My friend told me to meet there at 20pm at Taktika Berri for dinner, but the restaurant is not open till 20:30pm. I thought that maybe he did not know. But in fact he had very good reason.
At 20 pm there were no people outside that restaurant, except me. Around 20:15pm, people started to line up outside the door. When they opened the door at 20:30pm, everyone rushed into the restaurant to get a good seat, like a flock of sardines. The restaurant is packed within 2 seconds.
Why do they need to do that? It is a traditional Basque restaurant place, which have both sit-down and bar area. They prepared lot of tapas with toothpick at the bar. You can pick whatever you want to eat and leave the toothpick on your plate. They will calculate how much you need to pay based on how many toothpicks you have. The concept is called pintxos, which is from basque, the owners are from san sebastian.
Simple concept and works very well. The food quality is very good. There are at least10 varieties. I love those salted fish with grilled pepper. The blood sausage (see pic top left) is also very good. The most impressive one is the cod fish (see 2nd pic top left). It was so tender that melt in my mouth. When the waiter brought out new plate of cod, they were picked up in few seconds.
We were lucky to get there early so we got a very good seat, right beside the bar. If not you have to stand eating or lean forward to get food when they are brought out. Act Fast!!! Or there will be no food left! And no one is too polite; it was like a food war!
My friend also told that it is ok to throw used napkins on the floor. Actually it is easier for them to clean, rather than left them on the bar. I was looking around and it is true. Everyone else is doing that!
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