Readers reviews for Fino

I love this tapas bar/restaurant… now I must say that I never treat it as a formal meal out as such and always try to sit at the bar by the kitchen than sit in the actual ‘tabled’ area as for me this provides a better atmosphere where you can enage with the brilliant bar staff, look over the kitchen and really enjoy… More

Beware. If you like us ended up in this beautifully decorated Charlotte Street basement on account of Gordon Ramsay's latest, self-publicising, piece of commercial TV – you will be gutted. Spanish clearly does not equal Tapas. But Tapas should surely sit within Spanish? And the first few other reviews I have read are… More

Really awful and overpriced – just goes to show that hype is alive and well in medialand.

Backstreet entrance, followed by an institutional corridor to a done-up basement
raw egg in the tortilla, raw crushed garlic on fries, salad literally soaked in vinegar
raw crushed garlic on steak supposedly in a porto sauce-bit… More

Having been told that Fino was being hailed as the best Spanish restaurant in London by Gordon Ramsay and others, I had high expectations. As a Spaniard, I was also really looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I could not have been more disappointed by the food, which fell below the standard I get in my local bar in… More

I thought that by taking my partner on his birthday to Fino I was making a right and safe choice.
After reading reviews, looking through the gallery and menu on their webpage, having heard about the success of Barrafina, I thought I could not go wrong.

Well, I did go wrong.

The decoration is not great. Maybe it was… More