{"id":10351,"date":"2010-06-26T21:06:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=10351"},"modified":"2024-08-31T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T13:18:40","slug":"tapas-fantasticas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10351","title":{"rendered":"Tapas Fantasticas &#8211; Hotter than Spain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Glorious sunny day at <a title=\"Tapas Fantasticus\" href=\"http:\/\/riojatapasfantasticas.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tapas Fantasticas<\/a> in Potters Fields Park.\u00a0 This is my second year attending this food and drink festival, last year it was in a more cramped location in Brick Lane.\u00a0 I really like the new\u00a0site, nestled in between landmark buildings like Tower Bridge and\u00a0City\u00a0Hall, it is a stunning setting.\u00a0 The festival which is organised by <a title=\"Wines from Rioja\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winesfromrioja.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wines from Rioja<\/a> seems to be very lucky with the weather &#8211; it was on during a heat wave last year as well.\u00a0\u00a0 It is such a civilized day out,\u00a0 entrance is free and there are no real queues for any of the stands which sell reasonably priced wine by the glass and off course some rather good Tapas.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10351 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0118.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0118-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0122.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0122-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0123.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0123-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0125.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0125-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0127.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0127-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0128.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tn_IMAG0128-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are also organised wine tastings, we booked a session with <a title=\"Olly Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ollysmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Chefs Olly Smith<\/a>, who is always good value and guaranteed entertainment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However my favourite wine of the day wasn&#8217;t at the tasting, but was from the <a title=\"el coto de rioja\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elcoto.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Coto de Rioja <\/a>stand. It was a really smooth Coto de Imaz Reserva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I also tried a couple of Tapas dishes &#8211; Salt cod fried in batter, and some blue cheese and ham croquettes, both delicious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next years festival will be in my diary too,\u00a0weather permitting\u00a0off course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glorious sunny day at Tapas Fantasticas in Potters Fields Park.\u00a0 This is my second year attending this food and drink festival, last year it was in a more cramped location in Brick Lane.\u00a0 I really like the new\u00a0site, nestled in between landmark buildings like Tower Bridge and\u00a0City\u00a0Hall, it is a stunning setting.\u00a0 The festival which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tapas Fantasticas &#8211; Hotter than Spain!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,7,822],"tags":[348,347,346],"class_list":["post-10351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-festivals","category-london","category-tapas","tag-el-coto-de-rioja","tag-olly-smith","tag-tapas-fantasticus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10351"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32258,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions\/32258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}