Barrafina

Description

Brothers Sam and Eddie Hart – owners of London’s finest upmarket Spanish restaurant, Fino – go back to basics with the most authentic tapas bar you’ll find outside Spain. It’s so authentic you can’t actually book a table (you wait at the bar for one of the 23 stools to be vacated). But all your tapas favourites – freshly cooked tortilla, cold meats, tuna tartare, morcilla, croquetas, piquillo peppers, quail – are expertly cooked and accompanied by a fine Spanish wine list. John Lewis

Expect to pay £70 (based on two people dining, inlcuding a bottle of wine)

THE HOUSE SPECIALITY

Watching the seafood – enormous prawns, razor clams, anchovies, octopus – being scorched on the huge hotplate