What do you call a restaurant that tries for fancy and tries for ambience and tries for culture, but provides nothing of substance? I don't know what else to say except that I made the mistake of focusing on the positive reviews of the restaurant to pick it for a last night on a vacation trip and now I wonder about the positive reviewers. Have they really been to spain? We had a strange encounter with the host, and then with a pretentious aggressive waiter by the name Raoul who insisted that he be consulted on our menu selections and his entourage of waitresses were hovering about wondering why we had not emptied our plates. Somehow, an oversalted hard piece of cheese with some glazed onions literally drowning in balsamic vinegar does not scream out ""spanish"" to me. Somehow, spooning a salty soup into my bowl and dropping a few dribbles of olive oil into it, while providing a fancy presentation, did nothing to improve the underlying dish. Shameful how many reviewers (whom I relied upon) were taken in by all the smoke and mirrors and forgot what good food was all about. Maybe they don't get out much. I would rather go to a hole in the wall and be served better food at a better price than what is provided in this over-decorated over-done over-noisy excuse for a restaurant. It even won awards! Surely the residents of salt lake city should know better! Come to NY, and we'll show you what good tapas is all about.
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