This Spanish meatballs recipe for albondigas makes juicy pork and beef meatballs in a rich tomato sauce spiced with smoked paprika and a touch of chilli. Albondigas is a tapa, a small snack plate available at tapas bars in Spain, where a tapas bar crawl – a bar-hop to sample these delicious snacks – is … Read more
Barcelona is a city that gets written about so much that there is little that has escaped the guidebook author or magazine writer who drops in for a taste of the ‘real’ Barcelona – particularly when it comes to tapas in Barcelona. Whether it’s tapas in Barcelona, or any restaurant associated with the legendary Ferran Adrià and … Read more
Eating out in Jerez is all about grazing on Spanish tapas and grazing on Spanish tapas is what you should do in Southern Spain’s food destination of Jerez de la Frontera. Even when the locals sit down to eat in a restaurant, in contrast to snacking while standing up at the bar, which seems more … Read more
Madrid wasn’t on the Grantourismo itinerary. We were meant to travel over land and sea from Essaouira via Tangier to Jerez, and had planned to drive from Essaouira back to Marrakech, take the overnight train from Marrakech to Tangier, a ferry to Algeciras, and a bus to Jerez… Our plans, however, were foiled by work … Read more