Spanish

• La Gamba sees Applebee's serve up Spanish tapas on the South Bank

  

  Applebee's Fish, which first started as a stall in Borough Market, is trying something new. The brothers behind it, Jack, Harry and Matthew Applebee are opening Spanish tapas restaurant La Gamba in the Southbank Centre. 

  They'll be largely concentrating on the north-western Galician region, with a particular (but not sole) focus on seafood dishes, which makes sense, given

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• Maresco sees team behind North London's Bar Esteban and Escocesa hit Soho

  

  "We should have been open months ago," says Maresco's owner Stephen Lironi in the bright but slightly punchdrunk way of anyone trying to open a restaurant in London in the current climate. Apparently, energy supplies have been the last remaining piece in the puzzle for this Spanish, by way of Scotland, seafood restaurant that's just getting ready to open its doors in Soho.

  The whole project has actually been five

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• Test Driving Barrafina Borough Yards - same brilliant tapas but this one's good for groups too

  

  Just around the corner from Borough Market, you'll find the latest Barrafina, and this one is particularly good if you're dining as a group. We took a stool up at the marble counter to give their specials a go.

• Salt Yard have brought Mediterranean tapas to Borough

  

  Salt Yard are growing again. They only recently expanded to Westfield and now the latest Salt Yard has opened in Borough. 

  As with their previous openings, it's a combo of Spanish and Italian tapas in a venue that's decked out with lots of exposed brickwork. The

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• Barrafina brings their Spanish tapas to Borough Yards

  

  They've already launched Bar Daskal and Parrillan at Borough Yards now the Harts Group are onto their final launch there, a new Barrafina.

• Test Driving Parrillan Borough Yards - the next evolution of the Spanish grill restaurant

  

  After success at King's Cross, The Harts Group have opened a second Parrillan at Borough Yards - bigger than before and with an indoor restaurant too. We went down to try it out.  

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  Tapast in Covent Garden

• El Norte is a new high-end Spanish restaurant for Mayfair

  

  The people behind Kensington's Latin American restaurant Zuaya and Como Garden, the Italian restaurant next door, are looking to Spain for inspiration for their next restaurant, El Norte. This time they're moving a little further afield, to Mayfair's Dover Street, and the restaurant will be focusing on Spain's northern regions.

  Although opening before the end of the year, info is

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• Test Driving Bibo Shoreditch - Dani Garcia's first London restaurant

  

  Much-lauded Spanish chef Dani Garcia has picked Shoreditch as the site of his first London restaurant. We went along to see if the Bibo concept has survived the journey. 

• Brindisa's next restaurant will be a riverside tapas joint in Richmond

  

  In these unpredictable times for international travel comes the heartening news that Brindisa, London’s beloved Spanish tapas emporium, is opening a new outlet and the lucky locale is Richmond. If you fancy avoiding the queues at Heathrow, then you can soon find Spain in London’s southwest for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  With seating for 150 inside and 60 on the terrace with Thames views, it sounds like an ideal

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• José Pizarro is opening two restaurants at the Royal Academy

  

  Famed Spanish chef José Pizarro is opening in the centre of London for the first time - with two new restaurants at the Royal Academy. He'll have a more traditional sit-down Spanish restaurant upstairs while Poster Bar will be the Royal Academy version of his tapas bar, José.

• The Tapas Room arrives in Peckham next

  

  South London Spanish restaurant The Tapas Room is expanding again. They're already in Tooting, Deptford, Battersea and Brixton - now they're coming to Peckham too. The restaurant has its roots in the successful Donostia Social Club pop-up and this will be the group's largest restaurant yet.

  The main menus will be a mix of snacks, tapas, meat and cheese. So, alongside the usual suspects like croquetas

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• Mediterranean rice by Arros QD head chef Richard de la Cruz - London restaurant recipes

  

  Arros QD is top Spanish chef Quique Dacosta's Fitzrovia restaurant that specialises in paella - they're sharing with us one of their top recipes.

• Spinach & goat’s cheese croquetas by José Pizarro - London restaurant recipes

  

  José Pizarro's book Basque takes a look at some of the best restaurants from the Basque country, and we've picked out one in particular for you to try. His croquetas are amazing - so here's a chance for you to replicate them at home. 

• London restaurant recipes - chicken thighs and patatas panaderas by Sabor's Nieves Barragan

  

  Nieves Barragan's Sabor is one of the most highly-rated Spanish restaurants in London (with a Michelin star to boot). Here's one of her recipes to try at home, created in collaboration with Estrella Galicia - and there's also a chance to win a box from Sabor too.