La Rambla is known to be one of the best restaurant at the historic downtown of McMinnville. The restaurant is located near the West end of the 3rd Street. It offers variety of Spanish food, and it is quite different from the usual Mexican food that we have had. This restaurant was highly recommended to us by the inn keeper, and thus we decided to give it a try.
We drove to the historic downtown of McMinnville and parked the car at the parking structure on 5th Street. We walked to the restaurant and had a look at the menu on the door. While we were checking out the menu, a lady customer pushed the door open and told us we must try this place and the food is simply amazing. This has assured us that we need to give this a try.
We sat down at the table and looked at the menu again more carefully. We were a bit confused on what is being listed on the menu. It is very different from the type of menu that we have seen at a Mexican restaurant. It is a Spanish restaurant after all. It took us a while to decided what to order, and we decided to order 3 tapas dish. We ordered Empanadas, stuffed Piquillo Peppers, and Chili Shrimp.
Empanadas dish came quite fast. It is served with 3 pieces, that look like fried dumplings. It is stuffed with braised beef and other type of vegetables. There were also honey drizzled on top of it. The Piquillo Peppers are large red peppers stuffed with rice, chicken, and other vegetables. There were also sauces drizzled on top of it but we could not figure out what kind of sauce it is. The Chili Shrimp came with 4 pieces, with 2 pieces pair tangled together. The shrimp is quite tender and the chili spice is quite hot. Even after 5 minutes, we could still feel the hot spice burning on our tongues.
In general, this is quite an unique experience to us since we have never really had authentic Spanish food. It looked like the dishes that we ordered were just appetizers. We would say that this is an unique experience. One of the down side here is that the food here is quite expensive. Each tapas that we ordered was at least $13 per dish.
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