Eat Out London!Pix Pintxos
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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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'.
APP REVIEW: TooGoodToGo – eating leftovers and saving a fortune
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The food app encourages restaurants to sell and users to buy end-of-the-day leftovers for incredibly low prices in order to fight food waste and divert one million meals from landfills in Europe to our stomachs.
Users pay for the meal before collection and they get a receipt that proves that the meal was purchased through the TooGoodToGo app.
The app doesn’t take into account different closing times on different days for restaurants and so I took the initiative to check the restaurant’s closing time for the next day online with the plan of arriving half an hour before they were to shut.
[EDITOR’S UPDATE: TooGoodToGo has asked us to clarify that receipts are only valid for the day of purchase and participating restaurants are responsible for keeping their opening hours up-to-date on the app – thank you.]
TooGoodToGo is a life changing app, not exclusive to anyone, and for everyone who wants to fight food waste.
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.
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?
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Rooms by the Hour | Restaurants in Soho, London
Rooms by the Hour is a hidden cocktail bar, aiming at reviving ‘70s sex cinema in the heart of Soho.
Located underneath Pix Pintxos, it’s a simple set-up: once your room’s been reserved it’s yours for 60 minutes.
The cocktail list should sit perfectly with the ‘70s theme, offering Harvey Wallbangers, Singapore Slings and their take on a Tom Collins.