Poco Tapas Bar

From the Guardian newspaper:

“Step over Paco Tapas’ threshold into a little slice of Andalucía: dark walls, glossy bull coat-hooks, sherry barrels, beautiful patterned tiles and entirely open kitchen. There’s a solitary, rather mournful oil painting, a refugee from the original Casamia’s pizza-and-pasta days, and a lustworthy, duck-egg-blue meat slicer. Fragrant wood smoke hangs in the air from a serious-looking grill, complete with Etxebarri-style wheels and gears above smouldering birch wood. Brown paper menus come scrawled with the day’s specials, Spanish wines, hand-picked (and excellent) sherries and the now mandatory vast gin and tonics. It could do with a few more dangling jamón legs for the full atmosphere, but it still feels real: I believe it wholeheartedly.

Food is perfectly Spanish, too, even if it often uses lush West Country produce. But it’s Spanish from perfectionists: the proletarian patatas bravas, for instance, are here elevated to aristocracy, the potatoes double-fried until hypnotically crisp, their chilli sauce sweet and ripe from good tomato, the allioli yellow with good egg yolks and pugnacious with garlic. Or cazón en adobo: meaty dogfish in the lightest suggestion of batter, just touched with herbs and the sprightliness of vinegar, which whisks me straight to a summer’s day in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Cocido Andaluz comes rammed with chunks of various porky bits and pieces, crumbly, ferrous morcilla, chickpeas, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and a resonant hit of smoked paprika. It’s a fine thing, but I reckon it would be ambrosial the day after tomorrow. Calçots, those recherché Catalan alliums, come beautifully blackened from the grill with the best romesco I’ve ever tasted, crunchy with hazelnuts and almond and blazing with roast peppers.
I’m struggling to find fault. Perhaps there’s a tendency to over-refinement: tomatoes cut Rizla-thin for a fine, oily, salty salad; Cornish squid that might have benefited from more of the grill’s smoky embrace. “

Special Diets Catered

• Gluten Free
• Vegan
• Vegetarian

Opening Times

Please check with the venue for the most up-to-date information.

• Lunch

• Sunday: 10:00 - 14:30
• Monday: Closed
• Tuesday: Closed
• Wednesday: Closed
• Thursday: Closed
• Friday: 12:00 - 14:30
• Saturday: 10:00 - 14:30



• Dinner

• Sunday: 17:00 - 19:30
• Monday: 17:00 - 21:30
• Tuesday: 17:00 - 21:30
• Wednesday: 17:00 - 21:30
• Thursday: 17:00 - 21:30
• Friday: 17:00 - 21:30
• Saturday: 17:00 - 21:30

• Telephone: 0117 923 2233
• stokescroft@pocotapasbar.com
• https://www.pocotapasbar.com

Poco Tapas Bar - Bristol, 45, Jamaica Street, Bristol, England, BS2 8JP, United Kingdom.