cambio de tercio

visited cambio de tercio again. great atmosphere with modern spanish cooking with an outstanding spanish wine list. service attentive and friendly. the jamon iberico was a great way to start and fried peppers are a great sides to many of the main courses this is great restaurant perhaps a tad over priced if you hit the wine list hard but otherwise an outstanding addition to brompton rd. the sister place opposit is less formal and ideal for more casual dining but cannot comment as i have not been there. the best spanish food in london ( probably)

the tasting menu was ambitious. it delivered most of the time. could do with a little tweak. yet, again, at £37.50 for 7 courses, i should not be giving too much of my bitchy, hopefully constructive criticisms?

most of these dishes were at least good, with the octopus, croquettes and lamb being very good. the stand out dish for me was, weirdly as it was vegetarian, the roasted tomatoes; they had just so much flavour. one disappointment was the asparagus which was overcooked. i think this definitely one of the top spanish places in london and although it is dearer than tendido cero across the road, the food is definitely better and more interesting.

the manager and the waiter are not polite when there’s an issue and they make the customers uncomfortable. also the bread basket is charge. its pricey

honestly no clue how this place is rated so high, bad food, way too expensive and creepy host. they brought the padron peppers as the last part of the meal and they were bad

not coming back

visited july 2013
area at the back of the restaurant smelled strange so we asked to move closer to the entrance which was no problem. service was very attentive and professional. we had tapas and a bottle of ribera del duero (for less than £30) - our total bill came to £125 for 2. i cannot say the flavours of the dishes justify the prices. the tapas tasted ok, but really not more than that. i really love spanish cuisine but food at this place is rather bland. overpriced.

it has been a while since i last visited cambio de tercio. for me, they produce some of the best modern spanish tapas in london. easily as good, if not better than the barrafina chains. yet for some reason, michelin have continued to ignore them and yet have seen fit to award stars to barrafina (why?) and ametsa. since my last visit, the restaurant has undergone a renovation and expanded next door, taking over the wine shop. good news since it was pretty hard to get a table without having to book in advance.

world class wine list, mouth watering food and five star service!!!

outstanding experience of everything a customer could want from a fine dinning restaurant.

i have worked in hospitality for many years as a manager in 5 star restaurants & hotels and managed lots of prestigious events.

so over time, i have developed fine tuned sensors for knowing the way that exclusive establishment standards should be.

we stumbled on this busy restaurant by complete chance and pachos was quick to greet us in a warm welcoming manner letting us know that he would deal personally with our request for a table and that we should expect to wait no longer than 5 minutes, we were then escorted and seated within 3 minutes and given menu's promptly.

vladimir then approached the table about 5 minutes later to take our orders and make his informed suggestions, which was very efficient as the restaurant was very busy. he made his recommendations and gave his diligent feedback on our menu queries.

the red wine was first to arrive, and for a mid priced wine was probably the best bottle we have had in a long time - silky smooth and robust with flavour. then the tapas came soon after and complemented the wine so well, that they were quickly devoured and more tapas dishes were then ordered.

during the meal we were asked at regular intervals about how the food was and topped up to the correct adequate level.

this was such a joyous occasion and i can very highly recommend cambio de tercio for people wanting to enjoy a special occasion at a world class location. pachos and vladimir were fantastic and ran the service superbly also.

i will definitely return again with a smile the whole way through my next reservation there!

i adore tapas and how it creates table conversation through sharing food, discussing flavours with your companions and all cooing over the dishes at the same time. it's perfect for large groups, romantic for two and a decadent treat for one... cambio de tercio in south ken has been my families 'go to' for (i think) over 20 years. it's still owned by the same lovely faces and still has a wonderful cosy 'unique' atmosphere even after expansion into several other branches.

everything was messy from the start. first we were limited to a specific "menu". since we were 8, we were considered a group and had to choose between 3 tapas + desert or 4 tapas and no desert (?!). then the waiter was everything but nice, it looked like he was making a huge effort to be there (which he probably did by we had nothing to do with that). food was not extraordinary.

if you are spaniard and you are feeling blue and homesick, cambio de tercio is a must. great wine list, delicious "jamón ibérico" properly cut, try the cuttle fish meatballs or the ox tail!!

march 15, 2015 · by eatwithsteph · in spanish . · south ken is where it’s at! history and background: classic spanish tapas on 163 old brompton road. cambio de tercio is the “ signature restaurant of the cambio de tercio restaurant group” . located in south ken, it has been open since june 1995. they also hold the largest spanish wine collection in the whole of london. having achieved a number of prestigious accolades since 1996, you can say that this one of the most authentic spanish places in town, that even tennis star, rafael nadal visits whenever he’s in town. ( you know where i will be dining come wimbledon…hehe.) the meal: bread and olives with wendy nuestras famosas croquetas de jamon iberico, salsa de tomate-tomillo £7.50 you may have to get used to the long dish names… above we have the famous ham croquettes, thyme-tomato sauce. crispy and succulent with the sauce giving it its full flavour. below we have a famous, signature dish el bulli tortilla. it was something different, and omelette was very fluid like, definitely something you should order. served in a cocktail glass, layered by caramelised onion and egg yolk added with potato crisps. el bulli £4.50 mini wagyu beef burger 100% w agyu, finca santa rosalia, burgos, spain £3.75 girolle mushrooms casserole with soft poached egg, veal stock and foie gras £14.50 yes i ordered a mushroom dish yet again! i really really loved this one, mushrooms full of flavour and juice but foie gras made how i like it, very soft. wendy ordered the patatas bravas. this was really good, a traditional favourite. crispy, but not too fried and not dry – since it was filled with spicy tomato sauced with aioli

cambio de tercio is seen by many to be one of the best spanish restaurants in london and after   seeing my fellow bloggers rave on about a couple of dishes i pushed this to the top of my to do list with a leisurely saturday lunch.

really bad service, ridiculously over priced and food not very tasty. we won't go back!

awkward attempts at molecular gastronomy do not inspire confidence. the menu highlights these by shouting out, in capital letters, when a dish has a side of ‘air’ or ‘gold’. grateful at being warned of this, it seems only polite to avoid ordering something which can only end in a bad review.