Cigala

Excellent location for a client lunch, service was relaxed so don't go there if you're in a hurry. Set lunch is good value for the quality of food.

Best tapas in Bloomsbury - we've been coming back for 2 years and this visit was best ever. Highlights are the chipirones land the orange tart.

lovely place, good food, amazing Fideua in London !!! very happy for the evening !!! croquetas y tortilla en su punto, very Spanish !! well done Cigala..

Good food, drinks came regularly and bill was decent (35 pounds a head for 7 people) - but perhaps needed one extra waiter or waitress

Fab tapas, excellent wine, v hot padron peppers - oh, and a little Pedro Ximinex thrown in for good measure - all adding up to a great night out!

Maybe I was just lucky - it was a warm day and I met an old friend at an outside table. The waiter was not the fastest, but I didn't care. His attitude was friendly and cheerful, he recommended exactly the wine that touched the spot with both of us, the simple menu delivered things that were prepared to perfection. I had a marinaded chicken kebab to start, and then sea bass (said it was simple). I stayed a long time, and there was never a hint that I should pay the bill and move on. Works for me.

Delicious meal and friendly service. The varied tapas contrasted with and complemented one another well. s The pudding we had was excellent as was the wine

Great food, very fresh, great service, delightful dinner for five before going on to a show. Spanish wine list is extensive and brilliant. Highly recommended.

Cigala was for many years one of my favourite restaurants and although the food is still excellent, since the recent change of ownership, the service is utterly shocking. This is my third visit in the past month ; I am obviously a glutton for punishment and the service has got worse each time. It too 2.5 hours to serve us one course and I had to ask for coffee three times before it was served. The manager offered some compensation by not charging for the coffee or bottled water but it was still a very disappointing evening.

Wonderful relaxed lunch - good quality and delicious food. Excellent value lunch menu with good choices to select from and a huge paella as a main course.

Wonderful food and wine, tapas is fresh, there's a good variety of tapas dishes to choose from. It's not cheap, but the quality of food and the ambiance more than make up for that.

Service could be better, but then they always seem short-staffed in Cigala. Food was delicious and very filling. The tapas is over-priced and the bread portion seems to have been cut.

Great food in this atmospheric local Spanish restaurant. Be careful not to order too many tapas to leave room for a paella. Efficient and friendly service.

The food at Cigala is excellent. Good ingredients, well cooked, elegantly and simply presented. The tapas are great, they also have a set menu lunch and dinner and a la carte. I had the grilled calamare a la plancha with mojo verde - nicely caramelised and beautifully presented, Bacalao fritters with aioli, Ensalata primavera and Chicken livers sauteed in Pedro Ximenez sherry - sweet, rich and unctuous. Pudding - a very rich dark chocolate and almond cake/tart thing was delicious. Good house red. Bread and olive oil was very nice but a £3 extra. Cost and service let the occasion down a bit. Over £50 for tapas seems a bit much to me and then they add on "discretionary service" daring you to take it off. I may have been unlucky with the lad who was looking after me - he seemed new and nervous. Aside from dropping things, he seemed to forget a lot of things - his bill pad twice, to take the order , to get the water, to bring a bill. Either service is a fixed cost in which case it is non discretionary - fine, lets just be clear about that. Or it is genuinely discretionary for good service - in which case don't presume to put it on the bill.

Lovely food . Pleasant staff and really like this area .. Red lion st and Lambs conduit . The house wine good value and it feels like good value .

Food good, a bit noisy and crowded but the service was reasonably good. I would have liked more engagement between serving staff and us, as the restaurant has a lot of specialist dishes and guidance would have been good. But all in all a good dinner.

Always like coming here: pleasant staff and generally very good food. Three of us had the set lunch which didn't reach great heights on this occasion but was just OK. It won't stop us coming again.

Excellent. Back to its best. Fantastic food and great service. Lambs Conduit Street always a great place to eat - central but without the sheen of the City and the madness of the West End

Always good always consistent and nice atmosphere. Have been a number of times and will definitely go again very good standard of tapas and in the lovely lambs conduit street

Delicious tapas, authentic and tasty. The sangria is a must. Went as a table of 4 and ordered 3 dishes each which was enough for us. Thanks!

Food was delicious, as ever, and prices seem fair. Staff were friendly and obliging. When the restaurant begins to fill up the noise becomes hard to bear.

The food was delicious - subtle combinations of flavours; and the staff were right on the nose with recommendations. It came quickly and we never felt rushed during the course of our meal.

Great food in a relaxed atmosphere. The service is very friendly and unobtrusive and it's a great place to watch the world go by as you eat. A bit like Spain really!

The food was delicious. Loved the fried anchovies and the chicken livers were superb as was ther rest of the meal. Great atmosphere. Highly recommend this restaurant.

Good food, "humble ambiance", good, friendly service , great quail, very good skate, have eaten here several times, lots of outdoor seating, interesting neighbourhood, lunch particularly good value

Nice food, good service, extremely civilised atmosphere. It's never cheap, but overall I'd say this restaurant warrants the bill every time. We would - and do - go back

My wife, Liz and I had an excellent lunch and were delighted with the very attentive service. The food well- presented and delicious. The tapas starters were tasty and the paella unctious. We will be back again soon.

Soooo good ! Amazing paella with chicken and chorizo ... and awesome deserts !

Lovely relaxed atmosphere, friendly and attentive staff. Bright and airy decorations. Excellent tapas menu with a good selection. I would definitely go back. Highly recommended

very good tapas; very friendly and helpful staff.;the gambas and serrano were excellent;if you like quail, it was first rate.overall, an excellent meal which we have repeated.

Great food and friendly service. The tapas menu always good and then bigger dishes if that is your thing. Can get full and noisy but if the weather is good there is always outside!

Realky excellent food, efficient service, excellent wine list plus opportunities to sit outside in this elegant area of Central London. What's not to like like?

Very good restaurant, a bit inattentive on service side, but food and ambience trump it. The paella is fantastic, the deserts are nicely more than the usual and prices are fair

Reliable as ever and very pleasant. Excellent fish. Admirable sherry and red wine by the glass. Friendly service and nice ambiance so everything was good.

A very relaxed well run restaurant, a good venue for simple lunch or big night out. Very good food, top wine and nice service, a rarity!

Always reliable food and service. Wine choices are excellent. Restaurant has great local atmosphere with a good buzz of conversation. Always try to eat here on trips to London.

Very pleasant atmosphere. Excellent service and very competent kitchen. Wines very acceptable (Godello from Monterrei is excellent value). Overall, a very pleasant experience, and will return soon.

Service was slow and the atmosphere was non-existent. They also do this awful thing of adding the service charge on the bill as standard. I know a lot of restaurants do this but come on, at least make sure 1) your service is not slow 2) your waiters/ waitresses know what the food on your menu is like (my waitress couldn't advise on a dish) 3) your restaurant offers a pleasant atmosphere (no music in the place, bare walls with no decor) 4) you actually welcome us when we enter your restaurant Food was very good but sick and tired of restaurants expecting a service charge when the service is nowhere near deserving this.

Great food and friendly staff. Went for a business lunch was able to chat without being overheard well spaced out and the Paella was spot on. Will definitely be back.

Very nice Spanish restaurant, with an amazing seafood paella. We shared 6 tapas in 4 people before having the main, and they were all good. Also the sangria jug was interesting.