In contrast to the service at breakfast, the service at the end of the day at Tierra Brindisa couldn’t have been friendlier or responsive. Pat suggested Tierra Brindisa for a meal option to give my family a chance to sample some typically Spanish fare – tapas. I’m sure we have Spanish restaurants in Australia but I don’t think my parents or Stephen really frequent that scene. Its one of my favourite types of meals – but in London it can get expensive.

Tierra Brindisa is a small venue located in Soho – small and popular enough that you actually need to book well in advance to get a sitting. Its very cosy inside and as a result if you have any sort of large group near your, or a particularly loud person, it can get very noisy and disturbing. But still, we were famished enough to overlook the very loud table of bachelors sitting next to us …

The menu at Tierra Brindisa is not overlong and it is also constantly changes – in face the menu serves as a kind of place mat. Rather interestingly for tonight we had three different menus on the table! The waitress was a bit devastated … it took some time to work out which was the right menu but we got there in the end.

Food was pretty good although someone certainly had a heavy hand with the salt as most dishes were a tad on the salty side. The toast with the allioli was certainly tasty (though you probably wouldn’t want to be kissing someone afterwards the garlic was that strong) with my favourite items including the chicken croquette, a scallop dish, and leon chorizo.

Things I would pass included the cod croquette (again it was mainly the salt that got me on this one) and a squid dish which was kind of boring. The Patatas Bravas looked good but was a little flavourless – went well with the allioli from our toast! Everything else like the prawns, mushroom and spinach salad, kind of fell in between.

This is the kind of restaurant that I would happily return to – although not particularly cheap the constantly changing menu is appealing in the way that its almost like coming to a brand new restaurant on every visit. In terms of when to come, however, I would definitely try to come when its less busy because after a while the noise of what in total was actually not that many diners almost became unbearable.