For additional perspective from this newspaper, the original Voice/Weekly review of Cascal, by Robert Rich in Feb. 2004 from multiple visits, had more mixed comments, dishes sometimes clashing with the very traditions they alluded to: "our server...mentioned that the seafood paella used pasta instead of arborio rice... Alas, that first meal left us with mixed impressions. We remembered tapas as humble and flavorful, cheap and plentiful, in rooms filled with rowdy banter and carafes of Rioja wine. We viewed Cascal's petite portions of well-coifed nibbles with suspicion.In particular, the shrimp ceviche ($7) disappointed with flavors more reminiscent of pico de gallo salsa, a small goblet with fragments of shrimp fleshed out with plentiful red peppers, cucumber and onions..."

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