Tapas
[TAH-pahs]
Popular throughout Spain in bars and restaurants, tapas are appetizers that usually accompany sherry or other aperitifs or cocktails. They can also form an entire meal and can range from simple items such as olives or cubes of ham and cheese to more elaborate preparations like cold omelets, snails in a spicy sauce, stuffed peppers and miniature sandwiches.

Most tapas served now is more involved, think mini servings almost. There are both hot & cold tapas, make sure to try both.

There are some menus for tapas listed on all the websites below to give you an idea of what to expect.

Tapas is lots of fun as you get to try a great variety of dishes, deciding as a group what to get next, and served with the sangria is ooooooohhhhhh so good.

A few tapas restaurants in Chicago I’ve been to are:

Emilio’s Tapas - has various locations, I have only dined at the Ohio street location and thought is was very good, as was the sangria. http://www.emiliostapas.com/

Café Ba-Ba-Reeba 2024 N. Halsted Street - http://www.leye.com/restaurants/rest_home.jsp?id=5


Café-Ba-Ba-Reeba was good, Emilio’s was very good, and my favorite would be Café Iberico at 739 N. LaSalle. http://www.cafe-iberico.com/

indo79 reviewed Café Iberico: http://www.flyertalk.com/dining/ftdi...ML/000100.html

Anyone been to others in Chicago?