Bar Tapas, Norwich

I really want to REALLY like Bar Tapas and I have been 3 or 4 times now so I must like something about it. Most of the time we have had lovely food, great service and generally a good time but there are times when I found the food is not quite up to scratch - which is a shame because the ambience is fantastic. I would recommend you try it at least once. One other small complaint - in my opinion some of the dishes are overpriced - I note on other reviews that this is a complaint and I think they are right.

Nothing bad at all, good service, authentic feel and best of all lovely food.

Good atmosphere, not too busy, nice spanish background music

Good food, and not long to wait for food after ordering

The best thing about bar tapas was the dessert menu. The lemon sorbets were amazing, made in a hollowed out, frozen lemon with the sorbet inside. Another nice desert they offer is a delicious coconut icecream, served in half a coconut!! Hadn't seen anything like these before, the waitress told me they got some of their desserts from a place in spain which made them.

Overall, would definitely go again. The tapas dishes are small, but thats what tapas is....its nice to buy a lot of portions and share them round, but it can get expensive at £4 a dish.

I think with the aim of keeping things simple, they've got the pricing wrong. Far too many dishes are £4.95, whereas with more subtlety, say by having dishes for £3, £4, and £5, would have made me want to order more. The tapas menu is also badly designed - just one long list rather than dividing food types, which would make building a satisfying meal easier.

We were given a basket of bread with something like six pieces in, and a dish of foiled anchor butter of all things. How Spanish is that exactly? The bread was really quite good, but at the top of the menu it implies that all orders come with a portion, so how we only got one throughout the whole meal, who knows?

Although everything I had could be a lot tastier, I was pleased to notice that they had not been tempted to use an excessive amount of oil, which often spoils dishes such as abidongas.

The chances are, you'll leave Bar Tapas in Norwich without any particular complaint, but without any memorable experience either.

The service at Bar Tapas Spanish restaurant in Norwich was very friendly, but the food was very expensive and not good value for money. It cost £4.95 fot two very average meatballs.

We enjoyed the food at Bar Tapas in Norwich, but the servive was terrible, could not get the waiters attention so could not order more tapas and when we eventually got the bill they had added on a tip even though the menu said that no service charge was added, staff were very rude and would not take off the tip!