Germany doesn't have one big Spanish restaurant scene the way London does. It has a spread of them: our directory lists 17 Spanish restaurants in 15 German cities, and most of them are one-off, owner-run places far from Berlin. This guide goes region by region and sticks to what each venue's own record says.
Hamburg, Bremen and Oldenburg
Portomarin on Dorotheenstraße in Hamburg is the only venue in this guide whose record gives an opening date: 2000. It opened to promote Spanish cooking in Germany using quality products. The kitchen is general Spanish with some regional specialities, and the restaurant has appeared in national guides and magazines including Der Feinschmecker and the Michelin Guide. It sits in one of the higher price bands in the German listings.
Further west, Muchos Más runs two restaurants: Muchos Más Bremen on Am Wall and Muchos Más Oldenburg on Heiligengeistwall. Almost the whole menu is traditional Spanish recipes, with dish names printed in Spanish and German and descriptions in German. The main menu changes once a year, and a separate tapas-of-the-month list changes every month. Both are in the lowest price band.
Berlin
Berlin has two listings, and they are quite different.
Bar Raval is in the Wrangelkiez part of Kreuzberg, on Lübbener Straße. It's known for its tapas and pours wines from many Spanish regions. The menu changes through the year with the seasons.
El Colmado near Alexanderplatz, on Rathausstraße, is a wine and tapas bar with a small shop selling Spanish products. Part of every purchase goes to the charity Mary's Meals.
Düsseldorf, Bonn and Erfurt
Secreto Tapas y Vino is in Düsseldorf's Pempelfort district. Its menu mixes traditional Basque cooking with modern Catalan dishes, and it caters for vegetarians and vegans as well as seafood eaters.
El Patio in Bonn is a family restaurant run by owners from Salamanca, so the menu carries many Castilian specialities alongside dishes from other regions. It has a wood-fired oven, which the kitchen uses for special dishes that aren't on the daily menu. Ask what's coming out of it.
In Erfurt, ESTIMA by Catalana on Allerheiligenstraße cooks modern, creative food from the Spanish-French Mediterranean with a focus on reinterpreted Catalan cuisine. It runs two sides: a tapas area whose menu changes every three weeks, and a fine-dining menu that changes every six weeks.
Nuremberg, Würzburg, Heidelberg and Stuttgart
La Finca de García Paellas in Nuremberg has one of the more unusual addresses in the directory: it sits inside an allotment garden association, the Kleingartenverein Fuchsloch, on Nicolaistraße. The cooking draws on recipes from all over Spain, with special attention to rice dishes from Valencia and Alicante. The dining room is furnished with wood and esparto-grass furniture made in Valencia, traditional ceramic bowls, vintage soda siphons and photographs of Alicante and the Valencian countryside. If you want paella or arroz a banda in Bavaria, start here, and read our guide to Spanish rice dishes first.
Mera Tapas in Würzburg, on the Juliuspromenade, cooks traditional recipes from across Spain with some Galician influence. The wine list is all Spanish, and so are the beers, plus a few liqueurs with Spanish protected designations.
Der Kleine Spanier in Heidelberg, on Obere Neckarstraße, makes all its dishes and desserts in-house and runs a weekly specials menu built on seasonal produce. It also has an online shop selling Spanish food and wine.
José y Josefina in Stuttgart is family-run, on Gutenbergstraße, and serves traditional Spanish cooking with a modern touch. The menu is entirely Spanish and changes twice a year. Its record notes a listing in the Gault&Millau guide for 2020.
Near Stuttgart, Águila in Asperg is a modern tapas bar focused on Catalan tapas, Spanish wine and cocktails.
Munich
La Tasca Flamenca on Mettinghstraße covers the classic tapas-bar range, from small plates to desserts. For drinks it has Spanish wines, sangria, cava and draught beer.
Also listed
Three more German venues are in the directory without a full profile yet: Tapas Bar Leon in Fürth, and Don Luis and El Hidalgo in Osnabrück. Their pages have addresses, but we don't have enough on record to describe the food.
How to use this list
- For a regional focus, go Catalan at ESTIMA or Águila, Castilian at El Patio, Valencian rice at La Finca de García, or Basque-meets-Catalan at Secreto.
- For a menu that changes often, ESTIMA's tapas list turns over every three weeks and Muchos Más runs a monthly tapas list.
- If you want to take something home, El Colmado and Der Kleine Spanier both sell Spanish products.
Browse every listing on our Germany page, or go straight to Berlin, Hamburg or Munich.
