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We visited Taberna de Antonio as the first stop of our Ronda tapas crawl mainly due to the other TA posts claiming that it was a cheap place for tapas close to the centre of town. The location is great: right in the centre with no more than five minutes' walk from the old bridge. The bartender welcomed us into the empty bar: a young English man with a Spanish colleague joining him shortly after. The bar was completely dead when we arrived, but just as we were finishing up it became more populous; perhaps it seems to be somewhere that is more active later in the evening after a normal time to eat. However, we were mainly here to eat, and so aside from our beers the main focus of our visit was on the tapas portions all served for around €1. They have a decent, but not huge, selection; we ordered several between the four of us to taste. The first thing to arrive was the albondigas; they were pretty bad. The meatballs were slightly chewy and the sauce was simply the tomato water that Heinz put in their baked bean cans. However, the other dishes were a lot better. Unfortunately they did not have the calamari that I was looking forward to, but instead we were treated to a tasty portion of local cheese, some salmon and prawn pintxos, and homemade croquettes which were all tasty. Our friends ordered several other dishes, which they too enjoyed, before we rounded the visit off with a blue cheese dish that was very tasty. It's not the best place around to go for a selection of local food: but if you are going to ramble around the tapas bars of Ronda which you should it's a good place to start, or even stop off on this side of town. The staff are really friendly, and they have a small but decent drink selection to go alongside some cheap and basic, but nice enough, tapas dishes that at least are different from the standard ones available in most bars of the Malaga to Gibraltar area.