Bar Tapa

Omg! This place has some of the most amazing tapas outside of Spain Smart casual atmosphere great food amazing service This place is a must. We loved it here. It was our first time but won’t be our last. We sat outside and just people watched sipping a nice glass of wine and enjoying the food as it came. Food is fresh an incredible. Do yourself a favour and just go!

If you want the experience of a good tapas bar, this is the one. This bar would be a very good one if it were in Spain. Here in Sydney, the best I tired so far. It's not the typical restaurant with an endless low quality menu, they have a modest menu which is more than enough, but you know everything they serve is top quality and excellent flavours. The service is excellent, always smiling and fast. The price is very reasonable, I would say cheap for the quality you get.

Lovely little restaurant with great music! There is a nice selection of food to choose from. The tapas we ordered were very enjoyable, though the pimientos rellenos were a little bland. The paella could do with more meat and seafood, but was quite tasty to eat. It would be nicer if the chicken pieces used in the paella were boneless. Overall an enjoyable meal and a place that I wouldn't mind returning to for more!

Not bad tapas restaurant which can cater for couples, small-larger groups & walk ins. Service could be a bit more attentive & found it hard to find anyone at some points even though the place wasn’t very busy. We had to ask a few times for when our order of bar tapa’s version of bruschetta (as described by one of the waitresses) well after our other dishes were finished. It also had a tad bit too much salt on it which was a shame because it was rather tasty had it not been for the salt over powering it. The other dishes were good & had great flavours but having to wait for our last dish & the lack of service is why I haven’t given it a higher score.

Loved the place , really good service and variety of drinks. I really liked the ambience as well, lots of Spanish songs. For food we just got the patatas bravas and olives . Both were a really good compliment for our drinks and would definitely order again. For drinks we tried a variety. Tinto de verano was good but I felt it was missing a bit of the taste of wine. Next time I’ll try the sangria. The kalimotxo is what you would expect from coke and wine, still I think it was missing a bit more wine. The masclet I found really interesting and would try again. Finally I ordered the rebujito which I loved but just keep in mind it’s sweet. Overall had a great night and looking forward to come back and try some more cocktails and food.

There’s something very satisfying about finishing work, heading into a bar, and them being thoughtful enough to deliver you a little snack with your first, take-the-edge-off drink. Perhaps to curb the effects of an increasingly drunken workforce, delivering something tasty with your drink became a practice that still exists in places like Granada, Spain today. I suspect I wanted to like Bar Tapa because of my enthusiasm for this Spanish style of eating and drinking, more than I actually liked their food. The venue has taken over the Stanley Street space briefly occupied by Lazy Suzie (which then became Lucky Suzie after a tussle over a trademark). The exposed brick walls are now home to wall-to-wall Spanish memorabilia, which we take in over Sangria ($40/jug) that’s light and accessible. Our accompanying pincho (Spanish for thorn or spike) is a toothpick-speared slice of Spanish omelette on bread - bland but it does the job to ease those hunger pangs. With good bitterness from Pampelle L'apero Aperitif (ruby red grapefruit liqueur), blended with gin and sweet red vermouth (verut tinto), the Terroni ($14) would also make a good pre-dinner tipple. You'll like it if you are partial to a Negroni. Me, I’m mostly a martini drinker, and as such I enjoyed the Martini De La Casa ($14). It packed a surprising blast of heat from the brine being used for more than just olives, as the banderilla (named for a bullfighter's decorated dart) of pickles should have given away. While the drinks were good, our tapas were a bit less exciting. Buñuelos de Bacalao ($9) here are made with fresh cod rather than the pungent, salted dried cod you might be used to, which made them eat like mildly flavoured crisp, potato balls. Morcilla Encebollada ($9) was a bit better in the flavour department, with mild rounds of blood sausage served under a spoonful of slow-cooked onions and a dusting of parsley. A dish this simple lives or dies on the quality of your morcilla. I wished the Champiñones a la Plancha ($9) came as button mushrooms, with their caps containing a big burst of garlicky oil. Instead they were served as parsely-dominated slices that cooled too quickly on the plate, leaving me with precious little to mop up. This may have been fortuitous, because crusty bread was in short supply - the dish only came with two morsels of pimento piquillo paste-topped bread. We foolishly ordered Pan Con Tomate ($4) to eat with our embutidos (meats) and quesos (cheese) but only because it was the only menu option that we noticed that fitted the bill. Would have loved to have been steered towards crusty bread, because the tomato and olive oil rubbed sourdough only worked against Anchoas ($6) – a little plate of four anchovies and pitted green olives. Twelve-month old Manchego ($12) and Jamon Serrano ($12) would both have been better against plainer bread. Service was pleasant, though I probably would have drunk another round of cocktails if it had been more attentive. I found it slow to catch their attention, particularly as the loud, echoing space began to fill with noisy groups.