I really don't get it. Tasting menus for those who don't know better? All those posh foodie-style things you hear Gregg Wallace say on MasterChef replicated in a semi-professional ready meal? Catalunya, home of two of the world's most iconic restaurants ever. Reduced to:Croquetas: why bother with just an authentic Spanish Béchamel when you can add undercooked potatoes "to give it some crunch"????Patatas Bravas: surely you can't mess up such a perfectly simple dish? Oh, yes you can. It tasted musty, more aioli than Bravas sauce. Totally uninspiring. Chicken and mushroom. Fine until you tasted the bergamot in one of the side sauces. Even the more than palatable wine served with it was dulled by the overpowering grimness of the bergamot.Tomatoes: massive textural issues. the pa amb tomaquet had clearly been made some time beforehand judging by the soggyness of it, although it tasted fine. The olive oil caviar was tasteless and texturally solid. Deconstructed Paella: Acceptable and flavoursome, although the pickled mussels were probably from a jar and the squid ink rice cake was so so dry, it was uninspiring. Pork rib with sobrasada and £9 extra prawns: pork moist and delicious, the sobrasada was mixed with so much filler, it lost its charm. The prawns were fine. The bean stew was literally overreduced baked beans from a can ( not Heinz)The crema Catalana: flavoursome and delicious. Along with the wines the reason for the two star review. However, given it is Catalan week, I would have expected the wine selection to have been at least Spanish. Would I go back? Possibly, but not in a hurry
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