Sevilla is a Spanish city, it is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville and the forth largest city in Spain, hence Claridges New Delhi named their Spanish speciality restaurant after the beautiful city of Sevilla. Sevilla is located at the ground level of the hotel behind the main car park and as you enter this restaurant somehow light enters your life in a vague sense of the word and brings a new meaning to the colour white in your life.
Picturesque ambience with glowing blow torches, hanging lanterns, meandering streams of water, White curtain clad cabana's, candle lit tables, slow romantic music humming in your ears, and the feeling of being one with nature sitting besides the love of your life just makes Sevilla a restaurant par excellence and a romantic place to die for. I would simply sum up Sevilla as a place which is more about the experience of Romance in the terrific setting than about the wine and the food. With music playing in the espaniole setting and with wine flowing you feel love flow in your veins as you would sit holding hands sipping wine with your amour (lover).
Inspired by Mediterranean and Spanish cuisine influences, Sevilla has a menu which just blends perfectly with the soft, rustic romantic setting. One tiny detail - The restaurant is open for dinner only and signature specialties on the menu include the tapas, paella, wood fired pizzas and the house special sangrias. Only that one has to be prepared to shell some great amount of money for this world class experience. If you want to pamper yourself or pamper your loved one then you are inn the right place, my dear friend.
For a fairly formal dining space, the service is far too patchy though . It has to be toned down much more and the experience was slightly marred by staff who seemed to have been trained in a very strange way and certainly didn't seem to listen or understand their customers well. They need to be little more courteous and hospitable, and don't need to give you a feeling that you might not be rich enough to dine in a place like this. Besides the sour service rest everything was perfect and spot on.
The place is simply magical, and the garden setting simply transports you to in time to Spain and you feel you are in a vineyard sipping wine and this feeling fills you up in a very exotic mood.
They have an open kitchen too with wood / charcoal fired ovens for giving the pizza's the smoky favour. Howeverr summers can get little warm if your seated on a table besides the oven.
We were seated in our little oasis in the open air and offered a very delicious, red wine, with a thin triangular flat bread much like a tortilla with chilli flakes and parmesan adding the right zing. The bread whose dough is made of toasted cereals called Gofio which is a staple of the Canary Islands of Spain. Then came some smoked duck we ordered with roasted walnut and pears. I was inspired to try this dish on the recommendation of my foodie friend Yummraj. Salut, bro, the dish was exotic, and simply divine. The duck was supercalifragilisticexpial
Then came Amuse Bouche - the textures of watermelon in their signature tapas style. It looked truly unique and tasted even better. Then came the platter or patatas bravas and Mushroom croquettes which I found pretty average and tasted like bread rolls. And I was so excited when my favourite Calamari (squid) arrived on my table with the Lamb Albondigas. The Lamb was nice, very juicy, succulent, mildly spiced, but the Calamari was bland. I was sad. Super sad.
For the main course we had chargrilled chicken breast and their signature sea food paella ala Valencia. The chicken was so nice served on a bed of potatoes and mozzarella. The Paella was nice, but had a little bite to it, it was my Ist time with a Paella so wouldn't know if that's how the texture is supposed to be, but was great with some prawns and some squids in between, loved it.
For dessert we had a fresh fruit Gelato and a crème Catlan. Oh Lord the Crème Catlan was fantabulous. A nice crust on top browned with a blow torch with the right amount of sweetness tasted super divine.
Final Ratings:
Food: 3.5/5 | Ambience: 5.0/5 | Service: 2/5
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