Danielle S.
Yelp
this is a great gastro pub. super warm and cosy inside, and right now, beautifully decked out for christmas.
there is a restaurant area through the back, and even on a monday, it was properly busy. i came here in a large group for a friend's birthday. the menu is mainly spanish tapas. i'm not au fait with tapas really, so it was helpful that we had a spanish guy in our group who could explain the menu to us.
as well as tapas they do also do main dishes, and you can order massive cuts of steaks for groups - we saw one coming out and it looked AMAZING and i'm not even a big meat eater.
my boyfriend and i ordered between us chipirones (whole squids in batter), goats cheese, beetroot and hazelnut salad, pea and sweetcorn fritters and chips with aioli. my boyfriend also got a couple of pork-y things. we weren't sure of how much to order because you can never tell with tapas, but these were big portions, so two plates each would definitely be sufficient.
the goats cheese, beetroot and hazelnut salad was absolutely amazing!!!! i would have quite happily eaten only that. the aioli that came with the chips was sooooooo garlicky. my god! but delicious.
the service was efficient, and we were well looked after all night, but i don't think the wait staff particularly liked us, and they could not be described as friendly. i like friendly service, but i wasn't too bothered that it was missing here. there was one guy on the front bar, who i think was a newbie, and he was great - super friendly and smiley.
chiswick isn't an area i'm normally in, but i thought the food here was great, and would definitely return if i was in the area, and wanted to blow some cash on delicious food.