Appetites El Camoatí Restaurant

In the seventeenth century there was no such word in Spanish with the modern meaning, an appetizer was "a thing that opens and cleans the ways", a term used by doctors and pharmacists.

It is quite possible that the word "appetite" (from the Latin aperitivus - open the appetite) influenced this new and modern denomination; In most European languages, appetite is defined as the drink that is taken before the meal, generally of slight alcoholic strength: wine, beer, and vermouth.