Solea is an average to good tapas restaurant. There were few wow dishes. Highly recommend the special salad offered, the Lamb meatballs, and VERY spicy grilled shrimp mojo rojo. The rest of the offerings were all tasty and filling, but had very little preparation or...presentation. The cocktail drinks in plastic cups was a bit off-putting and sad actually. When you order their very tasty gimlet and in comes in a plastic cup not even half full($12), I almost sent it back. ( Granted this may be a City of Waltham ordinance for the outdoor dining on Moody Street, and as we hadn't dined down there this summer we do not know. ). The over all service was sketchy. Waited 10+ mins for a waiter who never came after we were seated. The hostess finally took our drink order. ...and then the food delivery was all over the place, to the point the our last 2 tapas arrived almost 25 mins AFTER our order was placed and AFTER we had paid the tab!! It seemed the busier the restaurant came the slower our food arrived. It went from table served 5 mins after placing an order to about 25 mins over the 75 mins we were there. (I do thank the manager who stepped up and comp'd those tapas and letting us take them home, as it wasn't something we asked them to do!) The biggest issue I had concerned our dining table was right on what was the Moody Street sidewalk, and walkers were still using the sidewalk for passage down Moody Street within 1-2 feet of our table. This isn't practicing social distancing!! Thankfully all walkers were masked!More
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