Pix

Bar in Covent Garden

8 / 10 from 2 reviews

Address
63 Neal Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9PJ

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History

Telephone
020 7836 9779

Region
Covent Garden

Nearest Station
Covent Garden
0.16 miles

Category
Bars

Opening Times

Monday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:30
Tuesday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:30
Wednesday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:30
Thursday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:30
Friday	Open 12:00 - Closes 00:00
Saturday	Open 12:00 - Closes 00:00
Sunday	Open 12:00 - Closes 22:30

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Pix is a pintxo bar specialising in Spanish cuisine and tapas with an extensive range of wines, beers and cocktails.

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All In London Review

Chic tapas bar amidst the tourist trappings of Covent Garden

This Covent Garden find is the second branch of Pix, a self-service tapas bar that displays mouthwatering food on “pintxos”, the Basque word for skewers. The original, in chic Notting Hill, has a constant stream of beautiful people arriving to sip Sangria, nibble on juicy green olives and puff away on Marlboro Lights whilst sitting at the tables outside and spying on the local dress sense; its West End counterpart has a similar mix of trendy couples and young urbanites flocking here to fill up their plates with tortilla on sticks.

The décor is part swish bar part Catalan taverna, with rustic-looking wooden high stools and tables near the entrance facing the bar, where the food is displayed. At the back are conventional tables and chairs – it’s a small area however so it tends to fill up very quickly. The way it works is simple, you help yourself to as many morsels as your heart desires and your leftover pintxos are counted up at the end. These are priced at either £1.95 or £2.50 depending on the dish.

There are some wonderfully indulgent desserts such as the churros served in shot glasses with thick chocolate, but it’s really as a bar that Pix seems to best serve its purpose, not simply because if you happen to be hungry you can end up with a seriously hefty bill, but because its sleek interior, upbeat music and laidback, chatty atmosphere lends itself perfectly to a date, especially if you’re trying to demonstrate there’s more to Covent Garden than Belushi’s.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Feb 20, 2011