Comments on: Tapas for paupers – Tortilla de patatas

By: Recipe no 5: Tortilla de patatas

Recipe no 5: Tortilla de patatas — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:17:10 +0000

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By: Lau

Lau — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:36 +0000

I think the time thing is a very good point, here in Aus as well. Tapas generally works in bars here as people graze intermittently, but in restaurants people are used to ordering everything at the beginning and then stuffing themselves…

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:31:11 +0000

I think the reason Tapas doesn’t translate well, into the UK at least is their concept of time and the weather. Brits are obsessed with eating their dinner at about 6pm whereas Spanish pepole don’t finish work until 9pm. They have a siesta during the day and stay up later because of the heat. You can’t sleep at 10pm it’s too hot in the summer. So you stay out late chatting in the street. Its like the whole: starter, main course, dessert thing we have going on if we go out for dinner. The Spanish just graze, which is annoying by the way if you are trying to serve their table, you never know when to clear!!

By: Lau

Lau — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:44:17 +0000

I am 100% with you, Sydney tapas is ridiculous. maybe all us Sydnay food bloggers could band together and open up a ‘real’ tapas bar?

I didn’t spend much time up North but I did love the custom in Granada of a free tapa with every drink. They got progressively tastier the more drinks you bought and so that would encourage you to stay at one bar for longer. They are fiercely proud of this custom as they say it shows that they are the more hospitable part of Spain.

By: john@heneedsfood

john@heneedsfood — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:13:45 +0000

It seems everwhere you turn in this city now has ‘tapas’. Overpriced little mouthfuls of (sometimes) Spanish bar food to nibble while sipping on $20 cocktails. I’ve been to Spain a few times and absolutely adore the food/bar culture there. The tapas there are sensational, washed down with a cold beer or local vino. In the Basque country, up in the north, it’s more about the pincho (or pintxo) where the morsel of food is on a skewer or toothpick (hence the name) or simply served on slices of baguette. Absolute heaven!
When’s my next trip to Spain?