Top That! Tango’s Tapas Turns Ten (Photo Gallery)

If you haven’t been in recently, or have been waiting for someone to offer you their chocolate dessert named El Diablo, you’re in luck. Throughout April, Tango has a full slate of special events in celebration of turning ten years old. The party begins April 1, with free El Diablos, and continues $5 pairings of El Diablos and specialty tequilas, live tango, extended happy hours, and participation in the meal deals of Seattle Restaurant Week.

To get out the word on Tango turning ten, Travis Rosenthal had a swarm of food writers down to the corner of Boren and Pike this week to preview the cause for celebration. Rosenthal’s owned Tango since 2006–he originally arrived in Seattle to help open Pacific Place’s Il Fornaio, and was general manager at the U Village’s popular Piatti, until making the leap to Tango’s Latin American and Spanish small plates.

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Rosenthal and his executive chef Michael Bruno were confident enough in their offerings that they opened the whole menu for review (see the photo gallery above). Missteps were few and far between, and I began asking myself more and more stridently why it had taken me ten years to darken their door. To read the reviews, everyone else clued in long ago. The candlelit ambiance draws everyone from canoodling couples and Paramount showgoers, to carafe-quaffing tables of ya-ya sisterhoods.