Barioja Tapas Bar

Dreadful. Been there once before and it was ok hence return. Perhaps its changed hands but nothing like the original experience. Standard of food really dreadful. Each of the tapas we ordered was covered in a horrible sulphur yellow sauce which they said was aioli (garlic sauce) tasted disgusting with no hint of garlic. Very small portions, horrible slimy squid straight out of a frozen packet. About one tablespoonful of Patatas Bravas which were burnt, and the tiniest piece of tortilla which was also very overdone and dried up. Service awful We walked out. !!!

Very uplifting atmosphere - This place was crazy on the Saturday I was there with friends...I have been to their restaurant Iggs with my girlfriend and thought i'd try the tapas bar - WOW service again was cracking but so different everyone was bouncing having fun, music was almost Latin lounge Ibiza like and we decided to have the Unlimited Chefs Tasting Menu @ £19.95 per person inc dessert ( A cracking choice for 4 hungry guys) The food was brought quick and so much of it, great choice inc prawns, choriza, meatballs, squid, tortilla etc... Great food, cracking ambience and the young Manager was a hoot!! Thanks for a great night!

UNFORTUNATELY BARIOJA AND IGGS HAVE NOW CLOSED

This appears to be a restaurant with two distinct areas: Tapas Bar and Restaurant which is Iggs next door. We ate in the Tapas bar as we needed to stay near the train station to pick up a friend and I really wish we hadn't bothered.The service was cheerful and friendly but incredibly slow. We ordered cava which sat on the bar for so long we almost went to get the bottle ourselves. I made a point of saying was it cold still and the waitress assured me it was...it wasn't! The only table available was (we subsequently discovered) by a draughty door. We ordered about ten dishes including Gambas al Ajillo and a few others like the cheeses and hams and the morcilla.The whole of the food served looked like a very tired collection of bits thrown on to the plates and did not set the taste buds going in any way. The portions were also small. The impression I gained was that this had not been recently prepared. The mussels were largely colourless, tasteless and decidedly limp. The sauce they sat in was only luke warm. The Calamari could have been tepid rubber bands. The whitebait was neither crisp nor hot. The prawns were dull in complexion and flavour.The Gambas al ajillo were again dull and limp. Plus all the dishes had different mayonnaises like saffron alioli and lemon mayo etc. but were all acutally the same cheap squeezy mayo.All in all one got the feeling that this was a tapas bar that did not want to give the impression that it was concerned to entice customers back and thereby create a regular clientele.We paid up and left quickly and went round the corner to Monteiths for some better food and some good wine! Something I wish we had done before walking through the door!

I've wanted to try this place out for some time and finally took the plunge to go here on Friday evening. The place was pretty busy upstairs so we were seated downstairs. The interior design is trendy but there are a lot of hard finishes - timber etc, no curtains or soft upholstery to absorb the sound, so it was quite noisy!The staff seemed really stressed out and busy too, which made the experience quite tense. As soon as we arrived they got confused with our booking. Service was slow and they didn't work very well as a team and that's the only reason I give this tapas restaurant a 2star rating. The food was lovely, although a couple of dishes were warm, not hot - which probably had something to do with the disorganised waiters/waitresses.Wine was nice though. The tapas were served two or one at a time, which is fairly common for a tapas restaurant. Patatas bravas, king prawns in garlic and chilli sauce, croquettes and meat balls were all really tasty and just as good as any other tapas I've had. Although the mussels in chilli cream sauce did smell a little fishy. I'm always a bit wary of mussels but thankfully there were no undesirable after effects!The downstair area soon filled up while we were there and the couple behind us made a big song and dance about the service, long waiting time between each tapas and cold food. I thought they were being a bit over dramatic and it put a further dampener on our evening, however they were soon handed discount vouchers and sincere apologies to shut them up! I did feel sorry for the waiting staff as they were obviously under staffed and it was a busy night. I would return, just maybe on weekday night, rather than a weekend when they are less busy.

None of the plates were well cleaned and had bits on them. The food was just ok..nothing memorable and to really insult me... they served me Corona with a wedge of bloody lemon!

We ordered the set mixed tapas menu for 2, which should have consisted of 8 dishes, we were only served 6.....some dishes were forgotten and it was not pointed out that the dishes shown on the menu were not the ones we were actually served!! for example - racciones- served on 1 plate was apparantly classed as 2 tapas!! dessert was included, however we didnt get that either...Service very poor & slow...it's La Tasca on Charlotte St all the way for us!