Appetizers vs Tapas - What's the difference?
appetizers | tapas |
Variety of Spanish small food items or snacks originally served with sherry.
* 1986 , , The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine :
Small food items generally.
As nouns the difference between appetizers and tapas
is that appetizers is plural of lang=en while tapas is variety of Spanish small food items or snacks originally served with sherry.tapas
English
Noun
(-)- The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass.
- Izakaya food is basically Japanese tapas.