Patanegra

I should have listened. Definitely 0 stars. I don't write reviews on restaurants but my experience at Patanegra on 7/22 forced me to create an account. I went to this restaurant with an open mind although my friend from Spain who went there a week before told me she would never go back there again because the owner was rude.

Our evening started well with the hostess being friendly. Our tapas were good and we were enjoying ourselves until our paealla was delivered. I was very surprised at how small the serving was for a $40 paella that my daugher and I ordered. Worst of all, when we were in the middle of eating I noticed something stringy. When I pulled it out it was very obvious that it was hair and completely lost my appetite. When I brought it to the waiter's attention he went to talk to the owner and when he came back he told us that the hair doesn't belong to the cook and that it probably belongs to one of us.....I was mortified!!!! When he saw how upset I was he went on to tell us that he wish he could do something but the owner would not allow it. I guess all the previous post about the owner and the pricey paella are true.....I'm just glad I just found hair and not a push pin, too, like the other customer did. I'm definitely not going back to this place and we've told all our friends and officemates not to go to this place either.  View Less … View More

Condescending Waiter, Burnt Food, Overpriced: Don't Bother!. 0 stars! Probably the worst group dining experience I've every had. The waiter was condescending and rude, had no interest in being helpful. The food is vastly overpriced for what it is. The portion sizes of what they consider "large" are laughable. They don't sell ANY wine by the glass (only by the bottle). And the vegetarian paella, along with being not even good (I cook better at home) was burnt on the bottom, BURNT!!!

I suppose we didn't complain about this only due to the fact that our group was so eager to get to get out of this dreadful place. Terrible terrible restaurant that we will never go back to, and we'll be sure to let everyone we know how bad this place is. We all felt annoyed by the experience, and the waiter, and felt completely ripped off.

The only redeeming thing was the fantastic company, but hey, we can take our company, and our business, elsewhere.

I'm truly surprised that this restaurant is still in business. With the way we were treated, I don't see how they'd ever have a repeat customer.

PS - And this was without any Groupon deals that the others here are complaining about. We went in and paid full price (over-priced) for everything.  View Less … View More

Chef Ramsey needs to spend a month here!. We came with good intentions, with Groupon in hand. We odered RED wine by the glass, and it was SERVED CHILLED. The first few tapas were QUITE BLAND. OK, so the dates here suck compared to TORO BRAVO. There's still time to salvage the meal. The sausages were bland and salty, the carmelized onions probably made a week ago in a crock pot. The STEW was actually luke warm, and tasted like it was prepared by an amateur cook. We complained about the cold stew and were not charged for it (nor did we eat more than one bite). The positive reviews must have been with another chef and owners, as there's no way anyone could honestly compare this to anything but smorgasboard food. I thought for a moment that we were being filmed for a Kitchen Nightmare episode. We're now 0/3 on GROUPON, and I felt compelled to review this place on multiple sites with the hopes of keeping you from eating here, it really is POOR. The one star is for atmosphere, and a good waiter.  View Less … View More

Can we get a push pin with that?. So my girlfriend is in to finding new venues around town to try and loves using groupons and patanegra was the place to try for the night. So we made reservations for 8pm on a Saturday night. Looking forward in trying their Paella it was brought to our attention that the paella was not part of the deal on the groupon, so we look on the paper the groupon was printed and no sign of that detail anywhere. Surprised, we ordered some tapas with some wine.

The tapas that we tried were: goat cheese wrapped in grilled eggplant, cod fritters, tortilla espanola, scallops wrapped in ham, and a lamb shank. Each tapas tasted all right, but not too impressed. When the Lamb shank arrived, which was the last tapas, I stripped the meat off the bone to soak up the juices in the bowl. The first bite I took I felt a sharp object in my mouth, thinking it was a bone from the shank, to my surprise it was a PUSH PIN TACK.

What the hell is this doing in my dish, right. So I ask the server to see the manager about this problem. He gave me a bunch off BS that the manager was too busy and that the other customers are suffering from this...What the ? I say and I wanted to see him ASAP! After a number of attempts to see the manager the server said he would take care of the tab and give us a dessert. That's it!??? So I ask for the groupon back and he gives me some grief of it already in the computer and can not refund the groupon. Last attempt to see the manager, who never comes, guess he is to embarrassed over this. I know I would be! He refunds the groupon and we leave very upset!!! But lucky for both of us that no blood was shed, right. SO BEWARE PDX and watch for objects in your food!  View Less … View More