Pintxo

When this lovely little restaurant first opened we loved going there regularly with friends and with family and always thoroughly enjoyed the food. We found the staff to be very attentive and service was good. Indeed we could not fault it and recommended the restaurant widely. We recently returned there for a family meal and found the menu and possibly the chef had changed and the choice was very limited. All our favourite dishes had been removed and we had a difficult time choosing dishes that we could eat. Disappointingly we were given no feed back card to complete and it would have been a good idea for them to survey their customers about the menu changes. The food we had was just ok and the service fine, but until there are improvements made to the menu, we won't be back and that is a real shame.

Terrible service last time we went here!
Having asked for the desert menu and a few more drinks we were left waiting for 15 minutes. I had to approach the waitress as she had become oblivious to our table. On asking for the drinks and the selected desert I was told in no uncertain terms that they were extremely busy with other tables and would serve us when they had a moment. This waitress could have done with a lesson about serving tables from the start to finish of a meal not just getting mains out and forgetting the table - was it my job to tell her? No - that's what a manager's for but there wasn't one in the restaurant.

Very Poor indeed. I went expecting authentic tapas, oh how wrong i was! Everything was so bland, espeically the spanish water who was more rude than bland! Will never go back, La Tasca is better, and that is saying something. Please go elsewhere!

Just a follow up on my initial review. We had another meal at Pintxo and sadly this time we were disappointed. The food arrive quickly. Too quickly. About four minutes after ordering. In one dish, the Fabada, some things were hot and others cold. I can only guess that this time we had some microwave reheated food. The croquettas were hard and crusty. I can only think that they had either been made some time previously, or they had been reheated more than once. I made some comments to the waitress, but she didn't seem that bothered. Maybe these guys have taken their eye off the ball after opening the bar next door.

Not sure if we'll be back again in a hurry. Shame really as we're locals and we had started going there pretty regularly. Maybe it was just an off day.

Mark, I expect better. I've had better and all the dishes were as I described. Next time you are en route to Madrid go via the Asturias and el País Vasco and you'll see what I mean.
You have to develop a means of assessing a restaurant's quality without the need to involve your fiancee's place of origin. It isn't relevant. My family is from Cantabria and el País Vasco does that mean - ipso facto - they are gourmands? Does it hell!

I'm irritated by reading glowing reviews of places that are really at best - mediocre. The West End of Glasgow is awash with medicore and often over-priced restaurants. Naming the good ones is very difficult unless you happen to work for The List, the Herald or The Scotsman. There is no value whatever in lauding the ordinary, especially when you are supposed to know better.

If scorching hot and swimming in oil or cold and under-seasoned are excellent - then so be it but this restaurant wouldn't get into any guide worthy of the name. I'm happy with mediocre most of the time - I have to be - but that doesn't make it "highly recommended". Value-for-money, friendly, ordinary, maybe. but "highly recommended", not a chance.

I'm not sure what the other reviewer expects. My fiancee is from Madrid and she was familiar with most of the dishes was had. Where each dish was from, how it's cooked, etc. She thought the food was excellent.

The staff were very pleasant and friendly. We got a good vibe from the place the minute we walked in the door. The only problem is the new Mexican place across the road is really good as well.

But we'll definitely be back to Pintxo. Highly recommended.

Pintxo has pleasant and attentive staff and a reasonable atmosphere, it does not, however, serve good food. The food - for anyone who knows anything about pintxos, fabada Asturiana, gambas al ajillo or anything about Spanish, Catalan, Gallego or Basque cuisine - is ordinary.

The fabada Asturiana had a residual taste of cooking oil and the morcilla was bland; the gambas al ajillo was passable but not sufficiently seasoned with hot paprika; the chick peas with spinach and mint was bland; the chicken pintxos lacked seasoning and the mussels with corriander and white wine fought a losing battle with an over-abundance of olive oil.

Like all the other leading restaurant critics- as far as this establishment is concerned - The List's critic has fallen into the trap of praising something of which they (evidently) have no real knowledge or experience.

Why don't you employ someone who does or at least find out?