I HAVE been called many things in my lifetime. Kooky, for one. Obsessed with Roger Federer and Appletizer, for another. And, most affectionately, the man with no immune system, among other things.

But I certainly am not known for being a lover of tapas.

What I like about it is that you can get lots of different good dishes, without feeling too piggish.

This was the case when me and my sister went to Pintxo de Bath.

Sometimes when you get a main course, it can be one you don’t enjoy straight off the bat. With tapas you are spoilt for choice as there is strength in numbers, more often than not.

But, and for me it is a noteworthy but, in the few times I have had tapas, usually one dish will be brilliant, several are good and a couple are average.

When you get one irresistible steak or a seafood pasta for instance, you don’t think, ‘I wish I could get another equally good dish’.

So, even though you did not ask, now you know my thought process as to why it is not my first port of call.

I digress ever so slightly.

Me and the little one went to the Spanish restaurant, which is first come first serve, and managed to get a table in its beautiful courtyard garden – which had complimentary white hats there, for which I helped myself.

Even though the inside had a charming and open setting, with its wooden décor and large glass windows, it was a glorious day to bask in the warmth and splendour of a rare sunny day

The staff were extremely jolly and quick to serve us.

Having eaten here before with my housemate, I immediately knew one of the dishes I was going to choose, the pintxo de datil. This sumptuous offering is made up of dates, goats cheese and crispy jamonpintxo (£5.50). Good gravy I loved this one. I may just order this dish and nothing else from now on if I go back.

My sister was rabbiting on about how great fried padron peppers (£4.50), so we went for that.

We then chose spinach and goat’s cheese croquettes (£5), fried squid in panko bread crumbs (£8), prawns cooked in olive oil with garlic and chilli (£8) and we washed it down with a sangria (£6) and a glass of cava (£5).

The peppers were tasty and well seasoned, the croquettes were light and flavoursome and the dates were magical. However, going back to my earlier point, the prawns were average, dare I say a bit tasteless and the squid was not bad with the garlic mayo.

As I regaled my sister with a couple of legendary tales of Peter O’Toole and Richard Harris, there is a glorious 25 minute compilation of their epic drinking tales on Youtube if you’re interested, we thought we should stay a bit longer.

So I got another sangria and the sister got some churros, as the waiter recommended them.

Unfortunately, she said they were nothing special, which was a shame, but it was still a darn rootin’ tootin’ good evening and I would happily go back there, if only for that heavenly dates dish.

I thought it was reasonably priced as the whole meal came to £53.50. Ole!

By Richard Mills