For the last twenty years, Brindisa, an adventurous food importer, has sourced some of the finest foods from Spain. These are available to professional buyers across the country and also at Brindisa shops in Exmouth & Borough markets. With the opening of Tapas Brindisa in 2004, Monika Linton, who founded Brindisa in 1988, realised a long awaited dream: that of working with the creative flair of José Pizarro and our growing team of chefs, to create our own place to serve Brindisa ingredients.

Tapas Brindisa brings you food and dishes from the dynamic partnership of José Pizarro’s creative cooking and Brindisa’s great Spanish ingredients. José Pizarro, influenced by his family home on the central plains of Extremadura, brings a modern twist and vision to traditional Spanish cooking. Brindisa, now in its 21st year of sourcing cured hams, regional cheeses and estate oils, brings a storecupboard of Spain's finest ingredients to the Tapas kitchen.

Privileged in its location on the edge of London’s Borough market, Tapas Brindisa also has daily access to fresh ingredients from Britain’s farmers, fishermen and growers. The wines here are exclusively from Spain and embrace both old and new traditions with a slight bias to contemporary and innovative makers.

It is a busy and informal restaurant, housed in an old potato warehouse on the corner of the market. Apart from indulging in the food and wine, it is a glorious place to watch the world go by as the original roller shutter openings have created huge window spaces that stretch round the whole space – market shoppers, people heading in all directions and by evening vast fruit and vegetable lorries fill your view.

Within the restaurant is a “jamonería” where Spanish cured ham and charcuterie can be prepared and packed for you to take home.

Tapas can be as simple as a selection of speciality farmhouse cheeses or cured fish, as well as soups, salads, grills and stews based on seasonal ingredients.