Mango tapas restaurant, Cathays Terrace, Cardiff review

Mango, Cardiff – Tapas nightmare - Restaurant review

Essentially the biggest let down since Transformers 2. I’d been eyeing this place up for ages. It looks pretty nice from the outside and you can’t really go too far wrong with tapas. However, Mango, on Cathays Terrace, Cardiff, managed to nearly wreck the night with crappy food, drink and service.

The first sign that things would not go well at Mango was a little black poo shaped thing on the table we were given. It looked like a nugget of rabbit dropping, but turned out to be a small chunk of minced beef. Either way, not a good start.

The nightmare turned Freddy like when the drinks came. Mojito’s sans rum is not great. Even when we sent them back, they didn’t come back any better. Mine was like a watery slush puppy with the occasional piece of mint floating in it.

The biggest let down was the food. We had tiny mussels with pitta bread that tasted like it had seen too many days in the bread bin, what can only be described as tinned lamb and mint meatballs and seemingly day-old, twice-cooked, marinated salmon skewers that could have been bought at Tesco the week before by the taste of them.

The staff were completely disinterested too. When you pay a good amount for a meal, you expect them to at least make an effort, but in Mango all we found was half arsed food & service and the atmosphere of a church soup kitchen.

1/5