La Puntilla: the best Tapas in Nerja?

A few months ago we asked people on one of the Nerja expat pages “what’s the best Tapas place in Nerja?”

La Puntilla received the most responses.

We’ve tried to go to La Puntilla a few times but it was always jam-packed with no empty table (Note: The main part of La Puntilla is a restaurant section. The Bar section, where they serve tapas, is off to the left inside a separate building).

Yesterday we showed up at 7:30 and were the 1^st people there.

We finally got to try out the Tapas at La Puntilla.

La Puntilla – bar section where you go for Tapas

How it works: unlike many places where a bar will just serve you something with every drink, you actually get to choose your tapa at La Puntilla. They have a Tapas menu with 14 different Tapa choices on them. And you get a free tapa with every drink you order.

La Puntilla tapa menu — Tapas menu. They also have it in English but I forgot the take a photo. Rough translation of the above: **Pork filets**, **Pork morsels** (cooked Kebab style), **Manchego cheese**, **Chorizo sausage**, **Blood sausage**, **Grilled prawns**, **Pil-Pil prawns** (they’re actually shrimps), **Grilled Sea Bream**, **Grilled Mackerel**, **Mussel**, **Grilled Cod**, **Fish brochette,** **Grilled Rosada** (a white fish in Hake family), **Tapa of the Day** (which on this day was a calamari stuffed with sardines).

A few photos:

La Puntilla: the best Tapas in Nerja? — Gambas al Pil-Pil (Pil-Pil shrimps)

We had 8 drinks combined between the two of us, so we had the 8 drinks/8 tapas that you see above. Highlights? The Morcilla (blood sausage) was my favorite. The Bacalao (Cod) was Lissette’s favorite. But really, all were excellent.

And then we got the bill: