Latino

This restaurant was an absolute delight. Everything was overwhelming!! I was so surprised. I'd recommend it to everyone. It was so refreshing to find something so perfect.
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Richard Pilton
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, September 20, 2008

What a relief to finally try a spanish restaurant that had fresh authentic and not precooked food! I dined there last Saturday with some friends that I had not seen for 2 years, so was keen to impress with my knowledge of the spanish language and their tapas. The waiters were all spanish speaking and were very happy to put up with my pigeon spanish in my attempts at ordering.

The food was delicious and there there was an excellent choice and variety on the menu.We had a selection of tapas which were devoured by everyone, even my vegetarian friend seemed spoiled for choice, and the house red was also very good.

We were also surprised at the bill which was very reasonable for the amount we devoured.

The staff were very friendly and the owner who was also working and was an absolute delight.There is a real spanish feel to the restaurant. The atmosphere is really relaxed with latin music playing in the background. My friends were very impressed and will definitely be dining there again as will I.
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Linda Perera
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

I dined at Latino with friends at the weekend and what a mistake that turned out to be. The tasteless food was over-priced and the service was very poor and as a result we were charged 10% of the bill without any warning of an included service charge.

Olives were given to us at the beginning of the meal on the understanding that they were free of charge, which of course we ended up having to pay for, twice we had to ask the waiter to bring our table some butter which of course never arrived and then one of the deserts we ordered had to be changed, and this was all topped off with then we having to wait almost 30 minutes for the bill to arrive after the restaurant owner had obviously lost our bill and had instead sent over a fabricated one with items that we hadn’t actually ordered.

By her fourth attempt and with the assistances of my friends to help edit the bill, I was told that the service charge would still stand even though I thought having to wait 30 minutes whilst their incompetent owner and staff tried to remember what we had actually ordered. However, I think the real low point of the evening came when the owner stood by our table in an irate mood, raising her voice and speaking in Spanish when only a few of us could understand her insults.

I wouldn’t recommend this restaurant to anyone and I certainly won’t be going back there again.
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Mark Rogers
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Food 3 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 2
Monday, June 16, 2008

Always a treat, good service and the tapas is lovely - apart, somewhat mysteriously, from the chorizo which I tend to avoid. Other than that, great.
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Mark.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Just returned from a first time visit to Latino. It looked as if it had everything right - intimate lighting, rough-textured walls, hubbub of happy people, but in fact was hugely disappointing.

Service was almost non-existent: after waiting almost 10 minutes to be served we had to ask for attention, and when our first tapas arrived, we had to request plates off which to eat it.

Food was bland and over-priced. The tortilla and fabado were tasteless, and the boquerones were obviously straight out of a tin. When we complained about the chewy calamares our waitress made a display of feeding it to other staff before arguing with us about it. To be fair, however, we were offered a replacement dish.

I couldn't recommend the restaurant, and certainly wouldn't go there again.
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Jon B
Saturday, January 12, 2008

The food is nearly always good here (on rare occasions something might be only 'above average'). The service is always excellent, though and the food reasonaly priced.

The atmosphere is always great, even if a party's going on - it somehow doesn't seem to intrude too much, and never impairs the service provided.
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Saturday, August 25, 2007

my husband and i had a beautiful evening, the food was fantasmagorical, the ambience was whatever you wanted, whether romantic, party or chilled and the service was lovely and friendly, not too in your face but definitely present!

fabulous!!!
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Daniella Reaney
Saturday, March 10, 2007

My partner and I went here last week. The food and wine was excellent. The paella was very good.
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T&L Food Reviewers
Friday, December 22, 2006

I've been to this place about 4 or 5 times now and it's really nice to be able to go somewhere really relaxing and un-rushed to enjoy top notch tapas with the quality you would only expect in Spain. Cheers.
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James Clarke
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

I love this place. I moved to Hove about 2 years ago and have been back with my family and friends. They were all impressed too. The staff are great and the food is fantastic - a great place for sharing dishes. I always have the Grilled Prawns when I go as they are lovely. My boyfiend is also a Vegetarian and he has alot to choose from.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006