Rioja Tapas Restaurant

I ate out at Rioja with my husband for our second time on 26/7/20. We ate in the outside area at around 7pm and it was lovely; the staff were great, all our food was on time to say how busy it seemed to get inside and we thoroughly enjoyed it. My favourite tapas dish was the ‘Chicken in White Wine Sauce’, it was yo die for. The only issue we had is whatever family had booked the smaller one of the two pods for the night as they were very disruptive and you could tell they just wanted to cause trouble. I heard at the end of their night when they left, they tried stealing a speaker which just sums up the nature of some characters that smaller restaurants have to deal with (probably regularly). I expect them to leave a bad review here because they are so immature and don’t realise how that affects a restaurant that only tried to help them enjoy their night which they took entirely for granted. To wrap it up, the experience was amazing, staff was great, drinks were moderately fast and at the end the meal, the bill didn’t actually end up as expensive as I expected. Oh and the food we ordered was really nice, I recommend around 2-3 dishes per person (Unless your a bigger guy like my husband who had 4 plus my leftovers 😆) Thank you Rioja for a great meal with my husband, we will definitely be back again!

Last weekend we ordered several takeaway tapas on the day we were all due to fly to Spain. We ordered both meat and veg dishes plus desserts. We collected the food from the rear of the gardens and the staff we delighted that we had put such an order in. They were very friendly and helpfull and everything was wrapped and packed ready for us. The food was amazing and all at restaraunt quality and in the sunshine of our own garden it really felt like a small bit of spain. Thankyou to all the staff for their effort and heres to them opening fully as we will be back there as soon as possible and we all hope that they continue the success they deserve.

Great friendly place and the food was excellent. Pam who is part owner but soon to leave (a real shame as she was so welcoming) and Poppy both looked after the 4 of us in our pod 😀 Would definitely go again. The pod is £100 to hire but gets knocked off your food and drinks bill at the end. We ate and drank quite a lot and was very full at the end of it and the total bill came to £125 so we only paid £25 as the deposit was knocked off the bill. Worked out around £31 per head for everything. I award it 5 stars 👌