as I wait for bathroom availability...

I've decided to post about the recent trend happening in my life. Tapas! I have been to two of our most well known Spanish style tapas places in Chicago recently (first Emilio's Tapas on Ohio st, then Cafe Iberico on La Salle) and I am about to visit the third (Cafe Ba-ba-Reeba on Halsted).

Normally I promote these sort of mini obsessions with food, but I've been taken out to tapas by others and had some really great food.

Reasons why tapas are the world's most perfect food:

variety--from hot to cold, seafood to meat, soup and more...

if you don't like something, chances are, someone else will and you don't have to finish.

fork feeding another grown up never seemed so natural.

small portions.

the unexpected: dates wrapped in bacon drizzled with roasted red pepper sauce.

because things are supposed to be quick and fast, no overcooking.

sangria goes really well with tapas...

it's uber communal. promotes sharing. feels democratic.

I've been looking forward to Cafe Ba-ba-Reeba, since that is the first place I had tapas some twelve years ago, when I went out with my first boyfriend and his parents. All I remember about that night is us slinking twenty squares of sidewalk behind them, whispering and talking about the future.