Bites: Iberian restaurants
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Your support makes all the difference.Spanish cuisine can be ever so Moorish, so try out these other Iberian restaurants
Barioja
"Now we are in fashion," says Ignacio (aka Igg), owner of Edinburgh's most assured – and only – Spanish restaurant Igg's. Its boldly decorated tapas bar neighbour shares the kitchen and the courage to offer more than the usual tortilla. That means gambas al pil pil, vegetable tempura with aioli; good cheeses, great bread. Shame no one drinks sherry much – cava sells better – but the wine list's an asset.
19 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh (0131 557 3622)
Cambio de Tercio
London's best Spanish restaurant? Yes, as confirmed by the Tio Pepe Carlton London Restaurant Awards (aptly sponsored by the sherry people) where it left four others in the shade to win. Not just a moment in the sun, either, for a cracking restaurant that cooks Spanish dishes with elan and inventiveness, and aims high with, say, wild seabass and vegetable stew with Jabugo ham velouté. It's wildly popular with an animated international crowd. £40 a head.
163 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 (020-7244 8970)
Kazbar
Straddling the Straits of Gibraltar, this Spanish and Moorish bar still sells plenty of sherry – no, not Bristol Cream – as well as the requisite beers to a cool Oxford crowd. The theme is more loosely applied when it comes to Moroccan iced tea with a shot of vodka. To eat: a plate of Serrano, olives, potatoes with chorizo, manchego and membrillo (cheese and quince paste) or, to match the music, Moroccan lamb.
25-27 Cowley Road, Oxford (01865 202920)
Star Inn
A country pub with real ales, and less typically, a welcoming Catalan landlady who is responsible for genuine Spanish food – so good you should book, even for the bar. Salmon Galician-style with dill, potatoes, cream and wine, or merluza a la Vasca – hake with parsley, garlic, peas and clams, and Spanish roast lamb explain why. A big plate of mussels is the least you should eat as it's not a tapas bar. Brit bread and butter and sticky toffee puddings reinforce the limited Spanish desserts.
The Street, Lidgate, Suffolk (01638 500275)
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