This review may be a litle wooley... so apologies - it's pretty difficult to write a review two days on from way too much pre-Christmas booze with and after a meal - but here goes...
I booked La Salsa for myself and a couple of friends in lieu of a "real" Christmas get together, as circumstance and family commitments have meant we needed to celebrate early. Bolton is hardly the nerve centre of gastonomy, and so I wasn't expecting much of tapas in a Bolton style.
This review would have been somewhat easier if I had written a few notes - but La Sasa isn't that kind of place. It's a nice medium size eaterie, with a good, sort of, relaxed party atmosphere. Even at 7pm it had a good buzz and full tables. The staff are very friendly and helpful too, which adds a little something to the atmosphere.
They have a "special", all you can eat for £13.50 deal - which in the spirit of three guys out for a night of drinks, seemed appropriate. It turned out to be great value (I'm somewhat dubious about the concept of "all you can eat", as psycologically, I fear it will be horrendous, cheap, abbatoir scrapings - the good news is that at La Salsa, it wasn't). Our lovely (Latvian - we played guess the nationality with her) waitress was a little confused when I handed her the menus and said "surprise us". After the bemused clarification that we would eat whatever the chef chose for us, she went away for a couple of minutes and sent out the manager to double check... it seems that nobody had done that before. He appeared to be happy with this and started to bring out the food.
I can't say I was blown away by anything in particular, it was all pretty good - there weren't any bad dishes, just nothing outstanding. As I noted earlier, specifics are a little hazy at this point, but we were served a nice selection of chicken, fish, prawns, mussels, a little feta salad, paella, potatoes, a little beef stew, meatballs and mushrooms. My only real complaint was the bread served with olives and dip - just too lightweight and thin.
So... La Salsa.... not really a place to take the missus or to go on a date to, but a cracking, good value, pre night out with a few friends joint. Two rounds of tapas for threee plus two bottles of house red (very drinkable) came to a nudge over £60 - we chucked £25 a piece in, which seemed right and set us up for the night ahead.
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