Bolero’s Spanish Grill Tapas

Looking for a restaurant for our third and last dinner in Regensburg we stood before the Hackerbräu Inn and studied the menu in the curtain. Good-bourgeois, defensive home cooking, but we weren't really excited, because we had the last night in the fat man. And the “Bolero” came into our field of vision. Spanish? Mexican? So, over the street and see it... the head of the house, Claudio Alexe, just got out, we got into the conversation and he led us into the restaurant only open from 18:00 because we wanted to take a look at the restaurant and the menu. He liked it. On the left side of the entrance there is the working counter whose cooling part contains small objects but is not yet filled. The guest room on the right side surprises with its ambience immensely! Nothing remembers a Spanish restaurant, nowhere a torero or a flamenco dancer, the walls without pictures. A long table row with two tables in front of each wall, past padded wooden benches along the walls. The large mirrors on the end face optically extend the space. This "length" is interrupted by the square light strips on the brick walls, which were reworked under several layers in the original core renovation of these rooms. The chic lamps over the tables radiate into something orange tone, which unfortunately does not appear on the photo. The furniture concept came from his wife, he said proudly. Gels! A look into the menu showed that some of my favorite patients such as Gambas al ajillo, Boquerones en vinagre, Albondigas and the Pimientos de Padrones were not included. The boss showed us pictures of a series of tapas that looked really good. Known ingredients, new and different arranged. That was a big attraction, so we reserved a table for 6:00. We were there in time, took place at our reserved table and got the menu immediately handed over. A rather extensive tapas offer awaited us, but no other specialties such as paella, meat and fish dishes. I no longer mention my beverage selection at the price of 4.10 €! We chose five different tapas. Tortilla Boleros (3,90 € homemade tortilla with Salsa Brava potatoes kept in egg were well spiced and juicy and in combination with the piquant-spiquant Salsa Brava very delicious. Ensalada de mariscos (6,80 € seafood salad From the good mix of baby locus, mussels, shrimps and Calamari in small pieces was not like rubber, too dry or too hard. Pray on a thin layer of avocado mousse, doubled by thin parmesan cracker and shoved rocket, which censored all tapas. Pincho con vieiras (5,80 € with avocado mousse and roasted crispy shells and flavoured with garlic and rosemary. The slightly sweet meat of the Jacobsmuschelnus was buttersweet and was easy to share with the fork. The delicate, nutty avocado mousse, dressed on a dark baguette disc, was very well tasted and along with the high quality Balsamico creams the flavors were wonderfully harmonized. Higado de pollo (3,90 € Piedge chicken liver spear in bacon I am not necessarily a friend of chicken livers, on request of my girlfriend she was chosen. But that was really not a bad choice! Cooked to the point, picantly seasoned, but not too sharp, packed with a sharply fried bacon disc, everything fits! Patatas bravas (3,50 € homemade potato corners with spicy Bravas Sugo and Aioli rich potato corners with spicy Salsa Brava, which was sharp enough, the Aioli had made a little more garlic well. Crema Catalana (4,50 €) This famous Spanish dessert with sugar crust disappointed us. Tastefully good, it was just too strong from consistency. At the boss he said it was adapted to the taste of his guests. Insider head shakes! In the end, I would have liked to have enjoyed a “Carajillo” and ordered him with the young woman who, however, saw me very surprised because she could not start with it. She called the boss to the table that was just as surprised he never heard. I told him that every Spaniard really knows this espresso with hot brandy and drinks at any time of day, often even after breakfast. Despite his Spanish name, he was not a Spaniard, but a Romanian. But he wanted to deal with the carajillo. That's it! Conclusion: The ambience impressed us, the food also for the Crema Catalana, we felt comfortable!