Im Spanish, I moved to Norway, and I am completely traumatized by Norwegian conception of “Spanish Tapas” 😭

by iBullyDummies

10 comments

  1. Maybe they consider it tapas by widely stretching the definition of finger food.. A lot of restaurants get pretty pretentious with their dishes. Maybe they couldn’t figure out how to charge 40€ for finger food.

  2. Nothing.

    But that pretty much happens in all other “foreign” food restaurants. Most people are aware of the fact that what is served has nothing to do with the real food from these countries. I mean, most of us have been many times in Spain so we know that this is not what you get served there.

    But still, if it tastes good… 😉

  3. We all are: wait till you try taco pizza and taco soup.

  4. I am not qualified to claim anything on the tavle is “spanish” food, but if i were served those things and told it was “spanish food”, i would’ve assumed it to be so.

    But if a spaniard tells me it’s not, i would be confused for a while before accepting that someone misled me.

    I thought they were “light meals”.

    Though from what google results show me, nothing like the pictures you’ve provided.

    If one expected something along what they show on
    https://spain.info/en/top/recommended-popular-spanish-tapas/
    Then i understand your disappointment even more.

    Perhaps noone with a history with Spain are behind the restaurant?

  5. From the plates, it looks like Escalon? They have both authentic Spanish tapas, and worldwide inspired tapas like dishes. Perhaps you ordered the last kind? Their regular tapa consist of authentic dishes, like patatas bravas, bacon wrapped dates, Parma ham, etc.

  7. Reminds me of the time when I went to a ”Nordic” restaurant in Germany and their main Norwegian meal was Salmon with chili sauce

  8. It surprises me that they would present this as “Spanish”, it doesn’t look Spanish in the slightest to me.

    The word “tapas”, however, is nowadays often just a collective term for “a collection of small dishes that taste non-Norwegian”. Here in Norway, that is. It’s incorrect, of course, but I think lots of people use it that way. But calling this Spanish seems strange.

  9. Who gives a shit.

    A spanish restaurant usually means tapas/fingerfood of different types, most of them superglobalized and hypermodern. Its not ment to be your grandmothers kitchen.

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