Asian Tapas: over 60 recipes for tempting Asian small plates and bites

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Note that you can’t make bookings at the Dean Street branch of Barrafina, but you can at their four other branches in Adelaide Street, Drury Lane, Coal Drops Yard and Borough Yards. For dessert, don’t miss the churros which are dripping with an oozing chocolate sauce. Sounds pretty good to us! They’ve also got a great summer terrace. Available everyday throughout the year, excluding Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day As you’d expect from a Mediterranean restaurant, there’s plenty on the menu for seafood lovers, including citrus cured trout with Sicilian blood orange and grilled octopus with peperonata and sobrasada aioli.

The star of the show though at Bar Gansa really is the food, with classic small plates including serrano ham croquettes, padron peppers and Galcian octopus with potatoes among many other tasty things. Veggie options include patatas bravas, aubergine slices with honey and pan-fried courgettes with red peppers, onions and a fried egg.As you enter LOBOS , a pegboard sign greets you with the words, ‘MEAT & TAPAS: the wolf is always evil if you only listen to Red Riding Hood’. Yep – it’s probably fair to say that this spot doesn’t cater for veggies.

A strong condenser for the best tapas in London here. Brindisa has five tapas bars in the city serving up a range of authentic Spanish food to hungry Londoners. At Brindisa Battersea you can even eat breakfast like the Spaniards with ‘El Desayuno’ – after all, it is the most important meal of the day! Plus you can use your favorite sauce that you have on hand and doesn’t require any unusual crazy ingredients. This is supposed to be easy, right?!?! Located just around the corner from Leicester Square and Covent Garden, this lively spot is all about great food and a familial atmosphere. Winner of Best Brunch in Central London in the TimeOut Love London Awards! Feast on an unlimited supply of dishes from a lengthy menu (see below), alongside free-flowing house bubbles, house white or red wine, or beer. Quite simply one of my favourite restaurants” – high praise there from Fred Sirieix of First Dates fame. Well, who can blame him – it’s easy to see why. The food at El Pirata is pretty phenomenal and has been voted the ‘best Spanish tapas restaurant in London’ by the SME Awards for the past two years’ running.The idea behind it was born out of a love of excellent meat cuts, good wine, great hospitality, Spain and London, and the four restaurateurs really do all of the above brilliantly well. They’ve also got a branch in Soho if you’d prefer to stay in central.