Tapas Restaurant?

Question

I'm going to a tapas restaurant for my 21st birthday and was wondering what I should order.

Does anyone have some tapas they reccommend?

Thanks :)

The restaurant is in down town San Diego, CA

Answer 1

As wide a variety of dishes as you can for your group to share. That is the great enjoyment of Tapas style dining. You are brought a small stack of little dishes to eat from and the entrees are served out from a larger plate or platter family style. Menus vary seasonally, but some of the staples are Hummus, Pia(Saffron Rice dish), and a roasted potato dish I can't recall the name of right now. It is a great time to be daring and try something that you normally wouldn't have. You will be surprised at how tasty some things are that, under other circumstances, you wouldn't try.

Answer 2

I lived in Spain for 4 years where tapas come from. They are a traditional Spanish entree, in which small amounts of foods are served on small dishes, or very small cups. I lived on the coast of Spain, so many of the tapas were traditional seafoods, like calameres or shrimp, usually mixed with olives, tomatoes and green peppers in an oil and vinegar base. Some of them included the traditional Spanish ham, which in most Spanish restaurants hang from a cord from the ceiling around the bar area. The Spanish ham tends to be very lean and dry. This is chopped up and mixed with vegetables in a kind of ham salad. It is traditional in Spain to go "tapa hopping." This means, early in the evening from about 7 PM - 9 PM, you go from one restaurant to the next, maybe 5 - 6 different restaurants, you order a glass of very dry white sherry and pick two or three tapas from the bar. You drink the sherry and try out some of the tapas that you might like. YOu can see all the tapas in different trays at the bar and then pick the ones you want to try. 9 PM is the traditional time to eat a dinner in Spain, and so by the time you have gotten around to a few bars or restaurants and eaten some tapas and had several glasses of sherry (or any other alcoholic beverage, but traditionally a very dry sherry called "fino") and maybe a dozen or so tapas, you are well lubricated and hungry but not overly hungry - so the Spaniards tend not to eat excessive amounts of food at dinner, that being the reason - they are already half full! Along with the tapas in Spain, are served a very thin french-bread like roll that is cut into small pieces. You eat the freshly baked hard crusted bread pieces with the tapas in order to absorb some of the vinegar mixed into the tapas and assists you in eating without getting overwhelmed by the vinegars. This is a traditional thing to do all over Spain, but I love the Spanish coast where I lived because the tapas there are made with seafoods. Tapas always include the "local area" variety of food in Spain. I hope this explains to you what tapas are and how they are served and where the tradition came from. Adios!

Answer 3

where is this restaraunt?----
try a little of everything if you can