It's a gorgeous venue with high ceilings, but the noise level can get quite high.

Andalusian gazpacho (HK$98/regular portion) was cold and refreshing, and smelled of extra virgin olive oil. Chargrilled Spanish red prawns with parsley pesto (HK$390/regular portion; we were told there would be five, but were served only four) had sweet, soft meat and heads that were full of rich juice. The selection of Iberian pork — shoulder, chorizo and morcilla (HK$245/regular portion) was meaty and satisfying, but would have been better hot. We liked the flavour of the seafood paella (HK$240/regular), but we had the same complaint — the waitress made a point of warning us that the pan was hot, and she put it on a trivet, but it was barely warm. Catalan cream foam with toffee ice cream and pineapple (HK$80) was nice, light and frothy.

many of the dishes can be ordered as regular or large portions.

servers, if you can't memorise an order for three people, write it down. Ours didn't, and forgot several items and got our main course wrong, which meant a long wait between dishes. Beef heart tomato (HK$98/regular) wasn't sweet, and they left in part of the hard core. Rum baba (HK$90) was coarse in texture, and wasn't evenly soaked with rum.

Isono is a sister restaurant to Vasco, one floor up.