Tapas Bar

[Marillionboy]

Anyone know the name of that Tapas Bar on Union Street near Bruce Millers and whether it's any good?

(This is certainly my weekend for random thread starting! More to follow.)

[Guest Tam o' Shantie]

damn, that's a really random question.

the only one i know of is la tasca, and it will never leave my memory as being one of the oddest meals i have ever had (not the food itself - the paella was fairly normal)

[Marillionboy]

That's the place, ta!

So what was so odd about it?

[sludge]

it an absolute rip off.dont bother.

it has a very nice interior and its a good place to take a date or something but only for drinks.

the food was really dissapointing and well over priced.Most of the dishes tasted similar and a fair majority of the meat just deep fried.The same tomato sauce was used for a variety of the dishes aswell.For like 4 quid a pop youd be better wining and dining in the likes of bar chi or howies.Would probably work out about the same price for a couple of coarse and a couple of drinks than it does for 7/8 pissy tasteless dishes with an exspensize bar.

[Bobby]

a fair majority of the meat just deep fried.

sounds ace!

[Guest Laura@TMB]

sounds ace!

LOL Bobby - you could do with fattening up a bit!

Never been to the place myself, so can't comment. Have heard varying reports though. Since it's part of a chain of restaurants, I've always imagined that the food served would be unimaginatively mass produced, microwaved, re-heated and deep-fried crap, so have steered clear of the place.

[Marillionboy]

Thanks for the advice, cross that one off then. What do we reckon are the best places for a meal in Aberdeen in terms of simply nice food? For me I've always found La Lambarda good and The Light of Bengal.

[Guest Hon Jonda]

Thanks for the advice' date=' cross that one off then. What do we reckon are the best places for a meal in Aberdeen in terms of simply nice food? For me I've always found La Lambarda good and The Light of Bengal.[/quote']

blue moooon BLUE MOOOON!

[Guest Tam o' Shantie]

order must have taken at least an hour to arrive. we ordered fresh bread, starters and then a main course. once our starter had arrived, i waited 5 minutes then pointed out that we were a little thirsty, so they took our drink order. then i asked them if we were still getting bread, so they took that across, then, some time later, they took over someone else's main course. i asked them if we could have the dish that we ordered. another 5 minutes passed then we got what we wanted, along with the sangria that by now i needed about 5 bottles of. the sangria was quite nice, but in the end we were quite full after a bit of paella so maybe ate half of it - it was pretty damn bland.

during the course of the meal, at least three waiters/waitresses must have dropped the plates they were carrying. i'm sure it was 4 in total, startling and irritating me each time. I quipped to the woman accompanying me to the evening "I thought this was a spanish place - are you sure we didn't book a GREEK restaurant instead?" she was in stitches, i have to say. the onyl saving grace was that we got a discount for reasons that i do not wish to specify.

[Guest Tam o' Shantie]

Thanks for the advice' date=' cross that one off then. What do we reckon are the best places for a meal in Aberdeen in terms of simply nice food? For me I've always found La Lambarda good and The Light of Bengal.[/quote']

for well priced, authentic sicilian food served the right way, excellent service and great atmosphere, don't hesitate for a second - call rustico on union row. it is without doubt my favourite restaurant in the city and i always leave having spent less than 15 bucks, usually closer to 10

[Guest Tam o' Shantie]

Bom-diddy-bom-da-dangalanglang-ba-dang-a-dong-ding-dong

*ahem*

The aforementioned Howies is a really nice place' date=' good food and service. I've been there a couple of times and never been disappointed.

Silver Darlings by the harbour is superb but pricey, best for a special occasion.

The fish restaurant on the green...is it Verde? Never been but I've heard great things.[/quote']

Verde wasn't bad but a bit pricey, as far as i remember my girlfriend of the time was in a total fucking mood about something or other (pretty safe to assume this) so that kind of ruined my meal. i do however recall that the viniagrette dressing was awfully sweet which tasted a bit odd and not too pleasant. however, i also had a prawn dish which was lovely. it doesn't just do fish either.

[Guest Hon Jonda]

o'neills do the most wonderful seafood dish and its not too pricey.

[sludge]

the Nargile across from the noose and monkey.

its a turkish restaurant and its all taps based.Its amazing.So much food - good service and a real diverse taste in each dish.try these out to...

Howies

jewel in the crown

pacific winds

panino

the square

and of coarse

PAPPAGALLOS!

[A.Pel]

Aye, you're talking about La Tasca.

It's a good place to go before you hit the tiles into town; basically order fuck all to eat and plenty of wine. It only becomes expensive if you actually want to eat a full meal (about 6 tapas dishes). I have also heard that they play music and let you dance at the end of the night, but I've never stayed long enough.

However I do have to say they are one of the only places in Aberdeen that does mussels in garlic sauce and nice mushrooms.

[Rachie]

La Tasca was taaaasty... but aye, prices = high. Careful if you're going in for a snapfax discount, they take the "management reserve the right to withdraw offer" smallprint new to this year's very seriously.

Personally I like Chi Bar, Jasmins and Saigon. I love my Chinese food.

Nargile was nice, a bit different, I'd never tried Turkish food before, for the most part I enjoyed it.

[Miss Groupie Supreme]

as far as i remember my girlfriend of the time was in a total fucking mood about something or other (pretty safe to assume this) .

Oi! Wasn't that the place with the scary ceiling fans and shiny knives, the small place where you are shoved in with no room to pull out a chair. Oh and fish. Hey, I think we covered all of my pet hates in one meal.

[spellchecker]

i thought la tasca's was pretty shit. the food was waaaaaaaaay too salty.

i found pancho villa's was better for spanishy food. it's where via milano used to be. i think.

[Guest Laura@TMB]

My current shortlist, in no particular order, would have to be:

Bistro Verde

Cafe 52 (do a range of tapas in the afternoon?)

Cafe Panino

Carmines

Hungary Eater

Nargile

Nazma

Royal Thai

Rustico

and for a very, very special occasion

The Silver Darlings

[Miss Groupie Supreme]

I like the Tapas place and encourage you all to eat there

[Hog]

blue moooon BLUE MOOOON!

Yeah! The Blue Moon is awesome.

Also try Christos the Greek place.

[connie]

Oh, I ate at La Tasca's once, and it was a blast. But I think that was just because I went with my two best friends, and we had lots of sangria. I think the food was alright, but aye, it was really over-priced.

But we made the boy pay for it, so I wasn't bothered.

[Alexandra]

When I lived at the old fire station, I shared a flat with two Spanish guys who worked in La Tasca. I'm not sure if they still do. But I haven't risked going there incase they do still work there. They were really weird.

I've heard the foods nice, though.

[Rass]

I cant remember the name of the place but two doors up from pizza express on summer street there's a tapas place, we went there for our christmas staff meal last year, it was awesome!!!

[Uncle Mog]

The food is crap in la tasca, I've been twice and almost puked cos its mingin. Its all prepackaged frozen stuff that just gets heated up.

There's a place called the moonfish cafe thats meant to be amazing for tapas down behind Gap I think. La Bonne Baguette down there used to be excellent as well, not been for a few years though.

[Guest Hon Jonda]

The food is crap in la tasca' date=' I've been twice and almost puked cos its mingin. Its all prepackaged frozen stuff that just gets heated up.

There's a place called the moonfish cafe thats meant to be amazing for tapas down behind Gap I think. La Bonne Baguette down there used to be excellent as well, not been for a few years though.[/quote']

La bonne baguette was gutted by a fire last year