Spanish Restaurants in Fitzrovia
1. Salt Yard
Spanish restaurant in Fitzrovia
54 Goodge St - W1
“The original Salt Yard in W1 used to be one of London’s best new tapas restaurants” – but it opened over 15 years ago and “the subsequent roll-out of the brand as multiple branches” under Urban Pubs & Bars “has seen quality drop quite a lot”. As “a pleasant option for well-produced Med-inspired dishes”, they maintain a fair number of fans, if without the pizzazz once conjured by the name. The year-old branch near the entrance to Westfield is the highest rated, and the newest near Borough Market is also seen as “a handy addition to the group”.
2. Ember Yard
Spanish restaurant in Soho
60 Berwick Street - W1
2021 Review: Up-and-down reports on this “lovely” Soho haunt, specialising in wood-fired, Mediterranean, grilled dishes – part of Salt Yard Group (all of which was absorbed into the Urban Pubs portfolio in November 2018). Fans applaud the “delicious tapas from this ever-reliable family” but quite a few reports express disappointment: “maybe there’s a sense it isn’t quite what it was”.
3. Barrica
Spanish restaurant in Fitzrovia
62 Goodge St - W1
2022 Review: “A wonderful menu with a good choice of tapas to suit all tastes” again wins recommendations for this buzzy and good-value bar on Goodge Street.
4. Ibérica
Spanish restaurant in Fitzrovia
195 Great Portland St - W1
This “buzzy but very noisy” Hispanic quartet (in Marylebone, Farringdon, Victoria and Canary Wharf) offers a “good range of tapas” and “interesting wines by the glass and the bottle”. They still have plenty of admirers as a “reliable” option, even if they “no longer provide the novelty or the high standards they once did”.
5. Arros QD
Spanish restaurant in
64 Eastcastle Street - W1W
No-one, it seems, told star Spanish chef Quique Dacosta (whose Alicante restaurants hold three Michelin stars) that you don’t launch an ambitious foodie venue just off the shopping hell of Oxford Street. This impressive-looking four-year-old – complete with a large open kitchen – offers high quality grills, with the speciality being a selection of paella dishes. Feedback remains quite limited (not helped by its location) – neither huge criticism, nor huge praise is present.
6. Maresco
Spanish restaurant in Soho
45 Berwick Street - W1F
“Not a place for a quiet tête-à-tête: instead climb up to the bar and dig into a mixture of fine Scottish fish and seafood, prepared as Spanish-style tapas”. That’s the culinary mashup at Stephen Lironi’s new “Soho seafood heaven” – a “lively, albeit slightly cramped” space with “lovely and engaging service and a fun atmosphere” (“as long as you are sitting upstairs” – downstairs is “a bit small and dingy”). On the downside, it can seem a bit “hyped” – “they need to smarten up if they are going to charge such high prices when you are perched on a bar stool”.
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