Toro (CLOSED)

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A bar-restaurant where you can get a bit of Spanish sun by dancing to live Andulasian flamenco while you wait for your tapas order, in a convivial atmosphere with an original menu. As well as tapas, there’s delicious paella with black rice or an Iberian hamburger with touron (nougat) from Alicante, accompanied by a good bottle of Rioja and iced jijonas sweets. During the evening, the Toro opens its basement for amazing DJ sets of electro-Latino and flamenco. A small downer is that the service is pretty disorganised: you’ll wait a while, most of all for big parties. But the food is good enough that you’ll forgive the inefficiency, and the sting of the bill.