Spanish restaurants in London
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Barrafina
They may not be as reasonably priced as you'd get in Spain, but the quality of the tapas served here is excellent.
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El Parador
This laid-back Spanish place has a generous selection of tapas - try the empanadillas de espinacas y queso (spinach and cheese dish) - from all over Spain. There's a walled garden for when the sun's out and you're feeling moderately Mediterranean; the reasonably priced rioja (from around £17) should help.
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Bar Gansa
Bar Gansa is a focal point of the Camden scene, has a late licence and is howlingly popular. The menus – mostly tapas (averaging £3) – are good value. Bigger specialities include traditional favourites such as Paella Valenciana. There’s live flamenco on Monday evening.
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Fernandez & Wells
A wonderful Soho mini-chain, this is one of the three branches of Fernandez & Wells, each located within 200m of each other in small, friendly and elegant spaces. This branch offers simple lunches and dinners of Spanish jamon (ham) and cured meats and cheese platters accompanied by quality wine. Grilled chorizo sandwiches are perfect for quick lunchtime bites and there are ample breakfasts, too (until 11am). The place is usually busy, with a relaxed atmosphere and outside seating. The other two branches are the Café and the Espresso Bar – both do sandwiches and incredibly good coffee.
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Moro
The best-known restaurant in Clerkenwell and still a frequent award winner a decade after it launched, Moro serves ‘Moorish’ cuisine, a fusion of Spanish, Portuguese and North African flavours. The restaurant doesn’t look like anything special, though it’s always full and buzzing, but the food is generally fabulous with such dishes on its constantly evolving menu as wood-roasted mackerel with sweet onion-and-oloroso sauce, and charcoal-grilled lamb with deep-fried aubergine. Reservations are essential.
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Mesón Los Barriles
Avoid the chain-gang restaurants that now dominate the newly ‘regenerated’ (read sterile and corporate-friendly) Spitalfields market and stick to the old school with this long-established family restaurant. While the fresh fish here is great, the real draw is the excellent selection of tapas (£3.50 to £11.95). Sawdust on the floor and air-dried hams overhead add to the rustic market feel of the place.
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Fino
Critically acclaimed (and it’s easy to see why), Fino represents an example of good Spanish cuisine in a London all too dominated by dreary and uninventive tapas bars. Set in a glamorous basement, Fino is a tapas restaurant with a difference. Try the Jerusalem artichoke cooked with mint, the prawn tortilla with wild garlic or the foie gras with chilli jam for a feast of innovative and delightful Spanish cooking.
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Don Fernando’s
The Izquierdo family have been serving superb cuisine from their native Andalucía for nigh on 20 years now, and their enthusiasm shows no signs of waning. With an exhaustive list of tapas (£5 to £8), Spanish beers, wines and culinary specialities, including (unusually) some vegetarian options along with cheerful service, this makes a great place for a good lunch or a slow supper.
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Eyre Brothers
This sublime, elegant Shoreditch restaurant is well worth travelling to and making reservations for. Its cuisine is Iberian with a touch of African flair, courtesy of the eponymous brothers’ upbringing in Mozambique, and it’s every bit as exciting as it sounds. On a recent visit the Bacalhau (salt cod) was simply superb, while the rare acorn-fed Ibérico pork was similarly top notch.
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Laxeiro
This homely place dead in the centre of Columbia Rd, the site of London’s famous Sunday flower market, serves generous-sized tapas (it prefers to call them raciones ). Tapas change every two weeks but the cochinillo (tender suckling pig) is a constant. The handful of more ambitious dishes includes paella to be shared.
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Tendido Cero
This stylish (think clean lines in black and purple) place, limbo’d somewhere between South Kensington and Earl’s Court, serves traditional tapas in just about the trendiest Spanish restaurant you’ve seen outside the Iberian Peninsula. It’s popular and there are two sittings, so book ahead at all times.
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Camino
This new venture in the Regent Quarter development in the heart of King’s Cross is a much needed boost to the area’s regeneration, serving up from a huge menu of tapas, main dishes, brunch and cocktails to anyone who can find the place. It can feel rather large and impersonal, but the food is great and good value.
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Mesón Don Felipe
Veritable Waterloo institution serves standard-issue tapas like patatas bravas (potatoes in tomato sauce) and albondigas (meatballs) around a central bar to punters turned away fromt the Anchor & Hope.
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Tapas Brindisa
Brindisa attracts a well-heeled, foodie crowd who know good tapas when they taste it. No bookings are accepted, so come early if you want to bag an outside table on market days.
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Churreria Española
This extremely popular cafe with the open frontage serves a variety of cheap dishes, from English breakfasts to a range of Spanish tapas (£2.25 to £4.50).
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