Tortilla Bankside

You'll find Tortilla Bankside on Southwark Street. Join us for freshly made, award winning California-style Mexican burritos, tacos and more.

Tortilla | Bankside

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REVL events app wants to stop people from experiencing FOMO ...

REVL According to Brandon Stephens, the founder of the £25.3 million Tortilla restaurant chain, there's an app for everything — except for events.

Enter REVL, the UK's biggest events discovery app which disclosed £2.4 million in Seed funding earlier this year.

REVL Signing up on the app — using email or a social media login — allows users to select their interests, and add their favourite pubs, musicians, art galleries, and comedians to "playlists."

He added that while working with partners is a great way to spread the word about REVL, the platform is also a way for partners such as the UK film board or the National Gallery to promote their events instead of through their own marketing efforts.

Building the 'ultimate events app' Stephens declined to share the number of users the app has so far, but said: "We're ahead of our competition."

Tortilla Mexican Grill, Unit 11A 106 Southwark Street, London SE1 0TA

I’m now an (almost) expert on the length of the American/Mexican border and the difference between Mexican street food, Tex-Mex and California-Mexican… The latter of which is what Tortilla base their food on.

There’s a Burrito (medium or large), Fajita Wrap (medium or large) which is basically the same as a Burrito but with sautéed peppers and onions instead of the Black or Pinto beans, a tortilla-less Naked Burrito (the lower carb option), Salad and Dos Tacos (two small soft corn or flour tortillas).

Saff also had a large Grilled Chicken Burrito £5.95, again the chicken was cooked well and had stayed moist but, disappointingly, Saff was could only swap her cheese or sour cream (she can’t stand the taste of either) for a few shreds of lettuce!

The filling seemed bland and dry, the tortilla somehow stuck to her teeth, encasing here entire front set in bread making eating tricky, so it was a good job that we ordered the bottomless soft drinks, £1.40.

The hand washing facilities for messy burrito hands were a bonus, good thinking Tortilla.

Arbequina, Oxford: 'It sees me ordering a second bottle at lunch ...

Anyway, to Oxford, where I’ve long since given up trying to get a table at wildly oversubscribed Oli’s Thai, prompted by news that its owner Rufus Thurston has teamed up with Ben Whyles of former east Oxford stalwart Door 74, and opened a tapas joint, Arbequina.

This little restaurant, like its Thai sibling, takes the odd cliche and, through excellent provenance (bottles of fine, fruity olive oil on every table; arbequina olives, of course), smart buying (some of the spices come from as far away as the excellent Maroc Deli a few doors down) and a clued-up kitchen, delivers the kind of lunchtime pleasure that sees you (OK, me) ordering a second bottle, hunkering down on a stool and signing up for the chocolate salami.

Simple dishes done with a flourish are the order of the day, many of them vegetarian-friendly: butternut squash roasted until squishy and toffee-edged, with coriander, tahini and truly fine chickpeas – yes, folks, there are good and bad chickpeas, and these are so tender and creamy, they’re possibly the sought-after Navarrico.

Meat eaters can rejoice in a luxurious hunk of pork belly, crackling-crisp on top, the meat collapsing under the fork, and sparky with mojo verde, the Canarian green sauce, ringing with garlic, cumin and coriander.

– and that beetroot borani, an exquisite, Iranian-influenced cross between a dip and a salad is, amazingly, even better than the original: the earthy root laced with garlic, sherry vinegar, yoghurt and dill, scattered with walnuts and feta, and topped with finely diced yellow beetroot almost pickled in muscat wine.

Tortilla | Restaurants in Southwark, London