Tapas Bar

Tapas Bar is a well liked restaurant on the somewhat depressing Maoming Lu. Better days for the once popular bar and restaurant alley have long since past. There are a few great spots on the street (House of Jazz and Blues, Blue Frog), so do not just wholly pass it by. Still, don’t be surprised by the clearly run-down bars that endured extreme popularity three years ago when neon lights and drunk partiers spilled out onto the now dark and lonely street. 

 

Tapas Bar is a two story bar and restaurant that offers great specials (cheap tapas and drinks during happy hour), but keeps customers coming all night for its inexpensive and tasty food. For tapas, we particularly liked the calamari, bruschetta, and Gambas, which were all priced around 30 – 40RMB.  The selection of main courses is smaller than the tapas style menu items, but we loved the veggie penne, with fresh, not over-cooked, veggies and pesto (45RMB).  Drinks cost around 45RMB; I recommend trying the Sangria.

 

Tapas Bar is a cheaper, but not quite as good an option for tapas than Azul and Viva, a great choice for a swankier evening.

 

Take Metro Line 1 to Shanxi Road Station. Head south on Shanxi Lu. Take a left on Fuxing Lu, and then a right on Maoming Lu. Tapas Bar will be on the left side.