PINCHITOtapas sure do appreciate loyal customers.  One guy in particular – I will call him Scottish Jim (probably because that is his name) turns up every day like clockwork, sits at his ‘usual’ bar stool and orders his ‘usual’ beer and tapas.  The guy has been coming in so long now that on the one day he didn’t show I thought about calling the police and reporting him as a missing person.  It’s impossible to get tired of his endless yarns – that is when you understand them through his thick accent. 

I have to admit that I have clocked up a fair few hours in bars around the world and hand on heart the best contained a local who was not only part of the fixtures and fittings but also dished out great gossip – ‘Juicy Lucy’ from Charleston U.S.A. you will always be special.

Who was it that said ‘A bar without a character propping it up is a bar without character?’  Oh yeah that was me trying to get a free drink out of a great looking barman in Soho - it didn’t work.  Neither did my bar joke “A brain went into PINCHITOtapas EC1 and says, One Cocktail Del Dia please!   The bartender replies, Sorry, but you’re already out of your head.”

HA-HA-HA – I still think that is funny…ahem I will be the animated one sitting alone at the bar.

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