Description
Basque pintxos are essentially small tapas or canapés popular in the Basque Country and Navarra. They get their name from the Spanish word for thorn, ‘pincho’, referring to the skewer picks that are used to keep them together. The difference in spelling comes from Basque phonetics, with ‘tx’ being preferred over the Spanish ‘ch.’
However, to compare Basque pintxos to tapas and canapés doesn’t do them justice – everywhere you go in the Basque Country bar counters are piled high with a mouth-watering array of the best local ingredients sumptuously and lovingly composed into teetering towers. In some bars you’ll find cutting-edge trends and molecular gastronomy in miniature, whilst in others you’ll find simpler, classic combinations.
