Tres Gatos
Tapas restaurant · Jamaica Plain
470 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Highlights
Spanish tapas & wine bar with a record & bookstore
Spanish tapas & wine bar with a record & bookstore
"This cozy Spanish tapas spot serves imaginative small plates and paella on the first floor of a former single-family home in Jamaica Plain. In the summer, the front patio is surrounded by flowers and makes for a perfect romance-fueled date night; in the winter, cozy up at the bar. After dinner, peruse the adjoining record shop and bookstore to find the perfect soundtrack for the rest of the evening." - Celina Colby
"This is one of the most interesting restaurants in the city’s most interesting neighborhood. If you’re tired of planning out your conversation topics before your dates, come to this JP tapas spot that’s part-bookstore, part-record store, and part-living room of the chef-friend you don’t have. Hit up the patio if it’s nice out, the slope-side cabin of a dining room when it’s not, and always order the stuffed dates." - lala thaddeus, joel ang, dan secatore, tanya edwards
"Offers a merch series of cheeky cat shirts, totes, and hats designed by a staffer and local artist @cassidy.dotcom; the designs feature cocktail-wielding cats that read books, dance, and generally live their best lives — 'Energy to aspire to.'" - Celina Colby
"Tres Gatos doesn’t have the best food of the restaurants on this list. While there are a few dishes at this tapas place that we love, there are just as many that don’t really hit their mark (the patatas bravas). And yet, it’s the first place we take people to when we want to show them JP, because it’s a tiny little cabin that is equal parts restaurant, bookstore, and record store where everyone’s always having fun. The cocktails are great, and drinking them on the shaded patio overlooking Centre Street is a perfect way to spend a warm night." - dan secatore
"You’ll have plenty of things to catch each other up on, but when you don’t actually know if you have anything in common with the person you’re going to dinner with, you need a restaurant that comes with ready-made conversation topics. Tres Gatos in JP is a tapas restaurant that’s also a bookstore and a record store. Split the chickpea fritters and some paella mixta and talk about whatever’s playing if you’ve already run out of family gossip." - dan secatore
