9th April 2011
Having just arrived back from a brilliant trip to Spain, I am now ready to share our many experiences of meals out. We initially planned to do the Spanish Triangle, that is Malaga, Granada and Seville but with recommendations and a curiosity to see other areas, we detoured slightly. I plan to show you a little food sample of each city/town visited.
We met up with some friends in Malaga who we hadn’t seen for 8 years, so as the weather was so hot, it was very much walking (slowly), drinking and Tapas. We visited a famous restaurant called Bodega Bar El Pimpi, which had pictures of all its famous guests on the walls, such as Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffiths. It had a really good atmosphere and was quite busy with the locals. Of course, I was tickled by the name and had to have a picture of Mr A. in the doorway below the name. Childish I know!
I tried a glass of Tinto de Verano the Spanish drink, which translated means red wine of the summer. It is 1-part red wine, 1-part gaseosa. Gaseosa is a mild flavored low sugar carbonated lemonade. I really liked it. I found it so refreshing and yes it was summery! I plan to replicate this at home with Sprite. This is worth a visit even if it is just for a drink, just to soak up the atmosphere and see a traditional Spanish winery.
For the Tinto de Verano and the quaint look of the place.
In the evening Mr A. and I went to find a traditional Spanish restaurant. When we eventually found one, it only had a table for 2 left outside despite it being empty inside at 9.30pm. La Cosmopolita was down a side street and had a good feel to it. The menu was vast and in Spanish, so we decided to ask the waitress what the day’s specials were. We then decided to have Tapas selection of all the specials (it was only 5). Tapas are very much fit for purpose; eating at 10.00 at night you couldn’t possibly eat a huge meal. However, if you order all the specials it kinda defeats the object. Hence, we needed to work on the Spanish culture.
All in all, we agreed it was a gorgeous meal accompanied by a lovely rich red Spanish wine, but agreed it was too much for 10.00pm.
La Cosmopolita, Malaguena, Spain.
In the evening Mr A. and I went to find a traditional Spanish restaurant. When we eventually found one, it only had a table for 2 left outside despite it being empty inside at 9.30pm. La Cosmopolita was down a side street and had a good feel to it. The menu was vast and in Spanish, so we decided to ask the waitress what the day’s specials were. We then decided to have Tapas selection of all the specials (it was only 5). Tapas are very much fit for purpose; eating at 10.00 at night you couldn’t possibly eat a huge meal. However, if you order all the specials it kinda defeats the object. Hence, we needed to work on the Spanish culture.
As you know by now, we are very much New World wine drinkers particularly Argentinian Malbec. So as you can imagine, we have come to a traditional Spanish restaurant, all we are going to get is Spanish wines. Luckily, our knowledgeable waitress recommended Svmma Varietalis 2004 after we described the type of wine we liked. And to be honest, she did well; it was not bad at all!
The food started to arrive and we had tomatoes and anchovies in oil, which was quite light, octopus and potato with mustard sauce, which was very rich but very tasty and mini Spanish burgers, which were mini burgers, there’s not much more you can say about burgers.
When we had finished, the waitress brought ham and cheese rolls which were like the Gourmet ham and cheese rolls we buy at Christmas from M&S and cod in a light batter drizzled with honey. We loved both these Tapas in particular.
La Cosmopolita, Malaguena, Spain.
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