Tres Gatos

"Offers cheeky cat-themed merchandise designed by staffer and artist @cassidy.dotcom." - Celina Colby

"You’ll have plenty of things to catch each other up on, but when you don’t actually know if you have anything in common with the person you’re going to dinner with, you need a restaurant that comes with ready-made conversation topics. Tres Gatos in JP is a tapas restaurant that’s also a bookstore and a record store. Split the chickpea fritters and some paella mixta and talk about whatever’s playing if you’ve already run out of family gossip." - dan secatore

"Jamaica Plain mainstay Tres Gatos puts several of life’s finest pleasures together in a single eclectic destination: Snack on Spanish tapas including lamb bocadillos, gambas al ajillo, and boquerones in an old house while sipping on cocktails, then saunter to the record store out back, with shelves packed full of records and books in numerous genres." - Eater Staff

"The beloved record store-slash-book store-slash-restaurant tucked into a house at the corner of Centre Street and Roseway Street." - Erika Adams

"This cozy Spanish tapas spot serves imaginative small plates and paella on the first floor of a former single-family home in Jamaica Plain. In the summer, the front patio is surrounded by flowers and makes for a perfect romance-fueled date night, and the restaurant offers year-round live music and flamenco dancing on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. After dinner, peruse the adjoining record shop and bookstore to find the perfect soundtrack for the rest of the evening." - Celina Colby, Valerie Li Stack, Rachel Leah Blumenthal