Friday evening and Knot’s weather forecast for the weekend was right: Saturday not so nice, Sunday brilliant! Some days before I had picked up in London a leaflet about a festival: The Rioja will come to London!
Rioja and Tapas at the Tower
Well, I had discovered some months ago a really nice white Rioja in one of my favourites restaurant in Bermondsey Street. So I thought, let’s see if the Rioja would be there!
Knot was right! After a day at we started from to Tower Bridge around midday. Just on the side of the major’s house an area for the party goers were put around with fences and white plastics stitched to that. Inside it was already quite full: A lot of young people, a nice but loud Spanish music and in the middle and around the festival where Rioja and tapas stalls mixed.
We went on a search for that Rioja from the Restaurant. But after a round of cheap but really too small sips of Rioja our faces went down. This is really the best withe Rioja Spanish vineyards can produce? No way! Two Rioja were decent: On bottle for 15 Pound and another on for 14 Pound. The last one was quicker to taste nice bloomy and the oak was decent, where the first one tasted more after oak and like a dark red Rioja, where a great cellarmaster with a trick pur the colour out. We decided for the second one and retreated to the fences.
Both of us, but mostly me took the job to get the tapas. The scampi were fresh and tasty for hers and garlic and lemon and the Manchego was perfect as well. The rest was so “lala”. Like always in London now: It is rather difficult to find some nice and good food, nothing special but just right for a brunch, a dinner or having a quite eating at home. Save everyone the cosy restaurants and the perfect but really expensive shops in London which all of us will find if we really lock out.
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