. We would like to thank everybody that supported us for the last almost 10 years.
This picture was taken that evening, after closing...
...and this is how it looks now:
La Tasca Reading Team
Friday 28 September 2012
La Tasca Reading - Closed for Business... :(
On Wednesday, 26.09.2012, La Tasca Reading opened its doors for our guests for the last time .
We would like to thank everybody that supported us for the last almost 10 years.
This picture was taken that evening, after closing...
...and this is how it looks now:
La Tasca Reading Team
. We would like to thank everybody that supported us for the last almost 10 years.
This picture was taken that evening, after closing...
...and this is how it looks now:
La Tasca Reading Team
Sunday 2 September 2012
Charity Parachute Jump – His Way of Saying “Thank You!”
Osbein Valenzuela Carrillo, one of the waiters at La Tasca Reading, decided to get involved. And this is not by chance.
Ozzy (how we call him), will leave England soon. FOR GOOD!
He has been living in Reading, Berkshire for the last several years. He met wonderful people here, he made life-time friends and he has great memories.
But he thought he cannot just leave... he has to give something back… as a “Thank you!”.
That is why he decided to do a charity parachute jump, to support NHS Duchess of Kent House (hospice) in Reading.
Osbein Valenzuela Carrillo (Ozzy)
The unit treats adult patients with cancer and other life-shortening diseases, at no charge according to need. The hospice provides out-patient, in-patient and day therapy services, which includes respite care and symptom control.
The jump will take place on 30th September 2012 in Swindon.
If you would like to encourage Ozzy, please use the comment box below.
If you want to support the jump (he has to pay £370.00 to be allowed to do the jump – all the money goes to charity), we prepared a special box at La Tasca Reading for him.
You can also send donations into his personal bank account:
Bank: Lloyds TSB
Name: Mr. O. Valenzuela Carrillo
Account no.: 20952268
I will keep you updated.
Jump Ozzy, jump!...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Classic Sinatra Evening
About 2 weeks ago we've had a special Classic Sinatra live music night at La Tasca Reading. Our guest was Ian Gallagher, leading Sinatra impersonator.
To be perfectly honest, I was somehow nervous about that, especially after a nice American couple booked a table for that evening. They told me, when they made the booking, they were huge Sinatra fans and they had also seen him live a few times and also a few impersonators in US.
The day of the event came and the music started flowing. Ian showed up from a staircase, in tuxedo and hat. From the first couple of minutes, he absolutely won everybody over.
A wonderful voice, topped with an exceptional interaction with the audience, turned the evening into a very successful night for. Everybody was smiling and singing along, customers, members of staff, even next door neighbours, curious to see what was going on.
Songs like My Way and New York, New York even lifted the customers off their seats…
It has been one of those nights when everything just turned out right: the food came right in time, the Sangria was pouring, the entertainment was flawless.
It has really been a magical night. The customers left unanimously incredibly positive feedback.
The nice American couple told me before they left that was the best performance they’d seen, except of course of Sinatra’s himself.
I really hope that we’ll have the opportunity to do this again sometime soon. Many of our regular customers, that were on holidays at that time, when they heard about the event and saw the footage that we recorded, asked us to book another evening.
So I’ve started spreading the news, as the song says… :)
Wednesday 29 August 2012
La Tomatina - The Annual Spanish Tomato Fight
Every year, on the last Wednesday of August, an unusual event takes place in the Valencian town of Bunol, Spain. We are talking about the biggest food fight in the world, where participants are throwing tomatoes at each other… just for fun.
It looks like everything started in 1945 when a fight started in the Plaza del Pueblo between two groups of young men. The only “weapons” they used were the tomatoes they could find on a stand nearby. The police had to interfere to calm the spirits down.
As a recollection of this event, a new fight was organized next year and so on for the years that followed.
Today, almost 50,000 men are coming from all over the world to take part in this event and 200,000 tomatoes are thrown at each other.
There are some rules to be followed, as well:
- - In order to avoid injuries, the tomatoes have to be squashed
- - No other projectiles are allowed
- - The participants have to give way to the lories and trucks
- - The fight has to start / finish when the signal is given.
The fight lasts for exactly one hour.
They must have a lot of fun… :)
Wednesday 1 August 2012
Spanish Tapas - A Bit of History…
When we say “tapas” we say “Spain”. But what its meaning is and how it got to be the symbol of the Spanish cuisine, we are about to find out.
“Tapas” comes from the Spanish verb “tapar” (to cover) and it can be translated as “cover” or “lid”.
The story says it all started with the king Alfonso the 10th of Castile that managed to recover from an illness by having small bites of food with some wine between meals. Shortly after, he asked all the bartenders in the area to serve food with the drinks, in order to avoid diseases.
A more credible version would be the one saying that, at one point, the bartenders of the Andalusian taverns started covering the glasses of wine and cherry with slices of bread, to keep away the flies, in the torrid summer days.
After a while, they started adding olives, ham and cheese on top. All these, being salty, provoke and maintain a sensation of thirst. The more drinks sold, the bigger the profit.
Over time, these “tapas” evolved from snacks to the proper dishes that we know today.
Well… at least that is what we believe :).
Chris
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