Tapas is a plate of food that is served with your drink – anything from a plate of olives, to a roll with ham and cheese, or a delicious tomato, feta and basil mix.
Here in Granada and some other cities in the south of Spain, tapas is free, but in Madrid you pay extra.
Each restaurant or bar has their own special varieties, and these are served in a certain order and change from day to day. With your first drink, you may receive a plate with slices of ham and hot chips. With the next drink, it could be a plate of small bread rolls filled with ham and cheese, and potato chips.
One restaurant I went to had a plate of casseroled pork as the first plate, and tomato basil and feta for the second plate.
There are enough servings of tapas for each person who orders a drink.
In the south, the tapas are reasonably simple and unadorned. In other cities in the north, the tapas are extremely ornate and are comprised of several different methods of cooking. These latter examples are those that are priced separately from the drinks.
The other day I had a plate of tapas that was a fritter on a slice of corbata bread. It was delicious. Others are a simple dish of chicken or pork pieces served with pieces of bread to soak up the juices.
Hola Senora Lee, we all enjoyed reading your Malaga and tapas blogs in class today. We discussed which tapas we would choose if we were in Spain.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear from you. Actually you don't get to choose your tapas - they have set dishes. I guess you could pick your favourite one and keep going back, but they do change.
ReplyDeleteSounds like my kind of country lol. Love snacking and grazing on interesting foods. Malaga sounded wonderful. I hope you are taking a trillion photos :):):)
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