Sunday, December 12, 2010

pintxo

cat and i had gotten a groupon to the restaurant pintxo in belltown. it replaced the restaurant txori but serves essentially the same food, which are tapas.

we ordered a considerable amount of food for under $40 which included lamb meatballs, bacon wrapped dates, pork sliders, and quail egg toast. this is one of those restaurants i can say with certainty you can pass on. i'm glad we tried it but i'll be taking my business elsewhere. they definitely have good intentions with the food...but can't execute well.

this is the best dish we had all night, and sadly there were only three. you just can't go wrong when bacon is wrapped around dates (unless you're the restaurant tango, that is) but it was executed very well!


these were the lamb meatballs. the texture of the meat is hard to explain but it seemed like they touched the meat too much when they were mixing everything so it was a little tough. there was a mint sauce that accompanied it which i enjoyed.


the sliders were pretty tasty but they had a bit of citrus which made the sliders too tangy. a little hint would've been nice. you shouldn't have to make the same face that you would when eating a warhead...


these were the biggest letdown EVER. first off, they advertised the toast like there was actual chorizo on it...not a GARNISH of it. anyway, all they did was take toast, put ham on it, a quail egg and the meat garnish...people you gotta have a sauce or something to tie it all together. it just tasted bland.


nice try pinxto...we'll see if you make it longer than txori.

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