Transportive Mexican restaurants
The El Pastor family is a small group of Mexican restaurants in London, inspired by the decade the founders spent in Mexico City, running cult nightclub, El Colmillo and searching for the city’s best al pastor taco. The restaurants are committed to using the best, sustainable ingredients and making tortillas in-house, daily from Mexican heritage corn. El Pastor is deeply invested in sourcing the most wonderful mezcals and tequilas and making every day a fiesta.
Our Locations
EP BATTERSEA
Battersea Power Station Unit 21-22, SW11 8EZ
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri: 12pm – 11pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-11pm
Brunch is available to order 10am – 12.30pm, Saturday and Sunday.
EP STONEY STREET
9-3 Stoney St,
London
info@tacoselpastor.co.uk
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri: 12-3pm, 5-11pm
Sat: 12-4pm, 6-11pm
Sun: 12-3pm, 5-10pm
CASA PASTOR
Coal Drops Yard
N1C 4DQ
info@tacoselpastor.co.uk
Opening Times:
Mon: 5pm-11pm
Tues-Weds: 12pm-11pm
Thurs-Fri: 12pm-11.30pm
Sat: 12pm-3pm, 5pm-11.30pm
Sun: 12pm-10pm
EP SOHO
66-70 Brewer Street
London W1F 9UP
Opening Times:
Mon: 5pm – 11pm
Tues: 12pm-11pm
Weds-Sat: 12pm – 1.30am
Sun: 12-8pm
Mezcaleria Colmillo is open Wednesday to Saturday evenings, with DJs each night.
Bloody maría, but not as you know it. 😉
Our souped-up version comes with a medley of fried chicken, fried prawn and a pickle gherkin, for health.
A direct cap doff to chef Salvador ‘Gallo’ Orozco’s baroque approach at @micompachava and the perfect antidote to the night before..
On our weekend brunch menu, exclusive to EP Battersea.
Salsas are a cornerstone of Mexican dining and an integral part of taco eating. We make ours fresh each day, from the best available ingredients. ⚡️
Our salsa verde fresca is made by hand blending together tomatillos, onion, garlic gloves and heaps of fresh coriander. Fresh whole serrano chillies are buzzed separately in a blender for punch, before being mixed through the salsa base.
A bright, herbaceous number with slow-building heat, we love spooned over an al pastor taco. 🔥
The weekend is finally and sight and we’re setting the tempo with tacos, margs and tunes on Casa Pastor’s lively terrace. ⚡️⚡️
See you there?
For us, Chilaquiles is THE Mexican breakfast, all the more so if the night before was a little…Strenuous. A deceptively simple combo of totopos and salsa verde (or roja), garnished with a range of delights that vary according to region and family recipe. Thank you Elena Reygadas for showing us the way forward is Burrata!
On our weekend brunch menu, exclusive to EP Battersea. 🔥🔥
Spiced tempura tenderstem broccoli tacos, in the making. 🥦
We marinate tenderstem broccoli in chilli de arbol oil, then lightly fry until crisp in a spiced batter. Served on blue corn tortillas with caramelised onion, chilli de arbol salsa, vegan halloumi and coriander.
Find them on the specials across the Pastors, for one more week. 🔥
Summer is that you? We’re beating the heat with frozen margs and zippy ceviches on EP Stoney’s newly spruced up terrace. 🌞
Open for dinner from 5pm. ⚡️
Tortilla, salsa, eggs — a match made in heaven. 🍳
Our huevos rancheros are made with crisp tortillas, made in-house daily, layered with our deep and smoky salsa morita made using morita chillies, chipotle and braised tomatillo and topped with two fried eggs.
Available as part of our weekend brunch menu, exclusive to EP Battersea.
See you Saturday?
📸 @teodellatorre
BTS with Executive Chef @marvin_jones_chef, making EP’s cult classic the mushroom taco. 🍄🟫
Oaxaca-style cheese is sizzled on the plancha until crisp, topped with confit mushrooms and served on warm corn tortillas with chile de arbol, white onion, pumpkin seeds and coriander.
Earlier this year, we joined our longstanding partners @tamoamx in Tlaxcala, Mexico, to meet the farmers preserving and cultivating native Mexican corn. The Tamoa cooperative seeks out these increasingly few farming communities, linking them with restaurants in Mexico and beyond, and ensuring they are compensated fairly for protecting the country’s bio-cultural heritage. We are incredibly proud to be using this high quality heirloom Mexican corn at El Pastor for our fresh corn tortillas, made in-house daily. 🌽
Ixtenco, in the southeast of Tlaxcala, is a traditional Otomi community, which has conserved its agricultural economic base and traditions. Doña Teresa and Don Cornelio welcomed us warmly into their home for tamales steamed in corn husks and a lesson on how to make atole agrio, a drink made from fermented black corn with cinnamon and sugar. Ixtenco actually means “atole agrio drank during celebrations” in Otomi.
Many thanks to @tamoamx for the opportunity to meet those producing the maize we use, and a chance to share a meal, stories and knowledge together – we’re so grateful to have been part of this moment and connection.
📸 ❤️ @analorenzana
Our drink of choice for the weekend. ⚡️
Mezcal Verde is shaken with aquafaba, lemon juice and sugar syrup.
Fancy tequila or pisco instead? Just ask. 😘
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The El Pastor family is a small group of Mexican taquerias in London, inspired by the decade the founders spent in Mexico City, running cult nightclub, El Colmillo and searching for the city’s best al pastor taco.
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