Fried Baby Potatoes in Allioli

This Spanish tapa from the Levantine coast of Alicante called patatitas fritas con allioli was a wonderful morsel I once had at a bar in Benidorm, of all places. I say of all places because it’s a bustling Spanish tourist beach town with nothing to recommend unless you’re a sociologist of urban Spanish yuppie culture. But that’s why I went: because one guidebook said “don’t go,” and to see lots of teenagers from Madrid having a summer blast. There’s nothing notable about the food the