Fino

With pricey food and a limited menu I believe you will find better tapas in London elsewhere. Staff friendly and attentive, but the resturant gets very noisy as it fills up with people.
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4 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 1
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

A fun school reunion was our plan for Fino.

Our booking was made for 9 pm and although we showed up on time we were asked to wait at the bar until our table was ready. We ordered cocktails, which were refreshing but tasted like they had no alcohol. We were finally shown to our table at 9:40.

After placing our order and waiting for a long time we finally received some croquetas (which were very tasty) and a bread basket with 4 pieces of bread in it. We had been told by the waitress serving us that each portion had 3 pieces and we had ordered 2 portions, so when we asked about the missing 2 pieces the prompt reply given to us was that it did not matter as we were only 4 people on the table!!!

After waiting for another 20 minutes we were told that the tuna tartar that we had ordered was unavailable. We then asked if we could have the rest of our food, which only resulted in the waitress bringing out our printed food order and asked us what we had received so far.

We ordered a bottle of wine so make the wait easier, which came to us after we asked about it on 2 separate occasions.

We were then told that they were taking last orders so would we like any more food, definitely a dilemma if you have not been served 80% of the food already ordered.

On complaining we were told that the food was on its way which we did eventually get plate by plate with a long gap between each, except for the pimientos de padron peppers which were forgotten!!

We conveyed our disappointment to a very understanding manager who knocked off the service charge and 10% of the bill. This however did little to ease the disappointment of the evening. Although the food was nice (except the overcooked razor clams) I don’t think it warranted the prices on the menu or the service received.
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gayatri
3 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 3
Friday, July 29, 2011

I have to say, Fino didnt disappoint. Everything was superb, that is seriously they best tortilla I've ever had. With chorizo and allioli mmmm! Ok I say everything; except the prawn croquetas, they didnt work for me.

It has the potential to be expensive but if you watch what you order it doesnt need to be crazy. We spent £80 for two people (incl. 1 bottle of lower priced red) and the barman was very helpful on selecting us a bottle in our sub £25 price range.

Defo going back
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Gospodja
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

This was our second trip to Fino - this time with a group of 7 of us. Fino was excellent the first time we visited and up to the same high standards this time around too. Service was excellent, food was superb - everyone in our group raved about the quality of the food. Highly recommeded.
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IMO - View all reviews by this user
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Monday, May 16, 2011

ecellent food, excellent service, excellent atmosphere.
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10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Sunday, April 24, 2011

For my girlfriends birthday, I decided on Fino as I had high expectations from watching Gordon Ramsay's show and trying their food at the Taste of London festival. We were very disappointed, it's overpriced for small portions of food. We also had a couple of dishes arrive which we didn't even order and timing was poor we had our rice and chips arrive well after we'd already finished our mains.

Never thought I'd say it but I actually prefer the chain La Tasca, at least you get a good feed and for a third of the price!

Well I certainly won't dine here again! My advice is stay away!
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Rob J
2 Overall rating
Food 3 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Friday, March 18, 2011

My girlfriend and I desided to go to Fino for our anniversary after watching the program with Gordon Ramsay. I am Spanish and therefore I was really excited about the idea of finally finding a decent Spanish restaurant in London that would suit my expectations. Unfortunately, it was a very dissapointing experience. It is extremely over priced!! the bill came to be £100, which we were ready to pay but NEVER for the following things: Staff was nice but not worth £100 (it has come to my ears that Fino is one of those clever restaurants that keep the tips coming from credit cards!! terrible..), the food was a joke, we paid around £4 for two croquetas!! TWO! and £6.80 for three silk thin slices of Manchego!! £4 for two slices of bread!! I mean it can't get more ridiculous than that... I couldn't wait for my main as I was pretty hungry after our starter feast! guess what? another dissapointment, I ordered Crisp Pork Belly for £14 to received a plate that was as small as the starters! the meat was nice but snowed in pieces of salt that I could take out of my mouth with my fingers, in addition, I had to pay for a portion of chips as it just comes alone, in its small plate.... funny thing is that everything I ordered was recommended by the waiter, I don't want to imagine otherwise...

In conclusion, never again, not recommended and the most important... real thiefs, to the customers and to the staff... hahaha, good luck!
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Angye
4 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 0
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Poor food, mediocre setting, expensive tapas.

Raw crushed garlic seems to be a way of life here, even when it's not shown on the menu as Al-io-lli (or some such pretension).

Raw egg in the tortilla, liquid centre to the croquettes. The food comes plate by plate at the convenience of the chef as a deliberate house policy.

Pig's cheek and black pudding rice were just 2 things on the menu we didn't try.

£5 glasses of orange juice, price only given on the bill, was the icing on a largely unconsumed cake.
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4 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 2
Friday, February 04, 2011

If you truly enjoy food then you must try Fino. The whole point is to strip away any pretension in order to highlight the quality of food and wine. I rate this as number 2 only to the Ledbury, clearly a different type of experience, among London restaurants and I've tried a few. Go and you won't be disappointed.
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Urban fox
9 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Fino was recommended to us by several people, as one or two of the other reviews have said, inconsistency is clearly a problem here as our meal was appalling.

The Lomo Iberico was excellent, but I guess cured meat shouldn't be a challenge, also the ham croquettes were okay, however next came the clams, now you only get about 12 so expecting all of them to be good shouldn't be too much to ask, but they were pathetic looking little things with broken shells and the two I did eat before sending the dish back clearly hadn't been cleaned properly as they were gritty and completely tasteless. The Patatas Bravas were just frozen chips that hadn't been completely cooked, but apparently someone thought that grating raw garlic over the top would turn this into something special, it didn't. Finally the pork just average, somewhat tasty but over seasoned so you get the occasional big hit of pepper.

At this point I just cancelled the rest of the food and asked to speak to a manager, who didn't seem to surprised that I was complaining and to be fair did not charge us for any of the dishes that we had either sent back or weren't happy with.
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Matt Watts
3 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 2
Monday, January 03, 2011