Camino Shoreditch — Restaurant in London

Camino offers amazing tapas in Shoreditch with alfresco seating outside the front of the restaurant. In this weather, it almost feels you are in Spain!

The inspiration for Camino came from a life changing road trip around Spain in the summer of 1984! Since then the Camino team have made numerous journeys travelling all over Spain bringing fresh ideas and ingredients to London.

The executive chef, Nacho del Campo uses ingredients sourced from Spain to create and bold and exciting menu at Camino. The restaurant has grown in popularitiy and now has branches in Bank, Monumnet, King’s Cross and Shoreditch.

We were super excited to try Camino’s Frozen G&T’s! They are served with frozen Beefeater London Dry Gin and Jack Rudy Tonic syrup. You can enjoy it on its own or add a homemade botanical syrup! We opted for one with Seville Orange and one with Strawberry and Pink Peppercorn. They were pretty amazing – my own criticism is I wanted more in my glass!

The Watermelon Mojito was similarly impressive with Havana white rum, fresh watermelon, watermelon syrup, mint leaves and lime. Very refreshing for this warm weather.

Depending on how hungry you are, we recommend 3 tapas dishes per person. There is a fantastic selection of meat, fish and vegetarian options and obviously it is all for sharing. I love how sharing plates are sent to your table when they are ready. It keeps the food hotter and allows the stomach to warm up!

Meat wise we had the Jamon Iberico Cebo (free range, grain fed and air cured for 30 months at £9.75) which was served with small toasted slices of bread. You could taste how fresh the meat was and it was rather moreish. The Iberico meatballs were cooked in rich tomato and red pepper sauce (£6.75) and were well seasoned and flavoured. The winning meat dish for us were the Croquetas de Jamon (£5) which were packed with creamy filling. They were spectacular!

We tried the Baby Squid with alioli and lemon (£7) and the Gambas Ajillio: Prawns with garlic, chilli and white wine (£9.75). The sauce accompanying the prawns was delicious but obviously rather garlicky! Lastly, we had a very generous portion of Patatas Bravas with brava sauce and alioli (£4.75). They were delicious crispy potatoes with two fantastic sauces. The Tomato Bread with garlic, extra virgin olive oil and Maldon sea salt were winners for us too. The salt and oil was just so addictive!

Camino serves amazing tapas in Shoreditch with friendly staff and lovely surroundings. This has definitely become one of my favourite tapas restaurants in London! Look out for bottomless Saturday’s with UNLIMITED G&T’s, frozen G&T’s or cava for only £20pp when you spend £20 each on Tapas. This sounds like...

Highly recommended for groups seeking a fun, laid back spot for drinks and cocktails. Avoid if you are after good food. The Spanish tapas served are bland, overpriced and small.

Camino Shoreditch is the equivalent of a Punch & Judy with a Spanish theme - fun, laid back and good for cocktails and drinks. Case in point, on Saturdays from 12PM they offer a brunch with unlimited house cava or sangria for just £25 per person. They also feature a bouncer on the door who ensures things are kept as jovial as a Spanish fiesta.

The food is bland (for the exception of the dessert menu), the tapas portion sizes are small and overpriced. The tortilla tasted like it had just come off the microwave, the patatas bravas were cold, the padron peppers overcooked and the Iberico meatballs, void of any taste. The prawns with garlic dish (Gambas Ajillo) priced at £9.75 only contained four pieces of shrimp. That is a cost of £2.40 per shrimp which tastes more like profiteering than anything else. The black coconut ice cream and churros where only dishes worth mentioning.

The service, while enthusiastic and friendly, is inconsistent and aloof. The crowd on a Saturday evening is a combination of large groups (including hen and stag parties) and couples.

If you are after a fun, laid back place for drinks Camino Shoreditch is your spot. If you are after tasty tapas offering value for money, in my non expert opinion, you might want to go somewhere else to avoid disappointment. There are plenty of restaurants offering Spanish tapas in the areas including Brindisa, Laxeiro and Sagardi that are superior in quality, price and...

NOT RECOMMENDED THIS BRANCH We chose to dine there because of they extended the eat out to help out scheme in September. It turns out we weren’t given the £10 off. When we arrived, we asked if we can have the normal table instead of high chair as one of our friends is not comfortable, but we were told the area is closed. The food was fine. The calamari were not crispy and most of the items are overpriced. But I would definitely recommend the pork shoulder - PRESA IBÉRICA. The service was terrible and not attentive. The gentleman who serves us keep chatting with his friends next to us without the masks on. No special measure for covid-19 as the General Manager, Lisa herself was’t wearing any mask. I have been to other branch of Camino and sure is better than this one.

I also received a free drink voucher which I wasn’t sure is valid but seems like no one in the restaurant knows about it. They offered it eventually without mentioning the offer are not combinable. I mean they could have let us know ahead. Then we wouldn’t take those drinks as we already ordered drinks. And they were arguing the terms and conditions. If we have read those, why would we ask them at the first place? To be exact, the voucher only mention not combinable with offer which MAYBE available. The restaurant manager offered to take away the desserts charge but she could have saved all the trouble by giving the option at first. And now we have to pay for the drinks that we didn’t intend to order. Overall, It was a terrible...