Tasca, La - Leamington Spa

Carol & Louise (16 March 2008)

I have been to La Tasca twice now for lunch and had very good service and lovely meals. The surroundings are very pleasant and comfortable. We have found on both occasions that the staff have been very friendly and polite and we have enjoyed a relaxed lunch and will certainly be going again. My daughter too has been on other occasions and equally enjoyed herself and the food. The special tapas deal with drinks is certainly very good value for money.

Matt Smith (31 January 2008)

We arrived at the restaurant and were shown to our table promptly and given menus. Nearly fifteen minutes passed and we still had not received our drinks, so we asked the waitress if they were on their way - she apologised and shortly after, the drinks arrived.

We observed a table near ours complain about their tapas. We were on the verge of complaining after waiting for our food for half an hour, when it arrived. Not all of our tapas dishes had been brought out but we thought the rest would follow as the waiter's tray was full - ten minutes had passed and there was still no sign of the rest of the food so we complained again. We had received a dish we hadn't even ordered and the waitress apologised and wrote down what we hadn't received after which we got told that they had run out of one of the dishes. The food was substandard, greasy, tasteless and not warm. There was no way we were going to order more despite the fact we were still hungry as we didn't want to wait. We again observed a group having to complain. The only positive comment I can make on this place is the waitress was very pleasant and helpful.

We went to a nearby pub for a pint and stood at the bar talking about what a terrible meal we had just had - the bar maid said, “did I hear you say you have just been to that new Spanish place, it's poor isn't it, I went there at the weekend and it was terrible”. To sum it up, we had a terrible experience.