We've eaten here last year, but it really felt like we were being ripped off as tourists this year? 😡
We ordered one bottle of house wine, one sea food plato, and a gambas pill pill. Plus bread. The special board offered the plato items at €8.95 each. The food was okay, although the prawns were literally swimming in way too much oil.
We have had gambas pill pill from many restaurants before here, so we do have some knowledge to make a comparison.
The waitress couldn't speak much English but said our bill came to €41 plus euros, and said their machine was down, so couldn't print out our bill or receipt? 🤔 so couldn't see any costing?
It seemed pretty expensive for a back street tapas bar? They didn't even wrap our wine in a cooler either. We've had the same wine for far cheaper in better places.
Needles to day we left without leaving a tip!
We will not be returning, far nicer places to spend your money!

This is a traditional Spanish cafeteria selling some lovely tapas dishes. Inside, they have a glass canteen with tapas food (well worth taking a look to see what's available in ther), along with a menu for other dishes. We had the gambas pilpil and the chicken curry tapas. Both were really good and very tasty. The white Rudea wine was so good, we ordered a bottle, it came with a sleeve to keep cool while we ate. Service was also very good. Will definitely return for more.

My twin brother Stephen and I were pub and bar hopping around this area of Torremolinos when we decided to drop into La Tapateca and what another great visit we had.
A great looking tavern ,interior is big ,traditional and really pleasing on the eye ,a cool looking serving bar dominates the main room ,pubby decor and furnishings ,big screens to enjoy the sport and lots of seating options both inside and outside ,it's just a great tavern to chill out in .
We were here on a roasting hot early afternoon ,we grabbed a table were we ordered and were served a coffee each ,these were served steaming hot and from the first sip till the last sup you can tell they use quality ingredients in their coffee and take great pride in the coffee they serve ,hardly surprising this tavern is so popular with coffee of this quality.
We really enjoyed our coffee's in here before we moved on and as on every other visit to here we had a great time .
La Tapateca is easy to locate along Calle De Salvadore Allende.
Well worth checking out if you're in the area.

La Tapateca is a Spanish tapas restaurant and bar on C.Salvador Allende that offer a superb range of Spanish dishes and a very well priced drinks menu and was one of the many excellent pub's/bars and restaurants we visited in Torremolinos.
La Tapateca interior is excellent and has a traditional Spanish look and feel with many interesting features and a brilliant covered outside terrace and when we went here we sat outside as it was a roasting hot day.
We have visited La Tapateca several time's over the years and we've had tapas dishes in here before which are excellent.This time we only had a few drinks as we'd just had a meal an hour before.
When we visited here we had a few cups of coffee with milk which were very refreshing and well priced.La Tapateca is a fantastic tapas restaurant and bar and is well worth a visit if your in this area.(This is my second review of La Tapateca).
Opening Hours.
Monday-Sunday-07.30-00.00.

We have walked past here on a few occasions, and decided to give it a go as our apartment complex was only 2 doors away. Not much to look at from the outside but were greeted well by the host. We ordered of the tapas menu (4 for €12, but we had 8). What stunning food it was. Well cooked, well presented and at a price happy to the pocket. Will certainly be going back on our next trip out here