It’s a standard question, posed by nearly every server in every restaurant you visit (and perhaps by the chef at your villa Puerto Vallarta): “Would you like to start off with something special before you order your meal?” It is an invitation to take a hard look at the hors d’oeuvres list and select something that’s small and yummy and guaranteed to pique your appetite. In Mexico, whether you’re sitting in the kitchen at your villa Puerto Vallarta or your favorite beachfront café or one of the city’s most elegant restaurants, they’re called tapas, and you can make an entire meal of them. We’re not talking chips and salsa, here – serious tapas look a bit like lovely, tasty mini-meals. If you need further convincing, pay a visit to Barcelona Tapas, located downtown at the corner of Matamoros and de Octubre. These folks have a menu of tapas that will make your head spin. You can choose cold or hot dishes, dishes that feature cheeses and seafood and chicken – the list goes on and on. The selection is so big, in fact, that the kind folks at Barcelona Tapas have created the “Chef’s Surprise Tasting Menu,” a combination of hots, colds and sweets, to break the ice.
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