Eat Out London!Drakes Tabanco
Drakes Tabanco restaurant ~ mouth-watering tapas in central London. Find us in Charlotte St Fitzrovia, near Goodge St, Oxford St & Soho ☎ 0207 6379388
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Restaurant review: Drakes Trabanco in Fitzrovia is sherry good ...
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Far from being a cross between a French fag shop and a Spanish bank, a tabanco is a tavern in Jerez, Andalucía, where sherry is made.
They’ve got sherry in casks and bottles, the difference amply demonstrated by one plain, pale fino and a richer, more complex one straight from the wood.
More Oloroso adds a sharp complexity to a chocolate tart.
The pastry is tough, but the filling doesn’t half go well with a glass of sherry.
A meal for two with sherry and service costs about £80.
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REVIEW: Drakes Tabanco, Windmill Street, Fitzrovia - The Foodaholic
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Falling apart at the touch of my fork but still with a little crunch, and that romesco sauce – they should bottle it, it was that good.
Smoked pork sausage let the side down a little bit as i was expecting something more similar to thinly sliced pieces of smoky pork sausage, or warm and grilled.
Garlic and chilli prawns brought us back down to reality from the beer drinking delights with a plate of hot, grilled prawns doused in oil, lots of garlic and a good whack of chilli.
They could have done so much more with this dish but instead it looked a bit dull and was a little uninspiring.
The lamb, which was mostly fat (the good crispy kind) was perhaps a little over cooked for most – but just right for the dish they were serving.
New Restaurant Review: Drakes Tabanco | Londonist
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If you’re wondering what the name is all about, a tabanco is a kind of tapas bar found in Jerez, Andalucia, where all sherry is made.
We’re not sure Drakes has quite that much sherry on the premises, but it certainly brings with it the spirit of a rural Spanish bar by the barrel load.
At the front of the restaurant is a bar area, which comes complete with five barrels of different sherries, including a nutty oloroso and a treacle-sweet pedro ximenez.
It would feel more Spanish if it wasn’t scattered with Fitzrovia media types, but the idea that you can bring in a container and fill it up with sherry straight from the barrel is surely enough to coax out your Mediterranean spirit before you even head into the main eating area.
We’d be surprised if there was another bar this side of the Channel where you could be served several different sherries straight from their barrels, so Drakes Tabanco wins plenty of points there.
Restaurant review: Tabanco
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Images: Tabanco will be serving delicious tapas dishes as well as larger Spanish feasts Edition gets a delicious preview of Green Street's new tapas bar It’s not often that you get to visit a restaurant before it actually exists – so when Edition was offered a preview of the food offering at what was soon to be the newest restaurant on Green Street, we understandably jumped at the chance.
Opening its doors in early March, Tabanco will be a proudly independent tapas bar serving barrelled sherries, fine wines, delicious small-plate eats and larger Spanish-inspired feasts.
As you’d expect, the menu at Tabanco will be inspired by the successful dishes found at the team’s other restaurants, but the Cambridge-based chefs will also be creating their own seasonal specials where they can show off their skills and the first-rate produce they’re offering to diners.
At weekends, the restaurant will serve Spanish-inspired breakfasts as well as their weekday menu, so it sounds like Tabanco could quite easily become another much-needed spot for a languid brunch in the centre of our city.
And if Tabanco manages to make good on their dreams of a relaxed eatery offering the sort of dishes we were treated to, then the future for 38-39 Green Street looks very bright indeed.
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Grace Dent reviews Drakes Tabanco | London Evening Standard
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Pre-Christmas I was dispatched to Drakes Tabanco in Windmill Street, just off Charlotte Street, for an authentic Jerez sherry and tapas Iberian experience.
The Drake bit, it says, refers to British, ahem, ‘salty seadog’ Sir Francis Drake, who apparently hatched the British love of sherry by bringing 3,000 butts of it back from a venture.
I assume it’s due to the Brit connection that apple crumble, strawberry bakewell with clotted cream, braised rib with parsnips and British cheeses feature on the menu, too.
It’s a long, slender, taupe-painted, rather modern room, which doesn’t feel particularly Spanish or particularly British, although Lee Chapman and Leslie Ash lightly bickering at the table beside me did give me an authentic 1990s British dining experience.
Neither is this Copita (in the same group), where the menu swishes with intriguing small plates and it’s all too easy to let the bill mount up as the venue shifts into a chatty, standing-room-only bunfight.
Drakes Tabanco | Restaurants in Fitzrovia, London
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The Iberification of Fitzrovia continues with this tapas and sherry spot from the people behind nearby Barrica and Soho’s Copita.
A tabanco is a sherry and tapas bar typical of Jerez, the capital of Andalusia and the centre of the sherry trade – in fact, tabancos are so traditional that Cervantes wrote a poem about them.
Drakes’s USP is sherry ‘en rama’ – from the barrel, as it’s served in Jerez.
The rare palo cortado, with its savoury, saline edge, and the rich, nutty, dry oloroso are mind-blowingly intense.
Sherry also figures large in such typically Jerezano desserts as vanilla ice-cream with Malaga raisins and PX sherry.