Ziryab

Ziryab: A Gorgeous Room, Miscast as a Restaurant

Ziryab presents itself as a crossroads—fusion, dialogue, borders dissolving into something new. The space helps sell the pitch: it’s beautiful, thoughtfully lit, and designed to feel like an occasion. The staff, too, does its part. Everyone is notably kind, genuinely eager to please, and patient in the way you want when you’re giving a place a fair shot.

But the meal is where the illusion collapses. For all the ambition, there’s little evidence of the fundamentals that make “fusion” anything more than a mood board. Product feels secondary, technique is shaky, and the cooking lacks the basic sense of flavor, temperature, and balance that turns ideas into food. Dishes arrive with a lot of intention and not much understanding, as if the goal were to impress before it was to feed.

The wine program compounds the problem: a poor selection, poorly presented, in glassware of dubious quality—an unforgivable detail when the rest of the room is trying so hard to look refined.

Ziryab is pretty, and everyone is nice. But as a culinary experience, it’s disastrously off-target.

Clean: 8/10
Comfort: 7/10

Food: 5/10

Wine: 5/10

Service: 8/10

The Experience: 5/10

Price: 55€/pax