Are you looking to try a new restaurant or a new cuisine? Blackburn with Darwen has plenty to offer when it comes to restaurants and takeaways, including some that serve tapas.

The idea of tapas is that a series of small dishes of different foods are served together, making it ideal to share with loved ones.

Whether you’ve never tried tapas or you consider yourself a bit of an expert, we asked Lancashire Telegraph readers where their favourite places to get tapas are in and around Blackburn with Darwen.

Several tapas restaurants were mentioned multiple times by our readers – let’s take a look.

Best tapas restaurants in and around Blackburn with Darwen

We asked our readers to tell us their favourite tapas restaurants in the area on Facebook and they named Mangiamo Tapas in Darwen the best place for a meal.

There were plenty of tapas restaurants mentioned with some other popular ones being Las Tapas in Haslingden, Essence Mediterranean Restaurant & Bar in Darwen and Tipsy Table Bar & Lounge in Accrington.

Mangiamo Tapas proved to be the most popular among our readers, with one sharing: “Mangiamos Darwen has been excellent recently.”

Las Tapas was also recommended by some of our readers with one describing it as “decent”.

On Tripadvisor, Mangiamo Tapas has a 4/5 rating from 421 reviews with one visitor commenting: “Went for my daughter's birthday, great tapas and equally good service. Even sang happy birthday for us, well done.”

Another said: “Went tonight for Valentine’s Day just me and the wife. Reserved a table for 7.30pm. Service was top notch led straight to our table and ordered drinks. Food was bang on portions just perfect size and all you can eat with a large menu of both Spanish and Italian dishes.

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“Never waited longer than a few minutes for next round of food and always served with a smile. Highly recommend and will definitely be going again. Made mine and my wife’s Valentine's date night perfect”.

Tap Select in Accrington and Raj Mahal in Darwen plus other restaurants also received votes from our readers.

Do you agree? Let us know in the comments.