Oaxaca

Mexican · El Born, Barcelona · €€

Open since 2014

Joan Bagur (Ciutadella, Menorca) spent eighteen years in Mexico under Carmen Ramírez 'Titita' before opening Oaxaca on Pla de Palau in 2014. Glass-walled kitchen, an in-house garden growing 40+ Mexican products, and one of Europe's most serious mezcalerías (~80 references).

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Joan Bagur is from Ciutadella, Menorca — invited to Mexico by Carmen Ramírez (Titita), spent three years apprenticed in her kitchen, eighteen years in the country total Found Barcelona's markets unable to supply what he needed; cultivated his own garden — 40+ Mexican products including jalapeños, poblanos, chiles de árbol, frijoles, nopales, Mexican herbs

Glass-walled open kitchen — every dish made from scratch and to order; tortillas pressed in front of you Mezcalería runs separately — around 80 references, dedicated bar area for tastings, structured around regional production

Sope de escamoles (ant eggs over bone marrow with epazote and chile verde); tostada de atún rojo with corvina roe and salsa macha Elote with chapulines (grasshoppers); guacamole prepared tableside in a molcajete; pescado zarandeado; cochinita pibil; al pastor tacos with grilled pineapple Nieve de mango with chamoy; ruta del chocolate (three chocolate textures) — Mexican closures, not Europeanised

Glass-walled open kitchen — tortillas pressed in front of you, everything made to order in view of the room. Mezcalería bar area with around 80 references runs separately — terrace out front.

Pla de Palau address bridges Born and Barceloneta — neither tourist epicentre; the room reads destination rather than walk-up

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“Adapt? Like hell.” — Joan Bagur · Guía Repsol

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Address
Pla de Palau, 19, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Phone
+34 933 19 00 64
Website
oaxacacuinamexicana.com
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