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Top 25 Tapas bars based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 182 tapas bars headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,728 professional contacts across them, including 92 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers tapas bars headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
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The 25 largest tapas bars based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “POLPO is a bàcaro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The home of Authentic Spanish food & Tapas in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We specialise in Tapas, the famous small dishes found in every bar in Spain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “This is the company page for El Gato Negro Tapas, an award-winning restaurant founded by chef patron Simon Shaw.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Barrafina is a highly awarded modern Spanish bar restaurant in London, serving the finest seasonal ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're a small, independent tapas restaurant with sites in York, Leeds and Hull.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Originally from a beautiful village, Talaván in Cáceres, Extremadura, José has now lived in London for over 20 years, and is often described as the Godfather of Spanish cooking in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tapa Tapa is Excel's favourite restaurant serving a selection of classic and modern tapas with an extensive selction of wines, beers and cocktails.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Theatrical restaurant serving the best wood-fired Spanish paella in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The aim at Porta is to keep things really simple.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded by Nieves Barragan and José Etura, Sabor (meaning flavour in Spanish) takes you on a journey from the tapas bars of Andalucía through to the asadors of Castile and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tast is the taste of Catalonia It’s a group of passionate people, led by Chef Paco Pérez and his amazing team, who have embarked on this adventure to share with you our love for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pulpo Negro is an award winning Tapas restaurant & bar on 28 BROAD STREET, Alresford, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “we are a family-run duo of tapas restaurants that take inspiration from Barcelona and beyond the idea for the restaurants originally sparked on a trip to Barcelona back in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bar Esteban brings sunny Spanish charm to Crouch End, North London, we serve top-quality tapas, using the best available ingredients, accompanied by a variety of Spanish wines and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1987, Meson Don Felipe was the first Tapas Bar in London and remains a little bit of Spain in Waterloo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Restaurant Andalucía is a long established family run restaurant in West Sussex.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Newquays newest restaurant” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bespoke catering and events company based in South East London with a focus on great flavour and an eye for food design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a trendy 60 seat cocktail and tapas bar located in the heart of Whitehaven We have reinvented cocktails as you know them to bring some amazing flavours, complimented by our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission at Salty Olive is to offer our guests an authentic Spanish pinchos (pintxos) experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: tapas bars. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names tapas bars.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tapas bars, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tapas bars. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Tapas bars based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 182 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among tapas bars, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “tapas bars”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names tapas bars), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among tapas bars, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 92 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Tapas bars by metro
- Tapas bars in London45
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names tapas bars, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many tapas bars are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 182 tapas bars headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Polpo LTD, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most tapas bars?
London leads with 45 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (7) and Manchester (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 92 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 182 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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