Restaurateurs behind Barrafina, Parrillan, El Pastor, Quo Vadis, Bar Daskal, The Drop and Two Drops.
Harts Group conceives, builds and operates leading hospitality brands, and develops exceptional people.
Led by Sam Hart, Crispin Somerville and Anna Watkins, Harts Group is the business behind Barrafina, Parrillan, El Pastor, Quo Vadis, Bar Daskal, The Drop and Two Drops.
Harts Group is family-run, quality driven, and has been creating award-winning restaurants for over 20 years.
Our Brands
Informed by our unique passion and personal experience, we strive to operate best-in-class restaurants, with exemplary service and convivial atmospheres. Creativity, generosity, and care over details are at the core of the Harts Group experience.
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For all the latest on new openings, upcoming events, and our progress becoming ever more sustainable, keep up to date with Harts Group here.
Private Parties and Events
We have several private dining room or exclusive hire options across our venues, suitable for both intimate parties and larger events. If you can’t find what you are looking for, our events team are happy to discuss a personally tailored event.
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Career Oportunities
Harts Group is a community of talented individuals, who create great food and drink and offer exemplary hospitality. We are always looking for enthusiastic people to work with us across the group, within front of house, back of house and head office.
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“The more the team are involved in the co-creation of solutions, the more they feel ownership of making change happen.” Anna Watkins, Managing Director of Barrafina Group, shares her approach to leadership in hospitality, how she empowers and motivates Harts Group teams, and who she admires in the industry with @thebuyer11.
Thank you to The Buyer for the lovely feature, which you can read at the link in our bio.
10 years of @barrafinalondon Adelaide Street ❤️
This July, we’ll be celebrating a decade since we opened our second Barrafina on Adelaide Street in Covent Garden. We’re so incredibly grateful for the continued support of so many of our wonderful guests, and can’t wait to share this exciting milestone with you all.
Join us this Friday 5th July as we bring back a selection of favourites from the opening menu such as bocadillo de calamar, calves’ brains and crab croquetas, served by some of the original team members (including our founder Sam Hart) who have been with us since we first opened our doors, on the very day 10 years ago. The specials will be available from Friday 5th July until Sunday 14th July.
Huge congratulations to the team, and here’s to ten more. 🥂
Last Sunday, Sant Joan bonfires were set alight throughout Spain to mark the arrival of summer. Fire, which represents the burning away of past troubles, is paid tribute to on this day with communities gathering to dance and jump over bonfires to cleanse the soul.
Join us in welcoming the beginning of summer at our two @parrillanlondon restaurants in Coal Drops Yard (King’s Cross) and Borough Yards (London Bridge). Celebrating Spanish cooking over fire, Parrillan is taken from the Spanish word, ‘parrilla’, meaning grill.
At both terraces, guests can cook a choice of beautiful meat, seafood and vegetables on their own mini parrillas (tabletop grills). At Borough Yards, our chefs have an ambitious menu of their own, with signature dishes such as Txuleta or whole fish of the day grilled over the coals and a vegetarian arroz de primavera, baked in the wood-fired oven. 🔥
Wherever you find yourself in London, one of our sunny terraces await you. ☀️
In central London, we have al fresco dining at @barrafinalondon Drury Lane, in the heart of Covent Garden’s theatreland or at Soho’s @quovadissoho on bustling Dean Street, smoked eel sandwich and martini in hand.
At @coaldropsyard, sip a pint on the terrace at our neighbourhood bar, @thedropbarlondon, tucked beneath the Victorian arches. Afterward, enjoy a long, meandering lunch on our canal-side terrace at @parrillanlondon, or Casa Pastor’s lively outside seating accompanied with a weekly DJ programme, the perfect space for micheladas, mezcal, tacos and more.
Over at London Bridge, where the original @tacos_el_pastor is situated on Stoney Street, our summer terrace awaits and just around the corner, in @boroughyards, indulge in a large glass of your favourite blanco alongside some para picar in the Parrillan lounge.
Soak up the sunshine by the river in Battersea with a weekend brunch on the terrace at our newly opened El Pastor, right next to the @batterseapwrstn and finish off at @twodropsbattersea, just next door, for a spritz in the dappled sun.
A few details from the newly opened @twodropsbattersea, the second Harts Group offering at @batterseapwrstn alongside El Pastor.
A huge thank you to our friends, family, locals and our incredible team for a wonderful first few weeks. We’re incredibly excited to be in the new neighbourhood and cannot wait to welcome you all for a cocktail or a pint of Guinness and a cheese toastie soon!
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Happy Earth Day 💚
Earth Day raises awareness of the need to protect the Earth’s natural resources, and at Harts Group, sustainability is something we are continually striving for particularly when it comes to sourcing.
At @parrillanlondon and @barrafinalondon, our chefs work with fishmongers to select the highest quality seafood and fish available that day, while Barrafina’s daily changing specials menu showcases the best of what’s local and seasonal.
Considered a forerunner of meticulous sourcing, @quovadissoho’s Jeremy Lee, builds his menus around seasonality. In spring, we welcome produce such as beautiful rhubarb from the rhubarb triangle in Yorkshire via our suppliers Natoora. Quo Vadis is proud to hold a two-star rating from @foodmadegood.
Heirloom maize is one of the few ingredients not sourced from the UK at @tacos_el_pastor. Instead, we are proud to purchase corn from Mexican growers via our partners @tamoamx who work directly with farming communities who focus on preserving the agricultural biodiversity of corn. This corn is then used to make our tortillas in-house daily in Bermondsey.
Head of Learning and Sustainability, Darryl Chan, says: “We recognise the responsibilities we have in doing the right thing for the environment whilst delivering delightful hospitality for our guests every day, and we remain ever committed in continuing to drive improvements in our sustainable practices as we celebrate Earth Day.”
@2dropsbattersea, a neighbourhood bar and sister to @thedropbarlondon, will open at Battersea Power Station on Friday 26th April.
Crispin Somerville, MD of The Drop, Quo Vadis and El Pastor, says: “In Two Drops, we are creating a cosy and welcoming bolthole, where we’ve focused on all the details to make hunkering down here, in day or nighttime, hungry, thirsty, or both, an absolute delight.”
At Battersea, the humble cheese toastie will take pride of place on the menu. Buttered sourdough slices will be filled with Jurarégal – a cheese made from raw cow’s milk in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France – and toasted until golden. At launch, toastie fillings will include salt beef, pickled gherkin & horseradish; smoked haddock & English mustard; and marmite & shallot, and Executive Chef Marvin Jones has even created a riff on the toastie for dessert, oozing with dulce de leche, caramelised banana and hazelnut
To drink, Two Drops will be pouring pints on tap: Guinness, Estrella Galicia lager and a regularly changing IPA offering. A considered list of wines will be available by the glass or bottle, and the cocktail list will focus on classic serves made perfectly.
The design for Two Drops, led by @hartscreative, is inspired by nostalgia for a time when local bars or pubs formed the heart of its neighbourhood. Guests can expect an intimate and relaxed environment with warm, electric lighting, timber panelled walls, and a collection of vintage bottles from the 1920s - 1990s alongside a bust of Dionysus the God of wine, ritual madness and festivity.
Two Drops will be the second Harts Group offering to launch at Battersea Power Station alongside El Pastor on Friday 26th April 2024.
We are thrilled to announce that El Pastor Battersea will open in Circus West Village next to the Grade II* listed Power Station on Friday 26th April.
The menu will offer the Mexican dishes that @tacos_el_pastor has become critically acclaimed for, inspired by the decade founders’ Sam Hart and Crispin Somerville spent living in Mexico City, their travels around wider Mexico, as well as more recent research trips.
Making its debut for El Pastor will be a weekend brunch menu exclusive to Battersea, served from 10am to 1pm on Saturdays and Sundays. As with all the El Pastor restaurants, fresh corn tortillas will be made in-house daily using heirloom Mexican corn, sourced through the @tamoamx cooperative in Mexico.
Taking cues from both the colour and bustling street-side taquerias, and industrial, urban materiality of Mexico City, whilst referencing Battersea Power Station’s own industrial heritage, El Pastor Battersea will comprise a 90-cover indoor restaurant and 60-cover open-all-year outdoor riverside terrace.
We can’t wait to welcome you!
Every January, in the town of Valls in Catalonia, the Gran Festa de la Calçotada is celebrated, marking the beginning of the calçot season. Here, calçots inspire a theatrical feast – piled on a grill fuelled by grapevine branches and charred before being wrapped in newspaper to steam. True to the Catalonian spirit, it is a great excuse to get together and a sign that spring is just around the corner.
Calçot y Romesco is on the menu at @parrillanlondon Borough Yards.
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with Harts Group restaurants, including a party to ring in 2024 at El Pastor Soho’s Mezcaleria Colmillo and a special 4-course set menu at Parrillan Borough Yards.
El Pastor Soho
@Mezcaleria_Colmillo, @tacos_el_pastor Soho’s basement bar, and @herradurateq will host a New Year’s Eve ‘Sonidos’ fiesta from 9pm until late on 31st December, with special guest DJ @rufdug on the decks for a night of music, cocktails and dancing.
Tickets are £20, include a welcome shot of tequila and are now on sale via Resident Advisor.
Parrillan Borough Yards
The menu, created by @parrillanlondon Executive Chef Franciso Jose Torrico, champions Spanish cooking over fire and includes a welcome glass of Cava, a selection of para picar, Carabineros and scallops, followed by either 45-day aged Asturian rib-eye or monkfish for the main course. For pudding, Crema Catalana and turrones.
At midnight, all diners will be encouraged to follow the tradition of eating twelve grapes; one for every strike of the clock.
Tickets are £85 via Resy.
Thank you for your support this year, and wishing you a very happy festive season from all of us at Harts Group. ✨
Parental Leave Packages 🐣
Just over a year ago, Harts Group took stock - and then advice - on creating an industry leading parental leave package for our employees. We are proud to say that we listened to staff members and to experts and made improvements that we know have made a difference.
Recently, @samhartsgroup spoke to the good folk at @countertalk (whose insights on maternity and paternity packages were informative) about what this looks like and how other hospitality businesses might adopt similar policies.
You can read the full piece on the Countertalk website in the Community - Countertalk Loves section.
Bar Daskal Maestros 02: An olive oil tasting with @martiniegaoliveoil
Following the sold-out success of the first Bar Daskal Maestros with Manuel Muga, @bardaskal and @resylondon are proud to welcome co-CEOs, brothers Carlos and Javier Jiménez of Condado de Martiniega to present a tasting of some of the finest olive oil from Spain on Wednesday 22nd November.
Founded over 20 years ago in Navarra, family-run Martiniega produces one of the most sought-after varietals in the world, the Arbequina extra virgin olive oil. Offering guests a tasting of the new season harvest and various styles of oil, Carlos and Javier will be delving into the world of olive production and the processes involved in crafting exceptional oils.
@barrafinalondon co-Executive Chef @torri_san will be preparing a few small dishes using the Martiniega olive oil in different ways to showcase its versatility. From anchovies with piparras peppers, escalivada (chargrilled peppers, shallots and aubergines), to olive oil ice-cream. To drink, Group Bar Manager Nick Jackson will be upgrading a traditional martini using an infusion technique known as “fat-washing”.
Bar Daskal Maestros is a series offering guests practical, edible, and drinkable masterclasses from the team’s maestro friends in the industry. Each event will be edifying, entertaining and of course, delicious.
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