La Tasca Spanish Tapas Restaurant

La Tasca Spanish Tapas Restaurant
6/12 Cuppin Street
Chester
CH1 2BN
01244 400887
01244 400878

http://www.latasca.co.uk/

4th Aug 2001

Not a bad day today, Marg and I managed to get most of the gardening chores done and it looked like there was still some good weather left for the evening, so we decided on a jaunt to Chester - perhaps a walk alongthe river and a meal?

By the time we got there, it was chucking it dowm, so I took the oppportunity of "kerb crawling" round the town to get my bearings. We parked up for a few minutes alongside the river, where the tour boats moor, and waited a few minutes until the weather cleared. It turned out quite a pleasant evening, but by then we had gone off the idea of a full-blown restaurant meal.

Luckily, we had "crawled" past a few small restaurants, and were parked fairly near to them, so we walked along and perused the menus. Next time, we'll go for a full meal, but this time, La Tasca fitted the bill nicely - we both saw from the menu that we could be satisfied with a couple of tapas, we'd both been to a "La Tasca" before (see our main review ), and so we popped in.

At just after seven pm, the place was buzzing, but there was still room for us. A few minutes later and we would have had to have waited some forty minutes for a table!

Families, couples and parties formed a pleasant mix, and the atmosphere was lively and fairly cosmopolitan.

I selected Patatas Pobre and Cordero Salsa, Marg went for Patatas Bravas and Brochetta Pollo.

A San Miguel for me and a Pernod for Marg lubricated us until my dish of mixed olives, and a basket of bread arrived.

Nice olives, pity about the quality of the olive oil they were presented in - serving these in a better flavoured oil would have made a difference.

Marg preferred my Patatas Pobre to her Bravas, and so we swapped. I found both acceptable, but thought the Bravas sauce was a little too thinly flavoured, with paprika too much to the fore.

Marg enjoyed her skewer of Chicken, served on a salad bed with a dollop of garlic mayonnaise, but I found my Lamb stew had just a few too many peppercorns in the sauce for my liking.

Another San Miguel while we finished off the tapas - they weren't bad really!

Finish with a couple of coffees and the bill came to just over £22.

We were both satisfied with the experience, and would go again soon if it weren't for all the other restaurants we're duty bound to try in the future!!!

Sandro Melkuhn