tapas

• ir de tapas - to go around to the bars
• costumbre culunaria - culinary custom
• amantes del buen comer - lovers of good food
• negar - to negate, deny (refuse)
• vistosos - colourful, spectacular
• han sobrevivido - they have survived
• a través de los siglos - throughout the centuries
• aunque - although
• modalidades - modalities (forms/types)
• según - according to
• normas - norms (rules)
• tapeo - to eat tapas
• son compartidas - they are shared
• acudir en grupos - to go in groups
• pedir - to ask for
• comerlas con el resto - eat them with the rest (of the group)
• vinillo - diminuitive of vino, wine
• algrear el alma - to cheer up one's soul
• hablar sin parar - to talk non-stop
• parece que mostrar - to seem like something shows
• desprecio - scorn, contempt
• se da prioridad - priority is given
• gesto - gesture
• charla - chat
• se la debemos - we owe it to
• rey - king
• bajo sus ordenes - under his orders
• mensones - inns
• copas y jarras - cups and pitchers
• acompañadas con - together with
• pretendía - he/she pretended
• se empapara - it got soaked
• no subiese tan rápido a la cabeza - it didn't go to their heads, to get drunk
• asiduos - regulars
• tabernas - taverns
• evitando - avoiding
• peleas - fights
• alborotos - disturbances
• a pesar de - in spite of
• manjar - delicacy