La Tasca’s Unlimited In September

Every day from September 1 – 30, 2010, La Tasca Spanish Restaurant and Bar in Rockville Town Square is offering Unlimited Tapas:

$20 per person for lunch from 11:30 AM – 4 PM
$30 per person for dinner from 4 PM – closing

The menu includes 25 of their most popular and signature dishes, including vegetarian, meat, and seafood choices. The price is all-you-can-eat.

Since we were looking for a location for a Rockville Central dinner gathering, I decided to find out how much I actually could eat with friend, Annie Bolduc, who was enjoying a short staycation in Rockville. We tasted 13 tapas together and recommend several. We only made it through half the menu, so if you have some favorites to add, please let us know in comments.

• Empanadas de Carne is filled with minced beef with green pepper with a spicy, hot pepper sauce for an added kick.
• Esparagus Verdes is a burst of freshness which isn’t anything special until you squeeze the grilled lemon on top creating a different, full-bodied taste with the sea salt.
• Mejillones are messy mussels in a red marinara sauce made with slices of good, fresh vegetables. If you like to slurp, this sauce was delicious and we wished it could be added to other dishes.
• Salmon a la Piancha was perfectly cooked salmon in a green spinach sauce but the deep-fried mussels made it special. Since there were only a few, we savored the fried taste guilt-free.
• Patatas Bravas are fried potatoes which combine spicy with creamy. The red sauce gives some surprise heat.
• Ensalada Tomate are green, yellow and red tomatoes so fresh and crunchy you are immediately in the garden on a summer day. Although you could taste the herbs, the honey wasn’t recognizable in the vinaigrette.

If you are a vegetarian, there are enough dishes to keep you satisfied.

From our meal, we don’t recommend a couple of dishes. The shrimp in the Gambas Ajillo were chewy and even eating cloves of garlic with them didn’t make up for it. The pork in the Solomillo de Cerdo was on the hard side and overcooked.

A few other dishes were likable and certainly satisfying.

• The raisins and pine nuts mixed with spinach in the Espinacas Salteadas added subtle flavor.
• The lovely cabbage was the best part of the Brocheta de Pollo chicken and red pepper on a skewer.
• The Datiles with a bacon wrap and blue cheese was for someone who wants something different but definitely loves blue cheese.
• The Chorizo a la Parilla tastes like pepperoni or a dry salami stick.
• The seafood in the Paella Verduras were all smooth but mostly it was a rice dish.

At La Tasca the service is friendly. The restaurant is often packed and people truly enjoy the atmosphere by the fountain for the outdoor seating. La Tasca’s inviting interior with wood, color and fabric feels like you’re visiting a friend. With an extensive drink menu, people certainly enjoy the spirits. Since it opened, the restaurant has been a meeting place on the Square, a chance to visit Spain in Rockville.

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