Bar Esteban

Bar Esteban brings sunny Spanish charm to Crouch End, North London, we serve top-quality tapas, using the best available ingredients, accompanied by a variety of Spanish wines and sherries. Daily specials often bring a contemporary twist or a traditional favourite to the menu. Co-owners Stephen Lironi and Lisa Woolley and Head Chef Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez (previously of Barafina and Moro) have created a gastronomic destination that blends the warmth of Barcelona with Brooklyn cool. Booking advised.

bar esteban : serving tapas that gets written about

Bringing sunny Spanish charm to Crouch End, Bar Esteban blends the warmth and energy of Barcelona with edgy Brooklyn cool.

We serve top quality tapas, using the best available ingredients accompanied by a specially selected range of Spanish wine and sherry.

While our main menu focuses on traditional tapas, you will find that some of our daily specials have a more contemporay twist and we are always happy to help create an individual menu for a special occasion.

To make a reservation please book directly, we can accommodate bookings of up to 14 people and for parties larger than 6 people please send an email to [email protected] or phone .

During the evening it is not always possible for us to answer the phone but we always keep some space free for walk-ins.

http://www.baresteban.com

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London tapas bar customers use stools to fight off raider | Daily Mail ...

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This is the incredible moment a hammer-wielding moped thief was fought off by a hero manager and customers in a London Tapas restaurant.

The attack was captured on CCTV as the thug, wearing a helmet, tried to steal a laptop off the counter at Bar Esteban in Park Road, Crouch End, north London.

Islington police have promised to erect signs warning of moped crime in north London where moped gangs are particularly active.

Police are hunting the two moped invaders who struck Bar Esteban.

A Met Police spokesman said: 'Two suspects entered the premises in Park Road and grabbed a laptop from a table.

Bar Esteban, restaurant review: It's Brooklyn meets Barcelona in north

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bar esteban : serving tapas that gets written about

Bringing sunny Spanish charm to Crouch End, Bar Esteban blends the warmth and energy of Barcelona with edgy Brooklyn cool.

We serve top quality tapas, using the best available ingredients accompanied by a specially selected range of Spanish wine and sherry.

While our main menu focuses on traditional tapas, you will find that some of our daily specials have a more contemporay twist and we are always happy to help create an individual menu for a special occasion.

To make a reservation please book directly, we can accommodate bookings of up to 14 people and for parties larger than 6 people please send an email to [email protected] or phone .

During the evening it is not always possible for us to answer the phone but we always keep some space free for walk-ins.

Bar Esteban, 29 Park Road, Tottenham, London, N8 8TE - Spanish ...

Escocesa, London N16: 'Some fine Scottish seafood, in a Spanish ...

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Fifteen years ago in the Hollywood Hills, then record producer Stephen Lironi (also ex-Altered Images and still Mr Clare Grogan) was reading an article in this very paper, bemoaning that there was no local market for Scotland’s more esoteric shellfish and seafood.

The place looks fantastic: bar stools fringe an open kitchen at the front, all the better to ogle bustling chefs and sparkling seafood on ice – scallops, silvery sardines, tuna to be served “a la Bilbaina” with tomatoes, garlic and sherry, and, yes, langoustines; and at the back – yippee!

This isn’t where to come for reinvention of any Spanish wheels: it’s a fleecy comfort blanket of familiar dishes – croquetas, patatas bravas, tortilla, boards of fine, silky lomo, chorizo and pepper-studded salsichon served with crisp little picos de pan.

Quail from the specials board comes with chunks of carrot and caramelised oranges – the scent of fine sherry imbues many of the dishes.

Some fine Scottish seafood, in a Spanish restaurant, in Stokey.

Bar Esteban | Restaurants in Crouch End, London

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An old test-your-strength machine is only the best of the eclectic and slightly cranky accoutrements that combine with vaguely distressed decor at this imaginative tapas bar.

Lately, some London tapas bars have been showing culinary inventiveness; so far, Bar Esteban isn’t so much creative as focused on pure, contrasting, pick-me-up flavours based on top-quality fresh ingredients.

We were won over straight away by the superbly authentic, punchy and fresh alioli (garlic mayonnaise) that came with our bread.

The pleasure continued with subtly seasoned grilled mussels, crisp and creamy serrano ham croquettes, vibrantly delicious coca de escalivada (flat bread topped with roast peppers, onion and aubergines), and rabo de toro (slow-braised oxtail) with a richly textured flavour that really showed the worth of painstaking, skilful preparation.

Bar Esteban is a great asset to Crouch End.

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