Tasca Tasca is a Portuguese tapas restaurant in downtown Sonoma. We have not eaten there for a while and the idea of ordering a selection of different things appealed to us. The menu offers tasting plates of 3,5, or 7 items. I decided on 3 and John on 5. Then I got talked into also getting the soup so I actually had 4 items. The items come in ramekins and you would think that it is not so much food. But it is a lot of food! I am glad that I got the soup, caldo verde (hot green), but I ate that first and then I was pretty full before I even started. Everything was tasty. I gave part of my pork slider to John and traded him my chicken drumsticks for his flats. Even with the trade I could not finish the chicken wings. I also could not eat all the beets. They were in really big chunks.

John chose the soup and chicken wings like I did along with a squid and white bean salad and braised tripe. His favorite was the squid salad. For his fifth item he got olive oil ice cream to share with me.

We were so full from our lunch that neither of us wanted any dinner! We do not dine out often so it was fun going out to lunch.