This place is not a crappy Tapas Bar, and if you don’t like the tourist places, you choose to eat where the locals are - you are here. Like the endless variety of tapas, the history of the name of this dish is just as endless. Here are some of them. The word "tapas" comes from the Spanish / Portuguese verb "tapar", "show up", akin to English "put on top". In Spain, until the 19th century, tapas were served in snack bars or wine cellars, inviting guests to get acquainted with the "summary of the dish." Since few owners could write, and few of the guests could read, in the eatery they offered their guests a selection of available dishes on tapas. If you read the book “The Joys of Cooking,” in the original tapas were thin slices of bread or meat that were served to sherry in Andalusian taverns. They were salty, which activated thirst and the bartender heard the longing: "Lei more!". Tapas eventually became as important as sherry. There are many tapas competitions in Spain, but there is only one National Tapas competition, which is celebrated every year in November. Since 2008, the city of Valladolid and the International School of Culinary Art introduced the International Tapas Competition for Culinary Schools.