Excellent value. Specialities include the ‘tablas’ which are thick cut slices of country bread that is toasted, slathered with salmorejo (a very thick gaspacho-type sauce) and then topped with chunks or slices of jamón serrano. Other favourites are the various solomillo (grilled pork tenderloin) tapas that are offered with a variety of sauces – ‘al whisky’, roquefort, ‘a la castellana’. There is also a nice chicken breast tapa served with a creamy almond sauce.

You have to get there early to get a table on the terrace, say, just after 8pm. Otherwise you give them your name and they write it on the small blackboard outside and call you from the bar, if you’ve gone there to have a drink and wait.

I personally prefer eating at the bar myself, if it’s just the two of us, because then I can chat with the waiters and whatever. It kind of adds to the fun of it all. And I can say stupid stuff like – hey, you call that a glass of wine? – at which point they fill it up properly.

As the tapas end up being the size of media-raciones in other places, it is certainly very good value and also it’s just very good food.

Plaza Cristo de Burgos, 19
Tel. 954 501 137
€ € €

photos

the bar earlier in the evening

where they make the ‘tablas’

una tabla – with salmorejo and jamón serrano

grilled pork tenderloin
on the left in a port sauce, on the right with a roquefort sauce

tabla speciality of the house with quail eggs

the bar later on …

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