Advantages: Really tasty, well-presented grub Disadvantages: Can easily spend more than you planned
Although Taverna Basca Irati has a formal sit-down restaurant, I can’t comment on the menu. Instead we stood at the bar and did what the local do – we chose from the mouth watering selection of pintxos. What are pintxos? Quite simply they are the northern Spanish equivalent of tapas, small dishes of tasty morsels to accompany drinks. They are really a Basque thing from that area in the Spanish Pyrenees but they are widely eaten in Catalonia too. ... ...was a bit doubtful about Taverna Basca Irati at first because it all looked a bit new and I thought it might have been a chain. We were walking past while strolling the back streets just off the Ramblas and the sight of these titbits piled up on plates and displayed on an eye level counter made up stop for a better look. The same items fill each plate but there were over twenty different plates on the counter. The vivid colours of the salmon, the ...
fizzytom 13.06.2009
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