DC Restaurant Review: Sabero

Another restaurant review, another meal, will my fond memories of dishes past be triumphantly relived or will my stomach be disappointed yet again.....


Gambas---

Sabero is relatively new to the Cleveland Park Scene...a tapas restaurant in my neighborhood. How exciting. From the past few blogs I have been yearning for a Spanish lifestyle. i want to have a Plaza Mayor with fun tapas bars that don't get started until midnight. I like that life style. So when I found out that a tapas bar was coming to CP I got excited.

Will I get to hang out and have my tortilla de potata and cafe con leche???

We got there at 800pm and there was not much action in the place. Maybe I need to wait for midnight for the people to come out?

Went to dinner with some friends and we orderd beef empanadas, a brazilian pulled chicken tunover, gamabs, patatas bravas, an avocado and seafood salad, and jamon croquettes. Overall the food was good...nothing spectacular...but it did bring me back to Spain. i guess thats all that really matters. Yeah right, Saberos is a hipster bar that serves tapas. i dont think it will be here in the spring...when the palce would rock with patio seating. The decor is too mood and the food doesnt match up. The food is frankly plain old bar food. Now, i didnt try any entrees but thats because when we have tapas who needs a big heavy meal.

The Jamon croquettes didnt taste of jamon serrano. In fact it tasted more of bacon and manchego. That being said this was actually pretty good. The patatas bravas were neather crispy and the sauce was sup par or bland. The empandas rocked the house. It reminded me of the empanadas from Camilio's family...yummy as shit I could have had 90 of them. The brazilian chicken turnover or a chicken empanda was awesome. The dough was a little crispier versus flaky and was well seasoned. The gamabs were mediocre, atleast it wasnt the crap from Xabia. The avacado was a good but the seafood slaad was too heavily mayonaised.

Will I go back yes, I need my spanish fix. If they would just serve Fanta!

If you need a fix of spanish food come on over.