Come by Paco Mendez

Barcelona, Spain

After leading the one-Michelin-starred Hoja Santa as part of the now shuttered multi-restaurant project ElBarri de Albert Adria, Paco Mendez decided to stay in the same space but evolve his Mexican cooking in the form of Come, a mix of Mexican flavours, Mediterranean cuisine and the skills Mendez picked up while working at El Bulli. The team prides itself on making everything from scratch, such as corn masa for the tortillas, and fresh Mexican herbs like hoja santa, epazote, verdolaga and pipicha are sourced close to home at the restaurant’s garden outside Valencia. The must-try dish is Come’s emblematic Arab taco, Mendes’ reworking of a recipe from the Mexican city of Puebla, which asks guests to build their own tacos with spice-marinated suckling lamb, flavoured yogurt, pickled cucumber slices, aromatic herbs, chipotle chilli, and instead of wheat flour tortillas, osmotized lettuce leaves to achieve a crunchier texture. Of the 250 bottles on the wine list, which largely highlights small biodynamic or natural producers, around 120 are sparkling, so expect an interesting pairing of Mexican cuisine with champagne, crémant, ancestral sparkling wines, cavas and corpinnat bubbles.

Key Information

• Lunch: Fri – Mon Dinner: Fri Sat Mon
• 34 938 27 59 77
• Visit Come by Paco Mendez's Website

Location

Av. De Mistral, 54, Barcelona, 8015