Cubatas (West End)

• Glasgow is awash with new places to eat and drink
• Trying to balance it is tricky so only the best will survive
• S almost like restaurants are auditioning for the city in those first few months
• I feel for new passionate restaurateurs that are trying to turn their dream into a stable day to day living
• I first heard about Cubatas through Yelp and other bloggers and it was all compliments so more than enough to convince me
• Restaurant is in Elderslie Street in the old Ashoka curry karaoke building
• Cafes and bars that it is starting to spill over into side streets like Elderslie Street
• It also came with the bonus that we could park right outside
• Tapas always appeals to me because I always want to taste a bit of everything so the menu was always going to work in my mind
• T sure how many to pick because some of them are much cheaper than what you&rsquo
• Their chicken skewers are priced at £
• The size of the olive portion was far larger than we&rsquo
• 1.50 but we were not complaining
• D never heard of but that was well suited to a mix of dishes
• Tortilla Espanola is usually what I use to suss out what I think of a tapas restaurant
• Cubatas version looked small because it was cut up but I think if it had arrived whole I would not have noticed
• This is clearly a well practiced dish with its well seasoned
• Indulgence we ordered bacon wraps with chicken and melting cheese
• The flavour scale was impressive and we were impressed
• We tried the spicy Mexican rice with onions and peppers
• T convinced that it held its own against the other dishes and I would have enjoyed it better with some jerk chicken or something similar
• The last dish to complete our first set was torpedos de chorizo &ndash
• Quality chorizo warm from the oven with the slight crunch of pastry
• Tuna salad was next and we both felt it lacked a zingy dressing
• This translated into potato gratin and it is a dish that I choose often as its too indulgent for me to justify making at home
• It arrived on the table and we were confused because it was not a gratin &ndash
• We gingerly tried it and it was really very tasty
• A certain success but the menu could do with a description change
• A short gap and desserts were calling us
• The chocolate and strawberry ice creams were a delight and I would happily order them again
• The crema catalana was the real star here
• It was superior to most with notes of citrus and a delectable creaminess
• Gambas pil pil and mushrooms with black pudding
• T bowled over by was the greens
• The rest were delicious and proved to me that my first visit was not good by chance
• We had planned to have a pint in the beer garden that the manager was building when I had visited the first time but it was bucketing down
• I was watching how the serving staff were interacting with other customers &
• The eating out scene is multicultural and varied with Spanish food joining the pack

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