About Tapas El Portal
Comment by Bravissima about Tapas El Portal:
Tapas El Portal is a charming restaurant located in the heart of Tossa de Mar, at Carrer Dels Pescadors, 2. Known for offering an exceptional dining experience, this place is the ideal destination to enjoy creative and delicious tapas in a cozy atmosphere.
Customers praise the friendly and professional service, highlighting the quality of the dishes, from ceviche to patatas bravas. Many agree that this is home to some of the best tapas on the Costa Brava, at very reasonable prices. Furthermore, the service has been described as 'amazing', with attentive staff that make visitors feel at home.
Among the highly recommended specialties are the tartar, lamb tacos, and bao buns, all beautifully presented. The sangria and background music have also received great acclaim, creating a perfect atmosphere for a romantic dinner or an evening with friends.
While some mention that the place can get quite busy, many agree that it is worth the wait to enjoy such an exceptional culinary experience. Without a doubt, Tapas El Portal is a must-visit in Tossa de Mar.
Opening hours
- Monday: 13:00–15:30, 19:30–23:00
- Tuesday: Cerrado
- Wednesday: Cerrado
- Thursday: 13:00–15:30, 19:30–23:00
- Friday: 13:00–15:30, 19:30–23:00
- Saturday: 13:00–15:30, 19:30–23:00
- Sunday: 13:00–15:30, 19:30–23:00
Tapas El Portal: Reviews
Fantastic experience: I highly recommend! (and will be back)
Fantastic experience: Very best place to enjoy your meals in Tossa ! Best Sangria we have drunk in Spain all along the coast for a reasonable price. Excellent service by the owner and waiter Saoul. We recommand this cosy place in Tossa. Best greetings from Amsterdam Willem, Maria and Samar.
Fantastic experience: Amazing service and food! We tasted many of their tapas and all were extremely good.
Fantastic experience: The best tapas in Tossa de Mar. Very elevated cuisine at very reasonable prices. Staff is friendly and excellent.
Fantastic experience:
Succulent
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Fantastic experience: A typical place for tourists but from a different fairy tale, authentic food, taste care and a great selection of wines.
Fantastic experience:
A great atypical tapas restaurant, a very nice welcome, an attentive team and a treat on the plate, for a very reasonable price. To do again...
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Fantastic experience:
A success. A magnificent romantic evening. Very good food, attention, and very honest price for the place. The background music is great, by the way. Highly recommended for dinner in Tossa.
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Fantastic experience: Great place with delicious food, wonderful and knowledgeable team, fun atmosphere and fantastic music - highly recommend!!!
Fantastic experience: One of the best restaurants we’ve been to in two weeks here. Amazing dishes and great flavour combinations. Staff were great. We ate here two nights in a row
Fantastic experience: I strongly recommend!!!
Fantastic experience: By far the best restaurant we visited in Tossa. Went there twice, and both times all the various dishes where wonderful. Delicious taste, and very lovely presented. Even a simple salad was a rich event. And all brought by a very friendly team
Fantastic experience: Amazing place, staff and food!!
Fantastic experience: The entrecôte is out of this world!
Fantastic experience: Descomunal! Unbelievable! Amazing blend of ingredients and mouthwatering food through and through. Staff is very friendly and knowledgeable on what chef(s) make. If dining as a pair, I highly recommend one or two tapas and a main dish for each person, followed by a dessert to share (the crema catalana de pistachio is excellent). Finish your meal with a “carajillo” (coffee + Baileys). Fab music as well. Very hip millennial place, not your traditional “Spanish” looking place. So recommend for people that are up to the challenge of something different.
Fantastic experience:
In Tossa de Mar, in the heart of the pedestrian center, the Portal Restaurant is a great option to eat some spectacular tapas. It shows a very worked and first level kitchen. The best Tartar I have ever eaten…, but it is not possible to highlight a single dish. Must visit?
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Fantastic experience: Amazing food and service!
Fantastic experience:
Charming restaurant, with a wide variety of dishes, good food and wine. Located in the old town. I recommend the lamb tacos and the ceviche. Very friendly and attentive workers.
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Fantastic experience: 2 words.. Bao Buns. Amazing! Also everything else was top as well! Highly reccomend. If you dont mind a short wait ( we waited 20 mins ) you can sit on the terrace and be spoilt for the night our order list was patatas bravas, gambas (to share) and bao buns.
Fantastic experience: Squid and pork cheek was an amazing dish.
Fantastic experience:
Delicious food
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Fantastic experience: Really great food. Hake Tempura were amazing. Best Ceviche I've ever tasted ... Here for 4 days... This is day 1.. Definitely be back for more before we leave... Highly Recommended .. Review Update!! .. Went back another 2 times and pretty much made our way thru the entire menu... By far the best and most interesting restaurant we visited in Tossa. The restaurant was constantly busy too, so we were not the only ones who loved this place. Really friendly staff and great service. 5 Stars!!!
Fantastic experience: Everything was fantastic - our favorite meal after 2 weeks in Spain! Great service, unique flavors and attention to detail. A must try.
Fantastic experience:
Excellent. The music, the sangria de cava, the ceviche, the artichokes, the mackerel, all spectacular! And the super friendly attention of all the staff, it shows that they make a good team! We will be back!
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Fantastic experience: Their food is excellent! I love every single dish that we ordered. You have to try the shrimps cooked with brandy, onions and oranges! And please eat the oranges with the shrimps!!!!
Fantastic experience: Really good food with a twist and friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Excellent tapas restaurant. Not the usual every day menu. Very good value for money. Worth the waiting if the place is full
Fantastic experience: Best Restaurant in Europe, so good went back twice
Fantastic experience: Amazing food, amazing staff, amazing location. Food was so good we almost cried. Will get back FOR SURE!
Fantastic experience:
A very good address, which offers excellent and refined tapas, and a chocolate ganache to die for and an adorable little rich waiter! Not to miss..
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Fantastic experience: Amazing Mediterranean restaurant packed with a lot of delicious surprises and friendly staff. If fish is your thing, then you won't be disappointed. Everything is thoughtfully planned and marvelously executed. One of the best dinners we've ever had. Highly recommended. If rate it 6 stars if that was possible
Fantastic experience:
One of the best restaurants I've ever been to.
Very rich and elaborate dishes.
Attentive and friendly staff.
Cozy environment.
Recommended 100%
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Fantastic experience:
Incredible experience, we tried 6 or 7 different dishes, we had it difficult to decide which of all was the best! Quality and very worked elaboration, incredible presentation, and very good quality/price ratio! And for me the best, the service, the unbeatable treatment, made us feel as if we were at home! Thank you very much!!!!
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Fantastic experience:
Restaurant serving tapas and daring dishes and giving them an interesting spin.
I think it's a great option in Tossa. And the service is great.
Very very good price quality.
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Fantastic experience:
They serve you with kindness and professionalism. The dishes are delicious. The place is quiet and comfortable. I recommend it without hesitation.
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Fantastic experience:
Great! The bravas, one of the best I tried, and the large and well-stuffed croquettes. To return and try more without a doubt!
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Fantastic experience: Top food, service and staff.
Fantastic experience: Friendly service, multilingual, good food
Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing food, such a great variety of dishes all beautifully presented. Excellent value for the quality of the food. Knowledgeable and friendly staff. A real gem. Would highly recommend.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely best in Tossa. Two days in a row, tried all tapas in the menu and all desserts, and it was like so totally awesome Fair price for such amazing taste and service.
Fantastic experience: Second time and still the same feeling, a must go!!!
Fantastic experience: Amazing food and service. Will come back
Fantastic experience:
Delicious contemporary tapas! Great service!
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Fantastic experience: 5 stars to service and food ❤
Fantastic experience: It was a great food n service
Fantastic experience: We were very surprised by the lovely and healthy dishes El Portal serves. If you are looking for local cuisine with a very contemporary ánd modern touch, you are at the right place. The food and wine tastes delicious, the staff is very friendly and professional and the decor is perfect.
Fantastic experience: Delicioso y a precios justos. It was amazing, the food is something out of this world. We loved it! We were also very surprised with the check because the prices are super fair. We will definitely come back
Fantastic experience: Wish I could give this place 6 stars. Everything was amazing - the service was fast and friendly, the location was on the most charming street. And of course most importantly, THE FOOD! This was the best meal we had on our 12 day Spain trip. Best patatas bravas ever. Don’t miss the lamb tacos. The ceviche and artichokes were also wonderful. Can’t wait to go back!
Fantastic experience: The best Spanish food
Fantastic experience: Delicious tapas, especially the mussels and the croquetas! The menu of the day was great value! The setting in the centre of Tossa was lovely and the staff were very friendly and attentive. We will definitely go back!
Fantastic experience: Delicious food, slightly off from the most crowded streets.
Fantastic experience: Exceptional. Beyond what you would expect in a tourist town. There seems to be a revolving tribe of foodies who eat here every night. If this place was in a big city you’d be lucky to get a reservation. Duck cannelloni. Tuna tacos. Beef cheek. Mussels. Lamb tacos. And the deserts are just as good.
Fantastic experience: Really loved the tapas at this place. Menu is not to big but just right. Would recommend to share some platters with your party to taste all the great flavours of this restaurant.
Fantastic experience: Wow, we had a delicious dinner in a perfect spot with a wonderful atmosphere! The food is fresh, tasty, homemade and the stuff is very friendly and relaxed. They have babychairs and baby’s are welcome. Highly recommended! It’s a tiny restaurant with voice of dishes. We had the tuna, mussels and parates braves.
Fantastic experience: As mentioned in many posts, great service and food in close location to castle and shops. Did I say shops! Your wives will love it! Highly recommended
Fantastic experience: Best in tossa.....like everyone says....Patata bravas is magic
Fantastic experience: What a wonderful night we had, they were very busy but we had a great time and a great meal, the tapas were good the octopus was perfect, the terrasse is confortable and the wine selection is good. Highly recommended good service good food in a great area.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic! In a town full of blah tourist food, this place is putting out quality dishes for great prices. Definitely try their take on Patatas Bravas, I love the Portal Arroz and I really appreciate their Spanish/Catalan cuisine with some modern twists that are oh so delicious. The daily Menú is high quality and affordable, we keep coming back when we visit Tossa!
Fantastic experience: Exellent food!!!!!Very friendly.
Fantastic experience: Good place for lunch ! Fresh seafood and interesting taste mixing !
Fantastic experience: New Italian Restaurant, acutally 2 cooks one Italian and the other mexican, for me the best in town for this year !
Fantastic experience: Best place in Tossa de Mar, amazing food, very friendly staff - I highly recommend
Fantastic experience: Awesome location paired with amazing food and great service ! The food is very delicious and we'll prepared.
Fantastic experience: ¡PERFECTO! Having been in the restaurant business my whole life I know what negative reviews can do to a business so I rarely post my feelings on establishments that are not up to par. But when l come to a gem like Portal I am ecstatic. This place hits it right on all cylinders and is honestly one of the best restaurants I have ever eaten at. The cuisine and service off the wall great. Do yourself a favor and pay them a visit i can promise you won't regret it!
Fantastic experience: Truly amazin food. Great ambiance with nice music in the background. Really good service. In other word i've spent a wonderful time there. Thank you !!!
Fantastic experience: Excellent service. Outstanding menu del Dia!
Fantastic experience: a gem of a restaurant in a town with wall-to-wall eateries. very fresh, creative dishes, super staff to advise you, quiet and small a few meters from the old town walls. highly recommended.