Jose

Bones

So on saturday me & Daisy were on on our way to Maltby street market http://www.maltbystreet.com/, a really lovely food market in Bermondsey, when we got a little lost & ended up walking past a amazing looking tapas restaurant called Jose on Bermondsey st http://www.josepizarro.com/. Jose used to be chef partner at Brindisa. We had to try it out. Inside was a lovely, atmospheric & small restaurant which was packed. It was only 12pm & the only space to eat was to stand around a little barrel but we didn't mind!

Livers

We both started with a dry sherry, Jose is also a sherry bar, which was delicious & very muy seco (very dry) called Tio Pepe. We ordered squid with romesco sauce, an amazing dish where the squid was so tender, not chewy or rubbery at all & the romesco sauce complemented the squid amazingly. It consists of almonds/hazelnuts, paprika, tomatoes, olive oil, vinegar and garlic amongst other things & I have read it's from Cataluña. An amazing start. This was followed by 2 sardines which were excellently seasoned & served with sweet onions. Also excellent. Then we moved on to the meat dishes. Lamb albondigas which are meatballs was served in a spicy tomato sauce a little slice of fried toast, again amazing. Then the finale which was chicken livers cooked in sherry. I don't think I have tasted anything quite like it. Very tender, tasty, rich & then we dipped a bit of bread into the sherry sauce, absolutely mind blowing!

Instead of dessert I tried a sweet sherry called pedro ximenez el candado which did the job & was more than sweet enough followed by 2 espresso. I would say definitely that Jose was the best tapas restaurant I have been to in London. Not only was it deliciously amazing but the service was good, atmosphere was lovely & the bill was very reasonable, roughly £20 ahead & I forgot to mention the Alhambra beer I had. Definitely go back!