Last Friday, I went to Tasca Restaurant with my mom. She wanted to try something new. But since there was a rain forecast, she was not wanting to walk. I had to persuade her to walk with me and coax her. After she came to the restaurant (after 25 minutes), we arrive around 6:10pm (avoiding the dinner rush crowd).
My mom digs into the garbonzo beans, garlic and sweet red pepper spread which promptly causes her to eat TWO not one baskets of bread due to its utter deliciousness! She is in LOVE! The sangria is good but she cannot handle her liquor. So only two or three sips suffice.
I order some tapas--one with grilled veggies, one with mushrooms, lamb braised in sangria, chorizo and bread, and crab cakes with the main entree being the paella! The sopa del dia were gazpacho and tomato eggplant. Both are great and a nice contrast of warm and cool. I loved the cool cucumber in the gazpacho. The warm tomato eggplant was not overly spiced and flavorful. The favorite tapas were the special crab cakes for only $6.50 and my mom was impressed. As for the paella, she was not overly impressed. (The main reason to want to eat at a Spanish tapas place). She tasted the lobster broth, liked the squid and shrimp but thought the dish needed more.
Overall rating of 8.0 of 10 forks. The atmosphere is always top notch. If you head there on a thursday night, you will be entertained by a spanish guitarist. The service was good but you do have to make requests and get the servers attention sometimes so not always consistent.
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