Cambio De Tercio

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• Nice evening at Cambio de Tercio

  I've been wanting to go to Cambio de Tercio for a while now... but everytime I've tried, the place was full to the brim and I never seemed to have a reservation when I'd stumble upon its doorstep. Fortunately, once again without pre-planning, I found myself at their restaurant, eyes hopeful, and they had one table left in the back of the restaurant.The staff are warm, Spanish (or at least, Spanish speaking... I was certain some hailed from South America), and eager to please. The ambience is lovely... it's quite narrow with as many tables packed in as it can hold, yet I somehow still found the setting intimate enough to have a relaxed conversation and forget about all the other people. The wine menu has over 100 Spanish wines - slightly intimidating, but we simply asked for a recommendation and they helped us to navigate through it. For dinner, my friend had the oxtail and I chose the monkfish. We ordered sides of asparagus and padron peppers. The presentation was very nice on both dishes. The flavors of my monkfish were good, but more subtle than I would have preferred them to be (Yet I do think that some Spanish dishes are intentionally quite subtle, so it's hard to fault the dish).Beyond mains, they had an extensive list of tapas as well which we ignored this time around. It was all in all a nice evening. The food technically was very well presented and made, but next time I will try out the tapas and also try and choose something a little less subtle (since my palette clearly is not refined enough to pick up on some of those quiet flavors).

  Nip_and_nosh
  Review Date: 08/01/2009 Report review