My friend and I are visiting Americans and wandered into Pintxo last night and ended up having a wonderful meal and perfect evening. Our apartment is not far at all and I passed Pinxto a few times our first few days in town. We couldn't find a good dinner spot last night and finally decided to give Pintxo a shot. We were so glad we did.
The service was terrific. Very attentive and communicative staff. We had to wait a little bit, but were treated so well the entire time. I mentioned we were celebrating my friend's birthday and ordered a chocolate cake secretly before we were seated and it arrived in perfect timing with a candle at the end of the meal. It was delicious.
As was the rest of the food. We weren't starving, so we didn't get to try as many pintxos as we would have liked. The strawberry gazpacho was amazing and the crab and prawn duo was very tasty. We shared the filet minion, which was perfect. Our drinks were very good as well. We've had a lot of trouble finding good cocktails around Montreal, but Pintxo had really terrific ones. I'm sure the wine experience is great, but we did not partake.
Overall, it was a perfect evening. We are both going to rave when we get home to the US.