A guide to Spain's famous snack culture

Spain without tapas? Simply inconceivable! These little appetizers are found in seemingly endless varieties across Spain. But what do you need to know about Spanish tapas? Let’s find out.

CREDITS
Report: Diana Piñeros
Camera: Jochen Bartelt
Edit: Nora Rehn

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:23 Tapa 1: Gambas al ajillo
00:58 Tapas bars
01:28 Origins of tapas
01:47 Tapa 2: Regalito de torito
03:06 What to drink
03:37 Tapa 3: Huevos Rotos
04:42 Outro

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[DWFood]

Correction: For the first tapa, Gambas al ajillo, you need parsley and not coriander. Sorry for the mistake and thanks to everyone for pointing it out in the comments 🙏

[gcvrsa]

Spanish cuisine is one of my favorites. It's so deceptively simple, and so delicious. And Spanish wine! Delicioso!

[Pei_Bo]

i love spain, best cuisine in the world!! greetings from serbia!! saludos

[ceemartin]

In Spain if you go to a bar and ask for a beer or other alcoholic drink, they will serve a 'tapa' with it and they give you what they want or have on hand, could be anything from chips, some olives or a piece of bread with chorizo/ham or whatever. That is free. If you want a particular 'tapa' you have to order it and pay for it.

BTW a 'tapa' would never be in such large portions as seen in the video as tapas are served in small plates. Normally, if you want to eat those bigger portions you have to ask for 'una ración' (a portion), which will come in a normal sized or large plate. For example, if you ask for 'una ración de croquetas'' they would bring to the table a big plate full of croquets. A tapa would just be 2 or 3 croquets. If there's two people or more the best thing is to ask for 'una ración' of 3 or 4 dishes. It's great for bar hopping too as certain bars have their own specialties.

Huevos estrellados, the 'crashed eggs' are usually eaten for brunch or as part of a meal, and I wouldn't call the dish a 'tapa'.

[mrdude]

I love Tapas. You get a little bit of everything while you heavily drink. I don’t do tapas in America because the price of a plate cost half as much as an entree. In Spain when my buddy and I go tapa bar hopping, it was affordable. We spent more on the drinks than food even though our table is always full of food.

[ondrejtkadlec]

I loved my stay in Valencia. I would go to a pub, get a beer for 1.5 EUR and they would give you snack with it. Brilliant!

[jdg]

Cada vez que voy a España siempre regreso con unos kilitos de más de lo bien que se come.

[duskyme]

I never knew about tapas until I tasted it in Mallorca, they are just delicious, dates wrapped in ham and some sweet N salty pork with onions my favourite

[elguanche]

I was just in that place yesterday. The regalitos were fantastic!

[radicalcenter]

One of the best foods in the planet, great tradition.

[MCoelloF]

Nowadays everything is considered tapas. Tapas are very small portions of food given for free in most places with the drinks (in some regions you must pay for them). Next is "pincho", which is a bigger portion of food, with several ingredients and usualy it comes on top of a toast of fresh bread (exept when it´s a pincho de toritilla which means 1/4 of a whole tortilla) It´s never free. . Next in size would be ración, usualy with just 1 or 2 ingredients and it´s a plate full of: chorizo, cheese, boquerones, pulpo, or whatever other infrediente. Never for free either (though there are some places that giveaway raciones if you buy 10 beers for intance.) So for instance, if you have 1 shrimp and a pc of bread, it´s a tapa. If it´s a whole dish of shrimps, it´s a ración. And if those shrimps, are on a fresh toast, with lettuce, mayonesa, tomatoe, garlic bla bla bla, it would be a pincho
FYI

[charlesyang]

I love Spanish language, sounds elegant

[R.-xz]

Coriander??? It's parsley (perejil)

[anaibarangan]

See the tortillas under the glass at the bar? Whole before sliced into tapa portions. Tapas are a great lunch or dinner, because get to choose a variety of mini portions. There were good ones in London. Authentic Spain's food restaurants.

[kellygrant]

They taste better when they're out of focus, ya know.

[Robdc]

What's everyone's favourite tapas dish? For me it's Raxo, a simple dish of panfied pork loin, garlic, bell peppers and onions, served with potatoes.

[maily]

Tapas in La Rambla Barcelona packed with customers. Voila delicious 😋.

[abchappell]

I absolutely love tapas 😊
After watching this video, , I want some now :)

[sethsoderman]

I like these dishes cuz it's all simple gradients to cook with and I heard in Spain's pretty cool to go to and there's a giant metal scene over there are here too

[AndresLeonRangel]

maravilloso. Gracias.
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