Monica S.
Yelp
Le sigh. Okay. This one kind of sucks for me because the place itself is cute, it's inside a historic building and has Al fresco seating...but it left us scratching our heads during our entire visit.
We did arrive towards the end of their shift, so that was on us. We were seated promptly. Our waitress was very nice. I think the menu is supposed to be Spanish, which, lol, but okay. As your locally annoying (actual) Spaniard, I'm always out to call these so-called tapas/Spanish places out because they're 99.9% not Spanish at all. So of course I wanted to try the patatas bravas. Well guess what? They were out of that. Okay, I chose some pasta dish. Guess what? Out of that too. Okay...can I have your burger? Sorry out of all potatoes unless you want a side salad. Lordt. Ok... what DO you have?? They starting listing a LOT of things they were also out of. So their small menu dwindled significantly, including their drink menu.
We ended up having to pick the pine nut pasta (full size), the pimiento whatever, the meatballs and some drinks. Remember how they were out of things? Well we got served two of the regular 3 meatballs and the waitress said we would be comped for this. Okay...at this point we were expecting our food to not even come out because why wouldn't they run out of it as it's being put in?
We get our food and I liked what we got. The meatballs and the tomato sauce definitely reminded me of my mom's sauce, so that was a plus but again, we got two small meatballs. My pasta was very filling and had an extremely light flavor, which if you like pine nuts, then you'll get it but my husband had the biggest gripe with his perception of it being flavorless. In fact, we added the meatball tomato sauce and it became 80% tastier. The pimento dip was tasty but oddly cold. Our drinks were fine.
As we asked for the check, we were not comped for their meatball fiasco. We told the other waitress, who brought the check. She said, oh you're that couple? Let me fix that for you. She never returned and our waitress came by and has to go back in to look for it...and brought it back without any changes and left. At this point we were frustrated. We decided not to press on this and just not tip. Well she came back as we were filling it and asked if we had been comped. We said no. She literally said, oh gosh I don't want to affect anything, let me go change it. Uh huh. Clever girl.
Would I recommend? Sure, for a drink and app after work if you're local. Otherwise, there are other places in Tacoma that are better and similarly priced.