How many tapas per person for dinner?

Portion sizes will vary by restaurant, but typically, ordering 2 to 3 tapas per person gets the job done. So a party of 4 would order 8 to 12 tapas between them. Don't be afraid to ask your server if you haven't ordered enough food, and remember, your friends are there to help if you've ordered too much.



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Traditionally, in Spain, dinner is served late. Tapas served as snacks to keep hunger at bay before the main meal. Their popularity has grown, and tapas are now often eaten as the main meal. They can be thought of as samplers, or you can make a complete meal by combining two or more tapas to enjoy a variety of flavors.

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Obviously, it depends a lot on how many people you are on the table, the size of portions and type of dishes (a salad, carbohydrates, meat/fish). However, in general, the following formula works quite well: two to three tapas per person. If you are more than four people, you can consider ordering certain dishes twice.

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Once seated, don't order everything at once. Many tapas are already prepared and you could end up with 5-6 dishes arriving at once. Also, you may see something “walk by” that looks good, so best to start with just one or two tapas each and take it from there.

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What is not allowed on Tapas? Our content guidelines are pretty straightforward, not allowing excessive violence and gore, hateful content or copyrighted work, among other issues. Within comics, we also do not allow nudity of any kind and mature/sexual content.

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This might sound surprising, as many people know the very central idea of tapas is that they are to be shared. This is often the case of course, but not a must-do at all. To go for tapas alone, pick places that offer small portions of things like croquetes, bombes or pintxos.

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