First off, if you have a tapas restaurant, make sure the staff is educated about Spanish wines. There's a manzanilla sherry on the bottle list, so the waiter should know what it is. (Don't offer me the cream sherry instead.)
At any rate, they didn't seen to have any, so I asked for an albariño. Again, no idea what I'm talking about. So we look together in the wine fridge and eventually find it. And it's good.
I ordered boquerones, papas (patatas) bravas, gambas pil pil, and tortilla. Everything is good, not great. So why, you may ask, am I giving four stars? Well, as I'm eating the gambas (which would benefit from some chili flakes, btw), I think "I need some bread to soak up the oil and fried garlic here." So I ask for some bread, and I wait. Just as I wonder why the bread is taking so long, the waiter brings out this small, flat-ish loaf of streaming hot bread.
OMFG! Perfect crunch to the crust, delicious softness inside, and so good with the oil from the prawns. It's so good, they should just include it with the gambas. It's so good, I nearly gave them 5 stars. Rapture. No, really, it was that good. When I come back, I may try other dishes, but I _know_ I'll get gambas and bread again. read more