Legado, Nieves Barragán Mohacho’s second venue in partnership with JKS Restaurants, will open on Thursday, August 28th, 2025.

Legado, meaning ‘Legacy’, is a profoundly personal expression of Spain and its rich regional food culture from the heart of visionary Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho.

Suitably located in London’s Shoreditch, Legado is Nieves’s creative home, allowing her to share her beloved Spain through her intuitive artistic lens.

With over two decades at the helm of Spanish cuisine in London, Nieves is renowned for her energetic joy in presenting some of her home country’s most iconic dishes, served at the one-Michelin-starred Sabor in Mayfair.

Legado, however, is set to move beyond the familiar, allowing the wider ingredients, lesser-known dishes, regional culinary traditions and the Spanish artisans Nieves adores to take centre stage. With seating for over 60 in the dining room and space for 16 at the counter, Legado will also introduce the Taberna, a dedicated bar and outdoor terrace open all day serving tapas and pintxos. Nieves explains, “Spain’s food heritage is incredible and has rightly deserved recognition in London and globally. Its colours, tastes, and smells are rooted deeply within me. However, many dishes I love, I have never seen outside the country and want to bring them and even more to London.”

The Food

Ingredients – including their producers, history, and legacy – are at the fore of Nieves’s vision and the very soul of Legado. This begins with whole animal butchery, which will take place in-house, honouring farmers, animals, and the regions that rear them.

Lamb, for example, is from Zamora, Lechazo de Castilla y León (IGP protected Indicación Geográfica Protegida), and will weave its way throughout the menu, celebrating dishes from the Basque Country to Mallorca. Likewise, suckling pig, a symbol of prosperity and abundance with roots that trace back to Roman times, comes from the award-winning farm Tabladillo el Cochinillo in Segovia, a province north of Madrid that celebrates this as a source of regional pride. Ham will come from Señorío de Montanera – a DOP (Denominación de Origen Protegida) company specialising in 100% Iberian pigs that roam freely in the dehesa (oak savanna) of Extremadura, a landlocked region on the border with Portugal. Like so many of these relationships at Legado, Señorío’s connection to Nieves is personal; favoured by her family throughout her childhood, being able to champion these producers is a source of great pride and meaning to her.

Equal attention is devoted to Legado’s seafood and fish offerings, with a menu celebrating the country’s diverse coastal cuisine. Dishes include tiny, translucent, crisp, Crystal Mediterranean Prawns, finished with smoked paprika and Moscatel vinegar, or confit lobster with chilli and garlic on a base of thinly sliced rose potatoes – each topped by an egg expertly fried Spanish-style, allowing the warm runny yolk to form the sauce. Grilled catch of the day is served by the half with an Ajada sauce from Galicia, with guests invited to choose from either the head end – gelatinous-rich and favoured by many communities throughout Spain – or the leaner, lighter tail end.

Vegetable and salad dishes will include the Legado Sandwich – an intricate, two-day process made with Swiss chard, Cecina, and smoked cheese, fried in breadcrumbs – a fond memory from Nieves’s grandmother’s kitchen. Seasonal specials, for example, will feature traditional Valencian fideuà, made with short, thin noodles that replace traditional paella rice. And finally, desserts will centre around seasonal favourites, such as summer apricots made into a sharp sorbet, served with a lightly aerated almond milk and rich rosemary oil.

The Drinks

Meals at Legado are designed to begin with a 3-Sip Serve, a choice of five seasonally changing vegetable and fruit-based cocktails served chilled but without ice. Created to prepare the palate gently and ready for the meal ahead, each drink is presented in a small bespoke ceramic representing different regions in the country.

The 150-bin wine list will celebrate traditional and emerging regions and styles, showcasing the finest in Spain. Modern classic and artisan producers using historic minimal intervention winemaking practices will sit beside small growers that champion the revival of forgotten indigenous grape varietals. Classic fine wines will include Bodegas Muga, with a vertical of their Prado Enea vintages, and a broad range from Bodegas Lopez de Heredia. Also included are a selection of island wines and six different gastronomic Rosados.

A rotating selection of 18 wines by the glass will allow guests to explore a wide selection of exciting styles and grape varietals.

An extensive list of Sherry will feature, including rare single bottles, artisan bodegas, en rama styles and exclusive bottlings from Bodegas Lustau from their Almacenista range. A concise but diverse selection of sparkling wines from Cava, Corpinnat and traditional method Txakoli, as well as the dry unfortified white wines from Jerez, showcasing the growing trend for the Palomino grape, will give guests an ever-evolving selection and variety throughout the year to accompany Legado’s dishes.

The Restaurant

Design elements centre on a contemporary palette of green, plaster pink, and terracotta that repeat and punctuate the space in various forms. The dramatic double-height space of the 64-seat main dining room is flooded with natural light during the day, with exposed original London Stock brickwork along one wall, and a showcase wine display on another, taking full advantage of the extended elevation, revealing the incredible wines on offer. An open show kitchen is flanked by generous counter seating for up to 16 guests.

Housing the restaurant’s two hand-built, custom feature ovens (one for lamb, the other for pork) installed in situ by specialist craftsmen from Spain’s famous Hornos Jumaco Maestro in Madrid, the counter provides the perfect front row seats to observe all the theatre of the chefs at work. The spacious entrance boasts a display at one end from the kitchen’s daily selection of fish and seafood, with a destination bar and delicatessen at the other. Open all day from 12 noon to 10.30 pm, serving drinks, tapas and pintxos, the Legado bar, Taberna boasts 15 internal seats with tempting views into the restaurant and kitchen beyond, and 18 outside on a protected terrace.