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back
to: Spanish restaurants in
Manchester |
near Opera House |
Longworth
Street, off St John's Street, Manchester, M3 3BQ [map] |
Tel:
0161 839 8819 |
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mins walk to the opera house |
one
of manchester's hidden gems - superb basement tapas
restaurant near the opera house,
popular with local doctors & barristers [amend] |
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El Rincon De Rafa Restaurant Manchester - overall reader reviews
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most
popular dish:
chorizo al vino (spicy sausage in red wine)
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El
Rincon De Rafa Manchester Tapas Restaurant - reader
comments
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| "I
really enjoyed my visit to El Rincon and taste the food,
some people have recommended me this place and I was
looking forward to the visit. I am Spanish but lived
ten years in The Uk and I missed the Spanish food. The
restaurant has the typical Spanish atmosphere
and all the staff Spanish and friendly
I felt like at home. The quality of the food
was fantastic. I have to say of all
the Spanish restaurants in the Uk is the best food I
had. It didnt bother me the paper tablecloths
that is what you really find in the Spanish restaurants,
at least we bother to put tablecloths, things that you
dont find in many English pubs, for instance. I highly
recommend the visit"
- ana, stafford 6/7/07 (visited on a saturday evening) |
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"Amazing
- we go almost every Saturday lunchtime and although
being packed always get a table.
We always order fillet steak, new potatoes in oil, cumberland
sausages and alioli of the specials menu, and gambus
pil pil, morrocan kebabs and patatas bravas. Their house
red is lovely and cheap. Everything we eat
is spot on, and I like that
you get each tapas with space in between..
the staff are typical of Spanish waitresses not
over friendly but if you order or try to order
in Spanish they seem much more friendlier. Do visit,
you will not be dissopointed. See you there next Saturday
lunch"
- karen mcvay, partington 24/6/07 (visited on a saturday
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"I've
been looking forward to visiting this place for such
a long - I've heard so many rave reviews and I've been
turned away on many occassions previously because they
were so busy. On reading Nancy's review (below) it prompted
me to visit for lunch - the place was packed even though
it was around 3pm. Like all my previous unsuccessful
visits, we had to endure the 'invisible man' role, hanging
around in the doorway for ages waiting to be seated.
Eventually we were shown to a table and the service
didn't get any better from there. Our dishes
all arrived at completely different times,
almost 5 mins between each other, OK if you're sharing
as a group. Less so, if like us, you were ordering one
or two dishes each. The food itself was very
cheap, nothing special but good value
for money - the black pepper steak tapas is
highly recommended although my usual favourite, the
octopus, less so. Drinks are incredibly cheap
and I'll definitely be revisiting the bar if not the
restaurant. The decor is very traditional and
ouzes character whilst the atmosphere
is buzzing. Sadly, the paper napkins and tablecloth
distract from this as do the shabby toilets. All in
all, it's a great place to catch a quick bite
to eat at a great price - just don't expect
top class food or service."
- matthew, manchester 15/6/07 (visited on a friday afternoon) |
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"It
was a weird experience. When we arrived
we were stood around waiting for someone to come over
and show us a table. Then when the waitress took our
order they forgot to bring us something. All the different
tapas arrived at different times. The
salad that came with the Morroccan kebab was not
fresh at all. And the waiters weren't
that nice, they never asked us if everything
was alright or if we wanted more drinks etc. One of
the toilet doors was not working and
the door in the other toilet was really hard to close
the door and to lock it was even worse.... spend quite
a while struggling to lock only to find that there was
no toilet paper!! Food was ok
- nothing special. Doubt that I'll be returining."
- nancy, manchester 15/6/07 (visited on a thursday lunch) |
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| "Excellent
restaurant, dishes were slightly spaced out
which was just perfect, gave us chance
to eat them without other dishes going cold. Cant wait
to come back"
- amanda warham, bolton 29/5/07 (visited on a tuesday
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