Phone: +33148072520
Address: 143 rue Amelot, 75011 Paris, France
City: Paris
Dishes: 15
Reviews: 104
Website: http://www.elrinconespagnolparis.com/bar-%C3%A0-tapas-paris-et-pa%C3%ABlla/nos-tapas
"We dined at El Rincon after purchasing a Groupon deal and as I write this, I am reminding myself that I really should do a websearch BEFORE I buy restaurant deals! We booked successfully with the online reservations system and the owner was really...good about letting us change our reservation due to a clash with another dining engagment. The paella when we received it (was cooked to order) was nothing special certainly enough for two people but I detest overcooked seafood (langoustine was mushy, calamari was chewy), so we really should have stuck to the first instinct to order the Valenciano option. While it was quite tasty it was not crunchy on the bottom and it was certainly NOT valenciano (bomb) rice I think they used arborio (round) rice so it was more like risotto in consisentency. We felt under pressure to order a tapas the prices were ridiculously high per serve, so we resisted and ordered one dish only to share. The wine list was disgracefully high. The cheapest bottle was about and this for an ordinary little restaurant. We perserved with M'sieur for a house wine and were pointed to a tiny little square on the carte du vin which denoted House Wine at per The listed price for the paella on the menu was a staggering for How anyone would state that paella offered here was pure spanish, has never been to Valencia and eaten the proper the proper dish. I have to mention the entertainment Just to give the whole place some added spanish feel the owner had the large screen turned to (and turned to the whole restaurant) a live bull fight. Yes folks sit right here waiting for you dinner and you too can watch a large wild eyed bovine being tormented to death right before your eyes picadors jabbing the slavering beast in his **** shoulders, terrified horses with their eyes bandaged being charged and gored by the bull in his rage... oh yes... step right up... the bull unable to go any further but tiny tired circles, camera cuts to the matador with his steel eyes and insolent stare as he carefully aims his sword... and thank god... the owner changes the channel."
All prices are estimates.