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Pinxto People - review by mrsevans101

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:40:00 +0000

Pinxto People - review by mrsevans101

Rating: 3.3

Location: 95 Western Road, BN1 2LB, Brighton, United Kingdom

Tags: tapas, pinxto, bargain, mediterranean, lunch

We really enjoyed our spot of lunch at Pinxto People in Brighton on Friday. A bit of a trek (it's almost Hove, really) but well worth it.

We ordered some manchego-like cheese, spicy pork, empanadillas (little pastry packages filled with tasty meat), some bread and oil and some squid. With a couple of hot drinks this came to about Â£25.

The spicy pork (a special on the day) was lovely - a bit like the chorizo in red wine that you find in Andalucia. The bread and oil was gorgeous - crusty bread with a delicious fruity fragrant oil. The cheese came served with a separate dish of toasted thin bread slices with fresh tomato saucy stuff that was scrummy (it tasted of summer to me - fresh and sweet and sunshin-y). Service was quick with dishes coming out nicely spaced to make sure we got to try it all when it was hot.

We thoroughly enjoyed it and if we lived closer I know we'd be there more often. Not sure if I'd go there of an evening, though.

Nounou - review by louash

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:46:02 +0000

Nounou - review by louash

Rating: 5.0

Location: 120 St. Georges Road, BN2 1EA, Brighton, United Kingdom

Phone: 01273 682200

Tags: romantic, family & home feel, middle eastern, north african, good value

I've been here three times - all excellent.

Nounou is moroccan/arabic themed, with beautiful decor and serves tagines, mezze, lots of meat stuff which my boyfriend says is excellent. There's always nice veggie or fish stuff too.

The starter mezze is gorgeous and filling. They sell quite a lot of moroccan, lebanese and algerian wine which has all been really good.

Never been downstairs but I know of people who've had wedding receptions here and said it was really good. Also seen some large tables near the back which would be great for a large group of people.

I think a lot of people local to Kemp Town come here but more from central Brighton and Hove should too!

Pinxto People - review by pb24

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:39:53 +0000

Pinxto People - review by pb24

Rating: 3.3

Location: 95 Western Road, BN1 2LB, Brighton, United Kingdom

We spent Â£35.60 in 20 minutes at this joke of a restaurant and were so hungry we had to eat somewhere else an hour later!! If you're the kind of person who thinks that Â£50 a head to eat in this place is reasonable then by all means waste your hard earned dosh. Those of us who have a little less money to spend and when we do spend it want to make sure it goes on a decent place serving decent food will stay well clear of this establishment. We spent Â£6 on five tiny cod croquettes which were on the 'specials' board and another Â£6 on the smallest helping of bland meatballs I've ever had!! Seriously, avoid this place like the plague, it just doesn't cut the mustard in any shape or form.

Pinxto People - review by TimWIld

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:52:40 +0000

Pinxto People - review by TimWIld

Rating: 3.3

Location: 95 Western Road, BN1 2LB, Brighton, United Kingdom

Tags: lively, house, sexy, spanish, crowded, expensive, trendy

I've only just moved back to Brighton, so my memories of the place loom large in all my new experiences. I can't walk past the skanky concrete cave at the land end of the West Pier without remembering the daytime rave my housemates and I found on our first walk into town. I can't go past Portslade on the train without thinking of the summer job I had, making door and window handles in a grimy shed and hitching to work to avoid the bus fare.

And I can't go out for a smart dinner in the centre of town without thinking of the Dumb Waiter, the little café that used to represent my big culinary treat when I was on the dole a big veggie breakfast, laden with carbs, washed down with a decadently frothy coffee.

It's still there, with its nose rings and its rollups, but Brighton's dining has definitely changed over the years. This is what I thought as I stood in the bar at Pinxto People, drinking a glass of champagne, and waiting for a well-dressed maitre'd to tell me my table was ready.

For Pinxto People (Pinxto are bar snacks, those fantastic stacks of one-bite deliciousness that accompany any self-respecting Catalonian drink) is quite glam, thanks very much. Little black dresses, strange and expensive drapery, waiters that explain things to you, food on rectangular plates, the whole deal.

I'll spare you the full waiter show, but the gist was this there's lots of little dishes, we'll bring you a whole bunch of them, anything you don't like we'll take away. My idea of heaven is to sit down and just have people bring me stuff to eat, so I love it, but you can also order like a regular person if you want to.

There were a lot of dishes about twelve in all and we were sharing, so I'll stick to the ones we fought over. The rare fillet steak with straw mushrooms was properly rare, incredibly tender, and deeply savoury. Acorn-fed Iberico ham was sweet, fatty and dangerously addictive. The pimentos padron (small, chargrilled green peppers with rock salt) weren't quite so popular with everyone, but I rather like the unabashed green flavour of them. Monkfish and a great fish and chips dish kept the non-carnivores very happy too.

Dinner for five, with three bottles of champagne, water, and two extra glasses of wine was just under £50 a head. Not bad at all.