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Spanish Tapas at Sol y Sombra in Kreuzberg
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Tapas in Kreuzberg: Fingering Flavoursome Food
On the Oranienplatz, directly on the lively and very cool Oranienstraße in Kreuzberg and only a stone’s throw away from the Kottbusser Tor, one finds a couple of very pretty restaurants. They seem a bit more posh and up-scale than many of the small eateries you can see on the Oranienstraße. And one of these restraurants is Sol y Sombra. Last winter, while wading through inches of thick snow, I stumbled into this small restaurant. The atmosphere is very candle light-y, the decoration is quaintly Mediterrean and the food basically revolves around tapas. Sure, you can order a main dish and be particularly lazy, but that would just be silly.
So of course, we too, ordered tapas. When you go to Sol y Sombra around dinner time, you will most likely have to spend a bit of time lounging at the bar with a nice glas of wine – or a Spanish beer to wait for a table. Never a hassle when it’s only two people. And when ordering tapas, you also have the joined fun of picking and matching your food. We actually made a proper list on a coaster while sipping drinks at the bar. By the time our food (no less than eight different tapa dishes) came, our table was ready.
When it comes to tapas, I am a big fat slutty fan of the dates or prunes with a layer of bacon (crispily baked, of course). Such a slut, that we actually ordered the dish twice. The classical flavour combination of crunchy and spicy bacon with the soft sweet texture of a prune is something almost magical. But when one is eating tapas, you will not feel too bad about ordering a ‘naughty’ dish, considering you only get a small plateful of it. To supplement my slutty prune craving, we also had gamba’s, green peppers, chorizo, calamares, spicy meatballs and Spanish tortilla (also one of my favourites – a thick eggy pancake with potatoes).
