifully presented. Great staff. Really genuine friendly service. Pricing spot on unlike the other Spanish tapas place down the Hill 🌒. We would be happy to bring anyone visiting from Spain (there's not many places you'd say that about). We had three dishes each then re-ordered twice more because it was so good. Beautiful wine as well. Our visit here will definitely motivate us to return to Liverpool sooner rather than later.

For me, it is the best Spanish food restaurant in Liverpool. The dishes were amazing, everything very tasty and well prepared. The place was well decorated, inviting. The service was great, all servers were very friendly. The only issue was the price, we thought it was a bit expensive given the portion sizes. Apart from that we really recommend it! We will be back! Thank you! 🇪🇸❤️❤️❤️

Haven’t been here since it moved location and I have to say that it’s much better! The new location is much cozier with better decor + atmosphere. Food has also improved with the tortilla now being made fresh every time. Loved the courgette flower but I would like to see more vegetarian options - maybe croquettes or something similar. Would have ordered more food but ran out of things to order!

Fantastic Tapas restaurant! The atmosphere and decor are super cool and the food was out of this world. Great service too - very welcoming. We loved it!

Not much more to say than the food was great, but the service was terrible. It took no time to be seated, as the place was practically empty, and the host was very friendly, but it went sharply down hill from there. It took forever to get someone to take our order, we asked for wine — it took ages to come, and then when it did, it came twice — two separate servers brought it separately, about two minutes apart. We told the second that we had already received our wine, and he seemed less than pleased. They were out of one of the items we selected for the charcuterie board — no big deal — but odd, given it was so early in the evening. Our selections took a while to arrive, but were delicious (the calamari was amazing), but then we saw NO ONE for ages. Finally had our server back and asked for coffee and another glass of wine for my partner — wine came, coffee didn’t. Partner finished his wine and we gave up on the coffee, asked for the bill — shortly after which the coffee came — lukewarm. It had clearly been sitting somewhere waiting to be delivered to our table. Overall, not the most terrible experience I’ve had in a restaurant, but not the best, either, especially when there is so much else to choose from on the same street. Would probably try again, perhaps on a different day of the week and at a different time of day to see if that made a difference in the service, and it would be worth going back for the calamari, but with expectations of poor service so that any improvement would be a pleasant surprise.

Bottomless water….always check reviews out so was really surprised at this one. I really like Sangria and read they bring it out in jugs so was really excited, however we didn’t get served for 20min and then the food started coming out before we’d even got our first drink. Finally got it and it was basically the worst Sangria I’ve ever had, just fizzy water, which yes came in a jug but was full of ice so we barely got 4 glasses from it between us, and then spent another 20min after ordering waiting for the 2nd round of drinks.. My partner stopped the guy in his tracks to get a third round (which was a single beer and glass of Sangria for last two rounds, because as much as it was rubbish it was either that or Prosecco ) or we likely wouldn’t of had that. The food was ok… I’ve had tapas a few times and this was sub par in comparison but if the Sangria had been actual Sangria and it wasn’t such bad service we would have been happy. Absolute waste of £80 and the worst bottomless we’ve ever done, my partner actually asked to remove the service charge which was something we’ve never done before, we always tip quite well.

Booked for a 70th party for our dad, pre order was required but that was expected and on arrival food arrived after about 30 mins. Table of 11 so by time we had drinks etc that just worked out really well. Staff were attentive give, atmosphere was great and service spot on too. Really enjoyed the evening. Special thanks to Lily who organised the pre order and booking process.

£11 😂😂 The Maître d (if that’s what you can call her), obviously thinks that having to serve the food herself is beneath her, having to cover for waitresses coming in on a later shift….as she threw the food down on our table, to scuttle back to her little desk at the front to play with her phone. Check out the £11 fries, speaks to the value for money. Disgusting attitude, average food, warm beer, terrible value for money.