La Tasca - Leicester

I visited La Tasca last night with my wife, looking for that 'Tapas Experience' but was left asking the question...'Do any restaurants actually serve decent food these days?'. To fair and honest the waitress was the only Plus to the whole experience, she was bubbly, polite and efficient. I thought hard about complaining since it was '£10 eat as much as want tapas', but inspection of the main menu confirmed that the dishes served were available at full price! The Calamari came to the table pretty much uncooked, The Chef and the waitress should have spotted this, it was obvious when you saw it coming of the kitchen for other diners! The Patatas Bravas looking liked small frozen chips with a tomatoish sauce ( answer me this, if tomatoes are red...how is it possible to make a sauce from them that isn't red?), the mushrooms were bland, the chorizo cheap and nasty, the tortilla very bland and the paella dry. It all begs the question about the owners of the chain, do they really think they are delivering a good product? Would they dine in a La Tasca? When they agree dishes for the menu what criteria do they use? or do they just have a Gerald Ratner approach to customers? Good to see that they couldn't screw up the Bread though, but maybe they tried? At the end of the day the dishes served are not complicated, even a poor cook could russle up something better at home!
At the risk of sounding all Michael Winner.....The desert was passable, but served with a tepid Espresso that had to be remade!
The thing that suprised me was that there appeared to be an abundance of manager types in the restaurant but one waitress. But what were they managing or supervising? as it certainly wasn't the quality of the food!
So there you go, I wasted 90mins of my life going to La Tasca.....so you don't have to! Trust me, go somewhere else or try making it yourself at home! The wife will love you more for doing it!