José Pizarro At Ra in City of London, Westminster

One piece of modestly-sized cheesecake cost £11.00! And they had the cheek to charge £1.26 service even though we ordered at the counter and took our tray to a table. Outrageous overcharging. Never again.

An outstanding place to eat if you are visiting an exhibition at the Royal Academy. You need to book as it was really busy on a Thursday lunchtime. Service was absolutely impeccable and very informative. I had the green olives and orange slices as a starter, which was a very good combination. The main course included very tasty prawn croquettes in aioli , delicious chorizo and a potato based slice from a tart. All absolutely delicious. As desert a pear custard crumble was nothing like a traditional English crumble, but was very tasty nonetheless. I had the house white wine in a 500ml carafe, which was perfect if a little expensive.

This is a very pleasant restaurant for a lunch with a colleague or friend. There is a wide choice of tapas, all very well prepared and seasoned . Vegetarians have a good range of choices here and all the dishes are suitable for sharing. This is undemanding but good quality food in pleasant surroundings . It cost £70 for 2.

Only marred by the front of house guy basically politely suggested that we were crashing the restaurant without a reservation (which I made a week ago and confirmed). Note to him: check with your colleague who checks people in and shows them to their table, before making assumptions.

I'm a fan of Pizarro's other place in Bermondsey, where the dishes really allow the high quality produce to shine. At the RA, the atmosphere is undoubtedly pleasant and refined, with beauty all around, but the dihses left me overall underwhelmed. An excellent gazpacho was accompanied by a less enthusing pan con tomate (not very bright tomato) and a disappointing, tough cured mackerel. Sliced 5 Jotas was good of course, but at 500 pounds per Kilo I wonder about value for money, A dish of quail with very little to eat in it was OK, and so was one of carrot and cheese, while their famed Basque style cheesecake was no match for the best you can find elsewhere. The waitresses who served us were friendly and efficient, while what looked like the manager was inattentive and excessively relaxed and not on the ball. Prices are high, in my opinion, for the rather dull experience. If you want to try Pizarro, go to Bermondsey and when visiting the wonderful RA, for a meal go for one of the numerous options options in the vicinities.

We had a pre summer collection lunch today . I have wanted to try Jose food for ages so this was a great combo. To be honest, the food was good but not exceptional. We had delicious prawn croquettes in aioli , yummy chorizo and spectacular iberico ham. But there were some let downs. The octopus was tasteless and tiny served in a weird potato type sauce. Cheesecake dessert bland . We had the house rose and it was underwhelming . I might go back but not in a hurry !

The tapas were beautifully presented and tasted wonderful. The white wine Rioja was lovely and the service we received from Justin was great.

We were visiting the summer exhibition and find most Mayfair restaurants over priced. We love Tapas and this doesn’t disappoint . Authentic food excellent service stunning room. Highly recommend

Usually this restaurant is only open for lunch. But on Friday nights, the Royal Academy is open and so was this location, The atmosphere is very casual and the food is excellent.

On our recent visit to The Royal Academy of Art in London we stumbled upon Jose Pizarro, co-located in a tasteful space on the 1st floor of the RA building. And what good luck that was! The menu is an assortment of tapas. We indulged in three dishes for a light Sunday lunch: asparagus, chorizo and wild shrimp followed by a chocolate pot w/a flat white. The sauces accompanying the tapas dishes made each one a taste sensation. The dessert was icing on the cake, so to speak. Service was excellent: attentive and helpful. Highly marks all around.

Food was nice - upmarket tapas but 4 prawns for £17 …really! Also not a huge menu .It’s a cafe style restaurant not fine dining!

Not content with two sites on Bermondsey Street or even taking over the food Raymond Blanc style at a Home Counties pub Jose Pizarro’s colonising ambitions have reached the heart of the Central London art establishment taking over two areas in the Royal Academy accessed from the Burlington Gardens rear entrance. Apart from a ground floor cafe serving beverages pastries and a superb basque cheesecake is the heart of the operation on the first floor where a restaurant serving mainly tapas style dishes has nestled itself in the grand high-ceilinged Senate Room with tables spilling over into the atrium outside. This was my third visit, the first a solo effort; the second with my sister-in-law just after Christmas; the third with my wife and daughter. It was marginally less successful than my earlier two visits. It was 2.30pm on a Sunday afternoon. Hake and mash which my fussily eating daughter would have liked best was the one dish was off the menu. There were flowers on each table which had long wilted should have been replaced or just removed altogether. Sour bread arrived after the rest of our order which at least have us an excuse to order a plate of cold cuts. The bill was completely messed up - twice, with some items we’d ordered such as chicken canelon charged twice as well as two beers which we hadn’t ordered at all. Fortunately everything we had ordered was excellent particularly prawn fritters, cooked chorizo in balls resembling some rare fruit, a toast of sausages with a generous sprinkling of cheese on top, aubergine and tomato stew (a sort of vegetarian huevos rotos) with a fried egg. A chocolate pot and a lB almond and raisin tart shaped like a hat made for some spectacular desserts.

Most pleasant experience with my son having a selection of tapas. Dani was a fantastic host and made us feel welcome. Other waiters & waitresses were friendly too. Dani was special because they were busy but he kindly got us a table. Muchísimas gracias Dani. Wonderful food and lovely atmosphere

My husband and I are tapas fans so when I discovered this restaurant was at the RA where we’d booked to see the Hispanic exhibition, it was an obvious choice for my his birthday lunch ! The tapas dishes were all so full of flavour and very fresh tasting, the prawn fritters were to die for! Not badly priced and great service too. Ticked all the boxes !

Very nice ambience, pretty room, interesting menu. Beautiful presentation of all dishes. Fair prices. Prompt professional service. Loved the tomato bread and gem lettuce salad in particular. Would definitely return and recommend.