La Plazuela 2015
Tendido Cero

Tendido Cero

174 Old Brompton Road London, SW5 0BA, United Kingdom

Tapas • Basque • Cheese • Spanish


"On Sunday I went with my partner to tendido cero. I was really excited about it because I know in tendido cuatro there was the only place in all london where you could eat proper paella. As tendido cuatro is now closed we decided to...go there and enjoy a typical sunday paella. We order a few tapas as starter and as usual ham croquetes and bravas were the best and you never can go wrong. Padron peppers didnt have salt and gambas in garlic had taste of chorizo. (Maybe cooked in the same pan and not washed properly? Maybe they used oil from the chorizo to fry the gambas? Who knows) we asked the waiter and he said that is not normal but must be the garlic... we left it like that but we left 2 prawns out of 4. The ham was excellent as usual and the tomato in cristal bread was great. The biggest disappointment comes when the paella came. It tasted like rice cooked with tomato. Rice was overcooked and no taste of saffron or prawns in it. I was totally shocked by this change and made me feel extremely sad the fact that I won’t be eating good paella in london anymore. The waitress was very nice and understood completely the disappointment. We left the full paella and they didnt charge it in our bill. We spend a total of 168 aprox. And we left the restaurant very disappointed. If I ever come back probably is because the service is great, and the ham, the croquettes and the bravas are outstanding and differentiated to other spanish restaurants in london. Please sort this out ASAP or definitely you will loose customers who really enjoyed going on sundays for paellas and tapas. Just to add, that we were not the only table who sent a paella back as another table near the door didn’t like it too."