Pincho, Twickenham, London

Great atmosphere, lovely food and really friendly staff. Will visit again

Away from main street so easy to sit outside & have a pleasant meal in a quiet and pretty part of Twickenham. Stumbled across this place as we were cycling through the town – it is close to the river and the cycle paths. Would thoroghly reccommend the restuarant. Staff were welcoming, food interesting, tasty & served quickly. Linch came in at ~ £10 per head for two not veery hungry cyclists. Coffee was a disappointment but whn I mentioned this to the waiter he was extremely apologetic & made another one (delicious). Five stars & would eat there again.

a fantastic tapas restaurant with a seasonally changing menu and really really good lunch mains too. I'm a regular and they all know my name, which is how often I'm there£ they can cope with two or 16 of you, and it's best in the summer outside for a loooong afternoon and evening of tapas and drinking... heaven.

To begin at the beginning Pincho offers three sections to choose from;
Tapas, Mains and Grills, and Salads, each of which have daily specials on the boards. The food was excellent and not served as minute portions. Three of us ate far too much but as a result can highly recommend the following:
Hoummous,
Sea food skewers glazed with Lime & Coriander,
Moroccan spiced Chicken skewers with wild garlic yoghurt,
spicy minced lamb with the same,
Crab and prawn cakes with balsamic and sweet chilli,
Baby spare ribs,
Rib eye steak,
Beef and chorizo meat-balls with tomato sauce.
Crispy duck and watermelon salad.

OK we are (I am at least) pigs. The beer and wine were reasonably priced with specials on bottles of wine (bin-ends)
Service was excellent and all of the staff were very attentive.

We only ate downstairs where the atmosphere was very good, my wife has also eaten upstairs with friends and said that it is not as welcoming.

Prices very keen and all round excellent value.

I don't have a lot of spare time, so this won't be a long review... :)

But my wife and I stumbled across Pincho about 6 weeks ago for the first time and have since had two fantastic meals there (and have reservations for this coming Sat night!).

I can honestly say that I've been impressed with every dish I've tried so far and the service and atmosphere is spot on. If you're a fan of tapas and are looking for somewhere way above average, check out Pincho.

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.