Simply Tapas & Vinho

We have a restaurant of International and Portuguese dishes. The wines make the accompaniment of choice of this gastronomy, we have for you the best wine cellar in the city to taste.

Please feel free to browse the rest of our extensive range of wines from Portugal, Spain and the Rest of the World in our Adega. Enjoy with your Tapas or to SIMPLY take home.

     There are several stories about the origin of tapas, which are a part of the folklore:
 It is told that King Alfonso X, el Sabio or “the Wise One,” made sure that Castilian taverns served wine accompanied by something to eat, so that the wine would not go straight to the clients' heads. Another story claims that while on a long trip, King Alfonso had stopped to rest in the town of  Ventorillo del Chato in the southern province of Cádiz, and he ordered a glass of *jerez* or sherry.  There was a gusty wind, so the inn keeper served him his glass of sherry covered by a slice of ham to prevent the sherry from getting dirty.  King Alfonso apparently liked it, and when he asked for a second glass, he requested another tapa or “cover” just like the first.