Tapas Bar

Tapas Bar
Location: Palo Alto
Price: $$- $$$

So the other night, Reid strongly encouraged us to go to Tapas, a new restaurant in Palo Alto (replaced Pasta Pomerdero) next to Classico Gelato. He had gone a while back with relatives and must've quite liked it because everytime we wondered where to eat, he would throw it out there....and get thwarted, until this time when he had the final decisionmaking say. Anyhoo, my final opinion on the place is that it was pretty yummy, but I wouldn't go there more than...once every 4 months or so.

That's not a bad review. Some of the food we got was really good--the two best dishes they have are their bruschettas and their duck tacos. The duck tacos were so good we got two of them. But other than that, the other dishes weren't outstanding and there weren't many other selections. Also for a tapas place, they only had red sangria, not white, and from the way they mixed their drinks based on a martini I got, it's a little overly potent.

The ambience is typical of the higher end Palo Alto cafes, and the location is great when you want to do the triumvurate dinner, gelato, and an art house movie across the street. It's basically a typical Palo Alto restaurant where everything is decent-good but nothing will make it a favorite restaurant to frequently go back to. It's on the pricey side, but if you stick to 4 dishes or so, it's affordable for 2 ppl for a nice night out. I'd go back for more duck tapas and bruschettas, but it's one of those things you can only crave every so often.