A note on the words: a bar in the Spanish sense is a casual place for drinks and small plates, which is what this shop is named after, and tapas are those small plates. Pan con tomate is bread rubbed with tomato, salmorejo is a thick cold tomato soup from southern Spain, and aioli is a garlic sauce. Iberico ham is cured ham from the Iberian pig. All-you-can-drink here means nomihodai, the fixed-price drinking window that Japanese restaurants attach to a set course, usually only for groups. Nakameguro is a canal-side district in Tokyo. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
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Right, this is Hangover Meshi. Dinner this time is at Bar Portillo, a Spanish place in Nakameguro. It sits a fair way back from the station, so there is a bit of a walk^^ The further in you go the more stylish the buildings become, and in among that quietly in-the-know feeling there is this smart-looking shop^^ Open the door and you step down a level into the room.
Inside, too, it is a bar in the Spanish sense through and through^^ A very good feel to it.
Signature dishes, a main, and two rice dishes of your choice as well! The special course, recommended for parties: 5,700 yen
Tapas and paella course, with two rice dishes of your choice: 4,700 yen
[2 hours all-you-can-drink] Tapas and paella course, with two rice dishes of your choice (4 people or more): 7,000 yen
[2 hours all-you-can-drink] Signature dishes, a main, and two rice dishes of your choice as well! The special course, recommended for parties (4 people or more): 8,000 yen
Two courses, and with four people or more you can add all-you-can-drink.
There were four of us this time, so of course we took the drinks! The course was the special one, 8,000 yen with all-you-can-drink!
First, a highball, please (not wine, then? lol)
![[2 hours all-you-can-drink] Special course (4 people or more) (8,000 yen)](https://cimg.eat.hangover.work/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/17064253/IMG_4244.jpg "Bar Portillo, Nakameguro: Tapas Worth Photographing 7")
Cured ham from Iberico pigs raised on acorns. It comes to be eaten with pan con tomate!
Pile the ham on top, eat the two together, and it is seriously good! There is a generous amount of ham, enough that once the bread is gone you can still pick at what is left as a snack with your drink.
The six-kind tapas assortment! The dish it comes on has a handmade look, which is rather nice lol
For a while we sat picking at these and drinking.
A cold tomato soup called salmorejo comes with it, and the idea seems to be to dip.
The eggplant is crisp outside and fluffy within. Thanks to that tomato-based sauce — soup? — it eats cleanly for something deep-fried.
Cod and zucchini baked in the oven.
The way to eat it is with the garlic aioli.
They said we could choose braised beef or braised pork, and this, I think, is the braised beef.
The menu said steak, so perhaps the meat dish had been swapped out this time as well?
With the paella you pick any two you like.
The first — the photo is a little blurred lol — squid ink paella.
The second costs 880 yen extra, but we asked for the lobster paella, so here it is!
I got the joint of the arm lol The claw and the tail are the jackpot^^
Ice cream! You can apparently switch to cheesecake for 550 yen more, but this time I left it as the ice cream.
So — one way and another, we drank a fair amount. Plenty to drink, and as casual Spanish food goes this struck me as a good place you could use without ceremony. If anything, I suspect ordering what you like a la carte would satisfy more than taking the course, but 8,000 yen with all-you-can-drink! If you want to keep it reasonable, this is the way^^
Bar Portillo (Spanish / Nakameguro Station, Daikanyama Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.4
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
