From the team behind The Rose gastropub in Bermondsey comes Andanza, an on-trend Spanish restaurant with Basque influences set just across the road. You’ll find it on Weston Street behind London Bridge station, serving a menu filled with authentic tapas dishes.
It is an intimate space, with room for just 30 diners across a mixture of high-top tables and window-side counter seats. The dining room follows a rustic-chic aesthetic that is characterised by carved oak panelling, high-top tables and brown leather banquette seating, with the room illuminated by natural light in the daytime thanks to large windows, then lit by candlelight come evening. If you’re lucky, you’ll even catch the chefs shaking a hot pan full of flames in the open kitchen. The decor is welcoming and relaxed, but the real eye candy is the food.
Pintxos (Basque-style snacks served on bread) are the menu heroes, with options of blue cheese paired with apricot chutney and tapenade, chorizo with chilli and piquillo pepper sauce, and a mini burger stuffed with manchego and chimichurri sauce. Truly indulgent, the brioche with jamon, orange honey and lavender crumble is a hit, as is the yuzu brined fried chicken with Thai basil aioli and hot honey.
The pequeno menu features marcona almonds, fine green beans with romesco sauce and hazelnuts and bread with aged dairy cow fat butter. Cured pork loin and Iberico bellota jamon are on the platos menu, along with manchego cheese with wildflower honey. Lastly, it's the tapas options. Enjoy classics like patatas bravas, spiced sausage with chilli jam or chips topped with chorizo sauce and egg yolk for a Spanish take on egg and chips. Seabream with garlic and chilli, Galician octopus with confit potatoes and dairy cow steak toast also feature. Drinks include a Negroni Equivocado, literally a 'mistaken' Negroni, made using Golfo Vermouth, Campari and Cava.