Dinner at Coca

Coca is located on Queen West, #783, and we have walked by many times and wanted to try it, mainly because it is a tapas bar and restaurant, and I love tapas.
Finally on Wednesday night we were free and in the mood, so off to Coca we went. I have heard it is hard to get a table there, and when we arrived at 7:40 on Wednesday, that was still the case. Fortunately there were plenty of seats at the bar, we were warmly greeted, and away we went! The waitress informed of us the Summerlicious menu, which was a salad, an appetizer, a coca, an entree, something else, and dessert for (we thought she said) $35. Seemed like a lot of food for the two of us, so we ordered one Summerlicious only, and a couple of a la carte items, like the olive plate and one entree.
The food was divine. I mean it. I liked everything a lot. Highlights included the aforementioned olive plate, which at $5, was more than enough. It was a long slim plate filled with all differently filled or flavored green olives. My favorites included the almond stuffed olives, the spicy chile olives and the sardine stuffed olives. I would go back just for some olives and wine.
We also tried cigarellos of fig and roquefort, which was a long thin crust with the two ingredients stuffed inside. Nice complementing flavours, although the crust was a little too crisp and burnt for my liking.
The coca we had wasn't really a coca (which they define as a flatbread pizza) so I was a little disappointed and want to return to try a really coca, as that is their specialty and namesake, but what we got was so good I can't complain. The duck, cherry and roquefort empanada tasted delicious, and was a great combination of flavours. It wasn't a big plate, but we were still getting full.
We had an arugula and manchego salad, which tasted great, with crispy arugula and I always love manchego, a dry Spanish cheese made with sheep's milk.
The gambas al ajillo (shrimp in garlic sauce) was the highlight of the meal. The shrimps were tender and juicy and dripped with olive oil and garlic. My mouth is watering thinking of them again. How fresh and tasty and juicy those shrimp were! We were oohing and aahing as we devoured them!
The other entree we got was a steak dish and the steak was tender and tasty with chili flavour and sided with a pepper stuffed with potato. The pepper wasn't super flavourful as I would have expected, but still tasted fine.
We finished with a shared dessert, from the Summerlicious menu, of sweet churros.
Our big surprise was the bill for Summerlicious was only $25, what a deal!! Summerlicious is over, but I'll keep going back to Coca!