Tasty tapas, tasty prices

10 April 2012

A small, no-frills Spanish restaurant and tapas bar, El Parador seems to be somewhat stranded in the quiet little enclave around Mornington Crescent, between King's Cross and Camden.

It serves very tasty tapas at very reasonable prices and has a friendly, laid-back atmosphere, even on busy Friday and Saturday nights.

Try a glass of the dry Manzanilla to start or accompany your meal.

It's a perfect foil for tapas.

As ever with tapas, the fun part of eating here is choosing several dishes from the wide selection on offer, and then sharing and swapping with your companions.

Allow at least two or three tapas a head - more for a really filling meal - and go for at least one of the fish or seafood dishes, which are treats.

Highlights include chipirones salteados, baby squid pan-fried with sea salt and olive oil, or salteados de gambas, nice fat tiger prawns pan-fried with parsley, paprika and chilli.

Carnivores shouldn't miss out on the jam?n serrano - delicious Spanish cured ham, or the morcilla de Burgos, sausages that are a cousin of black pudding.

The vegetarian tapas are particularly good here.

Try pure de patatas del Parador, mash with pan-fried pepper and Manchego, or tortilla Espa?ola, a classic Spanish omelette.

Desserts keep up the pace: marquesa de chocolate is a luscious, creamy, home-made chocolate mousse, while flan de naranja is a really good orange crème caramel.

The al fresco tables hidden behind the resto are sought after and should be booked in advance.

It's worth checking out El Parador's strong selection of Spanish wines as there are some good-value bottles.

El Parador
Eversholt Street, London, NW1 1BA

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