[Leica] Nathan's PAD 13/7/2017: vegan tapeo

[Nathan Wajsman]

A tapeo is an important cultural institution in Spain. As you might guess, it is a tapas crawl, going from bar to bar to try the tapas. Yesterday, seven bars in the centre of Alicante put up a vegan tapeo. Each bar, whether veggie or not, committed to having at least two vegan tapas on the menu. Needless to say, Monica was keen on trying it, so I took the afternoon off and we went out to enjoy the vegan tapas.

The first place, called Farmers, had a vegan sandwich with avocado, beets, lettuce and lots of other good things. A nice place to start:
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The we moved on to El Baserri del Pirata, a Basque bar which turned out to be totally awesome, both in terms of the food and the people. It is not vegetarian, and the fish and meat dishes looked really good, but they also have a delicious tempura-style aubergine:
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And a nice guy keeping the bar and a good selection of stuff:
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We went to four of the seven places. The last one was La Cucaracha, where we had another aubergine dish. Monica is taking a picture to upload:
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Something like this:
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Most people outside Spain think that tapas are just olives, bread, Manchego cheese and pieces of Iberian ham. In reality, a tapa is a small dish of food and can be quite elaborate.

Cheers,
Nathan


Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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