Theyre At It Again: Unlimited Tapas for $10

In case you didnt know, there's a mall near my house within walking distance, and there's one particular restaurant that keeps going under every six months or so. I believe the owners havent changed since the theme is always the same. Anyway now they've reopened and are now offering eat all you can tapas for $10. Unlimited sangria and gin tonic is an extra $10.

The tapas they have includes fried potato croquettes, meatballs, quail egg and anchovy pinxos, egg and potato omelet. For an extra $5 they include paella, steamed mussels, Iberico chicken.

What do you guys think? Should I go for it? I'll probably be stuffed and drunk afterwards.

Damn, that looks disgustingly good. Canned or fresh anchovies?

The question is, how can you not go for it?

OldFatGuy said:

Damn, that looks disgustingly good. Canned or fresh anchovies?

The question is, how can you not go for it?

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Well if you value your liver and life expectancy perhaps. :lol:

Im pretty sure the anchovies will be canned since this is the Third World Im in.

PoS said:

In case you didnt know, there's a mall near my house within walking distance, and there's one particular restaurant that keeps going under every six months or so. I believe the owners havent changed since the theme is always the same. Anyway now they've reopened and are now offering eat all you can tapas for $10. Unlimited sangria and gin tonic is an extra $10.

The tapas they have includes fried potato croquettes, meatballs, quail egg and anchovy pinxos, egg and potato omelet. For an extra $5 they include paella, steamed mussels, Iberico chicken.

What do you guys think? Should I go for it? I'll probably be stuffed and drunk afterwards.

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You only live once, I say go for it!

PoS said:

Well if you value your liver and life expectancy perhaps. :lol:

Im pretty sure the anchovies will be canned since this is the Third World Im in.

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If the anchovies are canned, why would you care about your liver and life expectancy? Clearly there's nothing to live for, go for it, bud... :lol:

Self control is the key. Just because it all you can eat doesn't mean you should.

If you look around the place and see nothing but the gluttonous.....there's your sign.

PoS said:

In case you didnt know, there's a mall near my house within walking distance, and there's one particular restaurant that keeps going under every six months or so. I believe the owners havent changed since the theme is always the same. Anyway now they've reopened and are now offering eat all you can tapas for $10. Unlimited sangria and gin tonic is an extra $10.

The tapas they have includes fried potato croquettes, meatballs, quail egg and anchovy pinxos, egg and potato omelet. For an extra $5 they include paella, steamed mussels, Iberico chicken.

What do you guys think? Should I go for it? I'll probably be stuffed and drunk afterwards.

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Kind of a harsh sounding breakfast. Especially the gin and tonics, but you go for it. Let us know where to send the get-well-soon cards.

In all seriousness, if I were under the age of 40, and at that price, I’d look at their offer as a challenge that had to be vanquished.

I thought Americans were the only ones that ate “by the pound!”

PoS said:

Well if you value your liver and life expectancy perhaps. :lol:

Im pretty sure the anchovies will be canned since this is the Third World Im in.

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One dinner doesn't sound life threatening, but then botulism.

Outside of Italy and Spain, southern France, fresh anchovies are a 3rd world regular if near the sea. When I discuss food with local immigrant restauranteurs, canned anchovies are reacted to as an infamia. I learned the difference at a local Pico bar serving tapas. The place had the best bluefish ceviche on the dinner menu. That was about 30 years ago, when no one here knew what tapas were, let alone the ethnic distinctions. Empanadas and plantains were a revelation. A banana is not always a banana. Coyos, sweetbreads with oysters from a nearby Ecuadorian lunch truck in Maspeth Queens, factory territory, is always worth the short drive. Sure beats ptomaine Tommy's 7 days a simmering hot dogs. Definitely worth waiting on the line.

PoS said:

In case you didnt know, there's a mall near my house within walking distance, and there's one particular restaurant that keeps going under every six months or so. I believe the owners havent changed since the theme is always the same. Anyway now they've reopened and are now offering eat all you can tapas for $10. Unlimited sangria and gin tonic is an extra $10.

The tapas they have includes fried potato croquettes, meatballs, quail egg and anchovy pinxos, egg and potato omelet. For an extra $5 they include paella, steamed mussels, Iberico chicken.

What do you guys think? Should I go for it? I'll probably be stuffed and drunk afterwards.

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I hate you for even posting that picture.....I wont be able to indulge until I make it back to the states.

That being said.....be a proper gent and have a few for me....indulge. :cheers:

Rexedgar said:

I thought Americans were the only ones that ate “by the pound!”

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May I suggest an exploratory vacation to dine at the local restaurants of rural Spain, France and Italy? They serve 3 lb lunches, 8 lb dinners. 2 bottles of local wines mandatory. Greece was worse. Some of the best fish dishes in the world, baked in local cheeses, with piles of couscous, olives and huge salads. And more olives. Dinner at noon, lunch early evening. Tunisia, bottomless stews by other names, flatbreads, olives and crudités, and their own versions of different meads, made from honey so not prohibited by the Koran. Tunisia is the world's 3rd largest, and historically oldest grower of olives. The country breads everywhere worth the price of admission.

OldFatGuy said:

May I suggest an exploratory vacation to dine at the local restaurants of rural Spain, France and Italy? They serve 3 lb lunches, 8 lb dinners. 2 bottles of local wines mandatory. Greece was worse. Some of the best fish dishes in the world, baked in local cheeses, with piles of couscous, olives and huge salads. And more olives. Dinner at noon, lunch early evening. Tunisia, bottomless stews by other names, flatbreads, olives and crudités, and their own versions of different meads, made from honey so not prohibited by the Koran. Tunisia is the world's 3rd largest, and historically oldest grower of olives. The country breads everywhere worth the price of admission.

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I have travelled, gastronomically! No Golden Corral, then? Standard domestic chow is only good if there are more than one ethnic slant interjected........

Rexedgar said:

I have travelled, gastronomically! No Golden Corral, then? Standard domestic chow is only good if there are more than one ethnic slant interjected........

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We followed the farming towns, and the restaurants don't look like restaurants. These people work hard, in the fields, the smitheries, with the livestock, and walk everywhere. They burn off those calories. I watched the thinnest 12 year old girl in Ischia down a huge bowl of pasta and beans, then go on to bowls of vegetables, stews, platters of fish, cheeses, slurping mugs of black coffee, and then dessert of fruit and tarts. She literally killed a loaf of bread on her own. Went back 15 years later, she was just as slender, with a baby on her hip, and two toddlers walking in her shadow, thin as it was. She was replastering the exterior walls of the local church by herself. Her good deed. She and her husband owned a dairy farm and grew oranges and nuts. My wife bought homemade linen, cotton blend bath towels from her. I still have them and use them almost daily.

That was more than 20 years ago. Ischia is still my favorite island, if only for the food and history.

OldFatGuy said:

We followed the farming towns, and the restaurants don't look like restaurants. These people work hard, in the fields, the smitheries, with the livestock, and walk everywhere. They burn off those calories. I watched the thinnest 12 year old girl in Ischia down a huge bowl of pasta and beans, then go on to bowls of vegetables, stews, platters of fish, cheeses, slurping mugs of black coffee, and then dessert of fruit and tarts. She literally killed a loaf of bread on her own. Went back 15 years later, she was just as slender, with a baby on her hip, and two toddlers walking in her shadow, thin as it was. She was replastering the exterior walls of the local church by herself. Her good deed. She and her husband owned a dairy farm and grew oranges and nuts. My wife bought homemade linen, cotton blend bath towels from her. I still have them and use them almost daily.

That was more than 20 years ago. Ischia is still my favorite island, if only for the food and history.

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Closest we got was Pompeii. We did tour Corsica and Sicily; very nice. After the first time in Rome/Italy, I had a business idea. Go home and buy a boxcar full of crapper seats. Only the best hotels come with them, Italians avoid seats as though they were “Black Death!” Need to work on your balance if you want to go into public......

Rexedgar said:

Closest we got was Pompeii. We did tour Corsica and Sicily; very nice. After the first time in Rome/Italy, I had a business idea. Go home and buy a boxcar full of crapper seats. Only the best hotels come with them, Italians avoid seats as though they were “Black Death!” Need to work on your balance if you want to go into public......

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We have many extended family members who live in Corsica. It was the first place in Europe I visited, with family, as a preteen. Sicily is gorgeous. I can easily understand why everyone wanted it and kept invading. And definitely the best grappa. My father gave us a guided tour of every spot where he and his buds dug latrines during the invasion. He said sometimes they doubled as fox holes, and they were too busy to change battle fatigues. Everyone knew they were coming and not distant enough, hoping they'd leave quickly. No kisses from the girls they "liberated."

I know those bathrooms, and the art is to not sit when you sit.

Worse in China and other parts of Asia, a hole in the floor. Meanwhile the Japanese have heated seats with water jets for cleaning, builtin mp3 players and TV's across from you as you sit on a literal throne. Go figure? I blame MacArthur.

I never made it to Pompeii, still on my bucket list. I surrendered my rent a car, the first hour I was in Rome. Thereon, taxis. Just nuts. Everyone was playing chicken.