Spanish cuisine

When you start looking at Spanish cuisine more closely you can see that the each region in Spain has a pretty distinctive style, for example food from the Galicia region in the north west of the country tends to feature substantial dishes with lots of meat, for example meat pies, whereas Valencia is where much of Spain's rice is grown and is where paella is most popular.

When people think of Spanish restaurants and cuisine, Tapas is likely to be one of the first things to come to mind and Tapas is the ideal introduction to Spanish cuisine. Dining at a Tapas restaurant is a little different from what you'd expect from traditional UK restaurant dining, you could almost describe it as a formal buffet. Each dish on the menu is a small sample of a Spanish dish and the idea is that you and the people you are dining with each choose three or four dishes on the menu to share with everybody else. Those dishes are then brought over and depending on how generous your friends are, you can eat from all the dishes on the table until you are full – fantastic!