If
your mother ever said "you shouldn't play with your food" she
never
experienced the pleasure of tapas or thrilling your tastebuds and sharing
one
new flavor after another, of eating as much or as little as you want,
and, best
of all, of connecting with people in a festive way.
Dalí Restaurant and Tapas Bar is Boston's vanguard for innovative Spanish dining. Many of Boston's chefs sit in our bar and study our success. They go on to open their own great establishments featuring "tapas Americanas".
But
we have the real thing. . .come taste the origins.
Mario Leon and I (Tamara Bourso) met in 1985. When he put his foot in
front of me I fell, in many ways, willingly and completely. He bent over
and picked me up and love
wonderfully condemned us both. His dream was to go to the Ramblas in Barcelona
and shine shoes (I don't know why) - mine was to dress up, work only on
Saturdays and
drink never-ending champagne surrounded by flowers and soft lights. By
this time, Mario's idea of an authenic Spanish restaurant and tapas bar
had been bottled and aged enough.
It
was time for us to take the plunge. The Ramblas would have to wait! We
began with lots of determination and no money: Mario - the brains and
the spirit; Cesar - a dear and
loyal friend; Pedro - a carpenter and animal psychic; and I - a frustrated
artist with Russian angst.
