Mordisco

Modern Mediterranean · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€

Grupo Tragaluz's first-born, reincarnated. Originally the movida café-bar where Barcelona's artistic community gathered in 1987. Reopened after Hotel Omm took the original space. Sandra Tarruella's interior in a Passatge de la Concepció manor house. All-day kitchen, deli, cocktail bar.

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The origin story of Grupo Tragaluz — the restaurant group that arguably did more than any other to invent the 'designer Barcelona' aesthetic of the late eighties — starts here. In 1987, Rosa Maria Esteva and her son Tomás Tarruella opened a simple sandwich shop on Passeig de Gràcia. The concept was radical for its moment: informal cooking, shared tables, a room that felt like being at home. It became ground zero for the creative explosion that the Olympic build-up poured into the city. The original disappeared when Hotel Omm took the space; Mordisco reopened at the end of 2010 in a manor house on Passatge de la Concepció, redesigned by Sandra Tarruella — Esteva's daughter — with the bitten-green typography on the facade by Eskenazi. Inside: a bright dining room, bar, sofas, a small deli, a rear greenhouse flooded with light. All-day kitchen from esmorzar through cocktails. Reliably well-executed Mediterranean — never revolutionary, and never meant to be. Mordisco is about lloc, history, and the art of the long Barcelona dinar.

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Address
Passatge de la Concepció, 10, Eixample, 08008 Barcelona, Spain
Phone
+34 934 87 96 56
Website
grupotragaluz.com/mordisco
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