Tapas in Fredericksburg

Saturday we went to Charlottesville to visit with our son’s fiancé to look at wedding dresses.  While there we stopped and had a lunch of Cuban sandwiches and select beer.  Although I am sure most of you would rather hear about this meal, I am going to surprise you with the light dinner we had on the way home.  We stopped at Kybeca in Fredericksburg (a small wine shop/restaurant) which specializes in appetizers (or Tappas for you Spanish fans).  Before you say it, I know if you say you are going to a Tappas restaurant fast enough it is certainly a disappointment when you actually get there but Kybeca has food that is almost an offset for this let down.

Anyway, when we got to Kybeca we were excited to find they had a special that included lamb sliders.  We also ordered roasted spicy humus and a grilled squash with a romanesque sauce.  This was all paired with a 2008 Spanish Tempranillo from Volver.  This turned out to be a delicious wine (full bodied and plenty of fruit) and made for an excellent paring with the Tappas.  Just as a note, we have found that it seems to work better when you pair wine from the same region as your meal … I guess decades if not centuries of experience on the part of the people living in an area are worth something.

We finished off the meal with a version of Smores that Kybeca makes.  Although this was good, we both felt it could do with more chocolate and less marshmallows.   All things considered, we had a good time sitting on the streets of Fredericksburg, eating snacks, drinking good wine, and watching the people walk by … the chocolate was just an extra.