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Inspired by the pintxo bars of San Sebastian & Barcelona, Pix Bar offers an array of tapas and delicious Spanish wines
Vibrant tapas bars in Central London | Pix Bar Carnaby, Covent Garden, Notting Hill, Soho
Inspired by the pintxo (or pincho) bars of San Sebastian and Barcelona, Pix invites you to sample our tantalising array of Basque tapas, while enjoying the exceptionally friendly and vibrant atmosphere in some of London’s most iconic locations.
Whether it’s a promising first date, after-work livener or group celebration; our ever-changing selection of pintxos and exclusive hand-picked Spanish wines are sure to delight all tastes and appetites.
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Pix Pinxtos, Soho | donutsam London Restaurant Reviews Blog
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Pix Pintxos is one of the few options for the concept in London, and it does an excellent job of that.
Pix Pintxos offer a pick-three option as part of Mealfix, and I ran down the corner to pick my selections.
All the options looked fantastic, and I went with the: serrano ham & quail egg, marinated fig & goat’s cheese and the ham & bechamel croquettes.
There’s hot and cold options available, with long sticks being £3.25 and short sticks being £2.25.
Though the serrano ham with the quail egg is the same ham that gets served with the croquette, and the cheese notes from the croquette refer to the goat’s cheese and fig.
London's Best Basque Restaurants | Londonist
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The Basque food boom in London shows no signs of slowing down, and these restaurants - many of them opened in the last two or three years - prove it.
It doesn't matter if you're looking for dinner in a Brixton shipping container or formal food in a hotel restaurant, you can still find tomato-heaped warm bread or small, grilled-meat pintxos to give you that vibe.
While some Basque restaurants in London channel the 'balance your food on a barrel-table' spirit of pintxos culture, this W1 restaurant does a formal take on Basque dining.
This Basque restaurant is great in its own right, full of candlelight, with an impressive and wide-ranging selection of wine, along with an enormous list of lesser-known beers, and unpretentiously brilliant food.
It's a bonus there's a floodlit driving range attached, where you can embed with cocktails, Basque-influenced burgers and the growing realisation that golf is actually really hard... The menu at this restaurant from Eneko Atxa is described as 'a modern take on traditional Basque dishes'.
Pix Pintxos - Seven Dials, London
Inspired by the pintxo bars of Barcelona and San Sebastian, Pix invites you to sample their tantalising array of miniature tapas, while enjoying the exceptionally friendly and vibrant atmosphere.
There’s no menu or ordering involved - just grab a plate and help yourself to the ever-changing selection of mouth-watering dishes displayed across the bar.
All pintxos are priced at either £2.25 (indicated by a shorter skewer) or £3.25 (for a longer one).
As you’ll discover, the food and drink display passion and creativity, and the convivial atmosphere in which it is delivered creates a uniquely open and free-flowing experience, ensuring you’ll leave feeling replenished on every level.
Inside London's secret rooms | London Evening Standard
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London, for all its excess of bars and restaurants open to all, must also have a secret network of special cubby holes, access to which is only granted to those in the know.
Clandestine cocktails: the secret lounge at Callooh Callay (Picture: Daniel Hambury) Chiltern Firehouse Yes, we all know about the Lebanese cucumber, the crab doughnuts and the monkfish, the bearded chefs and the endless celeb-spotting.
1 Chiltern Street, W1; chilternfirehouse.com House of Wolf Come to Wolf Hall for cocktails, talks, live music and… a hidden Fainting Room.
12-16 Artillery Lane, E1; The Looking Glass A perfectly innocent-looking Shoreditch cocktail bar from the outside, but step right of the bar and you may find a surprise behind the giant mirror.
26-29 Dean Street, W1; quovadissoho.co.uk Pix Bar The Portobello Road branch of this pinxtos restaurant has a little secret to tell.
Seriously strange tapas at Pix Pintxos | London Evening Standard
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ES Food Newsletter As a bar experience, Barcelona’s El Xampanyet is close to heaven: a tiny, noisy, blue-and-white-tiled bar where I gorged myself on endless refills of cava, accompanied by small dishes — pinchos — of tuna, chorizo and red pepper stuffed with goat’s cheese.
Primarily a bar, with pumping background music, Pix is neverthless laid out more like a restaurant: you drink at a table, your drinks brought to you by one of the Notting-Hill-beautiful waitresses or floppy-haired waiters.
The main attraction, though, at one end of a long bar, is the array of different pintxos (for some reason, even though its inspiration is Catalan, Pix prefers the Basque spelling of pinchos).
But for a start, tapas grazing really requires a multiplicity of such bars, which there aren’t here, even in the painfully trendy environs of Westbourne Grove/Ledbury Road.
Other offerings are OK: morcilla and quail’s egg, cheese-stuffed peppers, although I never did identify the starchy chunk of something or other with the seared tuna — undercooked potato?