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Just a Taste: Wine and Tapas Bar
Cuisine: Spanish Tapas
Tapas, or finger food in Spain, is small portions of food ideal for nibbling. In the States, a Tapas selection usually equates with lots of appetizer on a menu, but not at Just a Taste - here they serve Tapas with the intent to awaken your sense of taste by encouraging you to try many different flavors during a meal. The menu has a nice emphasis on local foods using West Haven, Stick and Stone, and Sabol Farms. Tapas, done in the Spanish tradition, made in a local kitchen with local food coupled with a dynamic wine list. But those are just words unless the food tastes good, and man does it ever; our favorites were the sauces on each dish, the sauces add the zing. The key with Tapas to extending the pleasure of the taste is to order bread with your meal as the bread allows you to dip and soak up the sauces long after the tapas is gone (the Housemade Focaccia could be the best in the state). Add a glass of wine from the ever changing wine list and you can dip, sip and repeat all night.

The Food: 5 out of 5

Warm Chocolate Souffle, moist, rich, and decadent; a real gem.

The Experience: 5 out of 5