Review:

Mompou Tapas Wine Bar and Lounge is hip and trendy, and it’s busy even on weekday nights. It’s a great place to go for real Spanish tapas. Today, so many people are serving tapas that we sometimes forget how real tapas should taste. And what you get at Mompou is not your run-of-the-mill traditional tapas. Their tapas are quirky and innovative and delicious. Try Tortilla Herminia, a local favorite. It is made with potatoes, spinach, and onions, and it is smothered with cream sauce made from Cabrales blue cheese.

The excellent food and the lovely ambience of the restaurant with its exposed brick walls and copper ceilings create a dynamite dining experience. There are eight beers on tap from the best microbreweries, 30 kinds of bottled beer, and 100 kinds of wine, with some really fine vintages from Spain. Their sangria is also very good. On some nights, you can enjoy live music.

77 Ferry Street, Newark, New Jersey, Phone: 973-578-8114

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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