La Bodega Tapas Bar
Licensed Tapas Bar
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Dance With Attitude
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.
Events @ LA BODEGA.....
| DATE | EVENT | TIME |
| 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 6.30pm |
Sunday 18th July 2020 |
Open Mike / Jam A chance to enjoy some live music or to show your musical skills. If you want to take part please call Alexis by the Friday before to organise a running order. |
7pm - 11pm |
La Bodega Tapas Bar
Dance With Attitude Studios, 1120 South Street G14 0AP
0141 581 3401
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Dance With Attitude Studios
1120 South Street
Glasgow G14 0AP
0141 581 3401
dancewithattitude@btinternet.com
Ballroom Belly dance Break dance Contemporary Flamenco Jive Lockin & Poppin (Bodypopping) Streetfusion Streetdance (Mondays) Streetjazz Streetdance (Wednesdays & Thursdays) Salsa Tango (Argentine) Tap (Street Style) Private Lessons (wedding dances etc) Summer course for kids
Check out the fabulous review below that we got from Ron Mackenna in the Herald .......
Check out the fabulous review below that we got from Ron Mackenna in the Herald .......
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.
