La Ruta de la Tapa de El Puerto sells 9,560 portions

The 4th Tapas Route "Muerde el otoño" sold 9,560 tapas at the nineteen establishments that took part, from Wednesday, November 4 to Sunday, November 8, in El Puerto de Santa María. The figure far exceeds the 3,500 tapas sold in the previous edition, which was affected by the rain, according to the Asociación de Hosteleros y Empresarios del Casco Histórico (AHECO), organizer of the initiative. Each establishment presented a tapa created expressly for the Route. The public was able to vote for their favorite by means of ballots, of which 524 were collected, according to the president of AHECO, José Antonio Paguillo. The jury, made up of the communicator Hugo Paz, the hospitality professor Antonio Orozco and the gastronomic communicator Charo Barrios, awarded three prizes. The innovation prize went to the restaurant La Bodeguilla del Bar Jamón, for the tapa "Habano de carrillada". The creativity prize and the public prize, decided by popular vote, both went to the establishment A priori, for its tapa "Falseta de otoño". The flavor prize went to La Pescadería, for its torta de Inés Rosales with torrezno de Soria, burrata, walnuts and pesto. Among the 524 ballots deposited by the public, a draw for 500 euros was also held, which went to María Soledad Ybarra Sal. The deputy mayor of Hostelería, David Calleja, and the councilor of Turismo, Olga de Navas, presided over the prize ceremony, at an event organized by AHECO with municipal collaboration.