Pincho Restaurant
Restaurant - Mediterranean in Twickenham
55 Church Street
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 3NR
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Good fun, good food
Like Sue (with her excellent review, which I won't be able to match), we chanced upon Pincho when wandering down Church St looking for something different from the Indian restaurants. We've been back a couple of times since as the food is lovely: a great choice of traditional tapas and some more unusual dishes (including a good range of veggie choices). Downstairs is bigger, with some terrace tables, and upstairs tends to house parties (there was a birthday when we were there) and is a good venue for larger groups. Sue's review is so extensive that I shan't say more, but just wanted to add a second recommendation.
A User - 12/09/2008 | report this review
Disappointed
Just spent an evening at Pincho and will not be going back.We decided to start the evening with a glass of Champagne, the owner was serving us and he promised us he would open up a fresh bottle, and at nearly £10 a glass we thought it was a fair request. So we decided that we fancied another glass, we thought we'd go all out and have the rest of the bottle. After some fluffing about, the owner returned red faced, he had lied to us and had not opened a fresh bottle for us in the first place! Anyway... I then found a hair in the aubergine and mozarella dish, a long one.We then discovered the chicken skewers were half cooked, this was found out whilst eating it as it's so dimly lit inside the restaurant!! We felt like we were going to be sick at that stage.They need to strongly think about changing the chef and stop lying to their customers. At one stage we were the only customers in the restaurant, so it was not as if the kitchen was busy. Not recommended, unless you fancy salmonella!
A User - 10/09/2008 | report this review
Surprisingly good Tapas
An impromptu visit to Twickenham one sunny autumn day was how we discovered my new favourite place to have tapas - Pincho. Hidden away off the main drag, Pincho is a "Med Tapas Bar" which opened at the end of July 2007. We rocked up at around 1.30pm on a Saturday, and were pleased to see that there was a decent number of people already dining. After perusing the menu outside, we were tempted in by several tasty sounding dishes, and by the reasonable prices.Pincho is housed in an attractive looking building, tastefully decorated in an understated way (which I like). We were given a warm welcome and service was very good during our visit - which turned from a quick bite into a longer lunch, because we enjoyed the experience so much.We decided to order 3 tapas dishes to start, and one main meal, all to share. It was a tough choice, but to start we settled on the Chorizo & Courgette Tortilla, the Deep fried spicy marinated Sardines, and the Dates stuffed with goats cheese & wrapped in pancetta. Wow - they were all excellent. The stand out for me was the dates - it was a magical combination….and how can anything with goats cheese be bad!For main course we shared the Lamb, potato, chick pea & prune tajine with cous cous. It was delicious as well - the prunes just fell apart and added a subtle sweetness to the dish.The serving sizes were generous, and coupled with a bottle of Chilean Sauvignon Blanc - which we were not planning on drinking all of (yeah right!), we were pretty full by this stage. However, somehow the dessert menu made it onto our table and one of the items sounded intriguing so we ordered it - the Chocolate and rice pudding semi-freddo. Well, it was different and quiet nice, but not something I would order again….though we did managed to eat it all.Just when I thought we were done, the owner (who had been serving us for most of the meal) appeared with a couple of complimentary glasses of a mildly fizzy, chilled red sweet wine. It was a lovely gesture and the perfect finish to our meal at Pincho.
A User - 06/11/2007 | report this review
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