La Bodega Tapas Bar

Licensed Tapas Bar

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Dance With Attitude

See Our Menu Below

(Pre-Theatre Men offers 20% off selected dishes Monday - Sunday 5pm - 6.30pm)

OPEN: Monday 4pm - 11pm

Tuesday - Wednesday 11.45am - 11pm

Thursday & Friday 11.45am - Midnight

Saturdays 11.30am - Midnight

Sundays - 12.30pm - 11pm

 

We pride ourselves in keeping a very relaxed atmosphere in our cafe. It's open to everyone which means we have a mixture of people just dropping in for a drink and a tapas as well as those attending classes who want to relax before and after class. Quite a lot of parents take the opportunity to relax while they wait for their kids doing class or come along to join friends after their class.

We hold regular performance nights in the cafe and various monthly events such as jewellery & craft fayres an Open Mic Nights (see below for more details)

We have free Wi-Fi, great music and always something entertaining going on whether it's a Dance Performance or people rehearsing for shows and of course a delicious menu with Spanish home cooking and speciality dishes from all around the world. You can have tapas or a full meal and the dishes can vary from Tortilla Espanola (Spanish Omelette) to Chicken & Chorizo to Spinach & Feta Pie. We have a specials board which adds to the variety of dishes on offer. SEE OUR MENU BELOW.

Events @ LA BODEGA.....

DATE	EVENT	TIME
Every Thursday	Tango Libre - Tango Salon in La Bodega with Classes upstairs in the studios from 8.15pm	From 7.30pm Free Entry
Every Friday	Salsa Sabrosa - Great Salsa night in La Bodega (with a salsa class @ 8pm in studio 2) with delicious Tapas on the go all evening!	from 7.00pm Free Entry
Every Sunday	Live Music/Jam Every Sunday with our Resident Band	From 2.30pm Free entry
Saturday 5th March 2011	Jewellery Fair in La Bodega 11.30-4.30pm	Free Entry
Saturday 19th March	Kids Showcase 4.6pm	TBC
Saturday 26th March	World Rhythms Showcase	£6.50/£5.50 on the door OR £5 Advance Price

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Bodega Tapas Bar

Dance With Attitude Studios, 1120 South Street G14 0AP

0141 581 3401

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Check out the fabulous review below that we got from Ron Mackenna in the Herald .......

Review of La Bodega

Ron Mackenna
8 out of 10
A little of what you fancy

Review published on 21/06/2010 © Sunday Herald

Sometimes Glasgow seems so small and dull. Then one day I'm on the dreary Clydeside - not the Byres Road bit. Further on, past Partick, past Whiteinch, driving by scrapyards, garages, low-rise, low-rent industry, and suddenly there are tables beside the road with umbrellas like flowers.

Inside there are handwritten signs, a big shaggy dog wandering about, a burst ball under a sound system, a stage at the bottom of the room, for Gawd's sake, and the higglediest-pigglediest collection of tables and chairs I've ever seen.

I'm looking at the bare plaster walls and the big unfinished bar facing the door, trying to find a sign - a poster, maybe even a painting or some piece of touristy tat - to indicate that, senors and senoritas, this is indeed a Spanish tapas restaurant.

There's absolutely nothing here. In fact, it's a bit of a mess. But somehow... as the light floods in the low windows and through the open door while I spoon a salad of chunky tomatoes and cucumber dripping, as it should, in a seasoned oily, vinegary dressing on to my plate and slice into tender grilled chicken fillets deliciously marinated in rosemary, it feels like I'm in a roadside village bar in Spain. In Glasgow.

I'll go further and say that already I'm feeling there's something indefinably right about this place. Something genuine. Is it just the light? Maybe. It's a beautiful day, warm and bright. Yes, I can see the bus depot across the road; yes, there's a scrap merchant next door; and yes, trucks are rumbling by, but it's another world, far removed from the tapas restaurants run by Scots, Italian restaurants run by Indians, Irish bars run by industries, and the whole spend-a-fortune-on-the-theme-forget-about-the-food craze that is beginning to overwhelm the city just down the road.

On the menu are pepitos, baguettes with marinated beef, and bocadillos - baguettes stuffed with Spanish omelette or chicken and herbs. On the table there's a bowl of small, wrinkly-skinned potatoes with deliciously fresh and spikey made-in-here dips of coriander, cumin, garlic and roasted red pepper. Beside that a dish of boquerones frites, the deep-fried whitebait I watched being floured through the kitchen door a few moments ago, and another bowl of squid rings in a light and crispy batter.

Best of all? A few moments ago a whole freshly made tortilla arrived, still steaming from the frying pan, squat, fat, bursting with dry floury potato and crisp onion, seasoned with just enough salt and pepper and completely impossible to stop eating. Even though I have already stuffed my fat face.

Is it all good? Well, the chicken heaven - a stew of peppers and chicken billed as originating in Granada and flavoured with mango - was wet, ordinary and dull, but, in the same way we haven't a clue how to make a salad in this country, I've yet to eat a stew from a hot country that was any good.

And the service is good. The chef cum waiter cum owner (I presume that's what he is anyway) comes from the Canary Islands, he tells me, and is a decent guy. He has been back and forward with dishes and apologised for having no spinach and feta pie, and for still being in the process of preparing today's Russian salad that I really wanted to try. He also has a slightly alarming habit of bowing as he leaves the dishes, but we'll not hold that against him.

I said I liked this place as soon as I started eating and I like it even more now I've worked my way through the menu and heard the bang, bang, bang of flavours popping in my mouth. It is simple and messy but unquestionably atmospheric. Of course there are better tapas bars in Spain, but there certainly aren't in Glasgow.