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Sampling Barajas20 Tapas Bar: between Gastro and Traditional
My friend Mickey and I have a lot more in common than our birthday. We most often come together when food and wine are involved. I’ve tried to feign foodie forever, but the truth is that I don’t know...
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Sampling Spanish Food: Five Must-Try Tapas
As Seville competes for the World Capital of Tapas, a nod which would give the city another UNESCO World Heritage mention, restaurants and tapas bars around the city are adapting to an eating culture...
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Tapa Thursdays: Huesos de Santos
As a self-confessed Halloweenie, I love things spooky, from cemeteries to haunted houses. Lucky for me, Spain celebrates a national holiday, Día de Todos los Santos, or All Saint’s Day, so I can...
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Tapa Thursdays: The Gambas Blancas of Huelva
When people ask me where my favorite spot in Seville is, I can give an answer quicker than I can name the president of the Spanish parliament: La Grande. You could say that I fell in love with Spain,...
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Tapa Thursdays: Mantecados de Estepa and the Despensa de Palacio
“¡Pero si los mantecados no engordan! Put a few more in your purse already!” Javi stole a glance at the four estepeñas attending to the Sunday morning crowd as he loaded a few barquillos and polvorones...
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Tapas Thursdays: Ensaladilla Rusa
My first meal in Spain was less than memorable: Aurora muttered something as she schlepped a large bowl of something in front of us. “Cat, quick! tell her I’m allergic to seafood! I think that’s tuna...
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Tapa Thursdays: Where’s Cat?
Studying abroad in Valladolid changed many things about me, from the way I spoke Spanish to the direction my life way to take. It also made me appreciated wine. Sitting just south of the Ribera del...
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Tapa Thursdays: Eating (and drinking) La Rioja
When it came to the last region of Spain left to visit, I didn’t have to do much planning: I was in La Rioja, Spain’s wine country, and I was going to drink as much vinate as possible. But, as any...
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Tapa Thursdays: Champiñones
If I were to list the three foods I most despised, it would be easy: canned tuna, eggs and mushrooms. Yes, I picked three of the most commonly used ingredients in Spanish cuisine, and the only big...
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Tapa Thursdays: Hamburguesas
“You not liking a hamburger would tell me you’re more Spanish than American,” Samu says as he served us a hamburger, his style, at Taberna la Tata. The mini ox burger has carmelized onions and beets,...
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Eating Coruña: The City’s Best Restaurants
Galician food makes my heart flutter – the piping hot pimientos del padrón, raxo smothered in roquefort sauce, fresh-caught shellfish displayed in every window of every bar on every street. There are...
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Tapa Thursdays: Heladería Llinares and its Wacky Ice Cream Flavors
Outside of Italy, I’d never seen a group of camera-clad tourists so fascinated by a street side ice cream display. In a city known for its rice dishes, avant-garde architecture and brash fireworks...
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Tapa Thursdays: My Most Memorable Spanish Meal
I squinted, trying to make out the words on the menu as the sunlight reflected off the bay near Mogán, a small port on the southern end of Gran Canaria island. Enrique gave me a quick tsk and a shake...
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Tapa Thursdays: Castañas
cred where cred’s due I never knew that ‘chestnuts roasting on an open fire’ was actually a thing until moving to Seville. When the weather turns crisp (which finally happened last week), peddlers...
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Tapas Thursday: Sampling La Brunilda
I have visited so many places whose names ring famous, and usually have felt like something was missing. When it comes to food, I’m beginning to have high expectations. In Seville, a city that’s home...
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Tapa Thursdays: The Corte Inglés Gourmet Experience
One of my favorite things about eating out in Spain is sharing dishes with friends. One of my least favorite is having to decide on what to eat when everyone has different gustos. The Corte Inglés...
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Tapa Thursdays: Nazca
We stumbled on Nazca one afternoon when our friend Scott was visiting from Madrid. I’d heard talk of the place – a Japanese and Peruvian fusion restaurant – for ages, and we quite literally stumbled...
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Tapa Thursdays: The Bar that Never Fails to Impress, La Azotea
I had snagged Lindsay for a rare night out. She strolled into the locale she’d suggested, bright as always and pronounced something to the effect of, “This is the best place I’ve tried lately, and this...
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Tapa Thursdays: Yakitoro, a Chicote-run Dining Concept in Madrid
Faced with a lunchtime dilemma in Madrid, I was thrilled to get a message at the very moment my stomach rumbled from my friend Lauren, a self- and media-professed foodie and an insider in the Spanish...
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Tapa Thursdays: Taberna Panduro
Wee, another posts about a gastrobar! I mean, I love a mushroom risotto and fig croquetas like the next guiri, but even with new restaurants opening all the time offering the same sorts of dishes, I...
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