La Puerta
The doorway
- Espadín joven, Oaxaca
- Espadín reposado
- House mezcal de pechuga-style cream
3 pours — £18
Mexico City energy — London soil
Corn. Fire. Mezcal.
A modern Mexican kitchen and mezcaleria in Hackney. Heirloom corn nixtamalised every morning, everything kissed by wood-fire, and one of London's deepest agave lists.
Nixtamal daily
The old field, the new kitchen
La Milpa
A milpa is the ancient Mexican field where corn, beans and squash grow together — each one feeding the others. It's how we cook: nothing alone, everything in conversation.
Every morning we nixtamalise heirloom corn from Oaxaca and Tlaxcala — bolita, cónico, olotillo — the slow lime-water way, the way it's been done for three thousand years. Then we press, char and serve it within the hour.
Maíz
Heirloom landrace corn, stone-ground in house.
Frijol
Black beans simmered overnight with avocado leaf.
Calabaza
Squash, blossom and seed — root to flower.
Three sisters, one table
Heirloom corn
Pressed to order
Since 7am
Tortilleria Milpa
From the wood-fire
Cocina
Wood-fire only
Sip. Never shoot.
Mezcaleria
Forty-plus agave spirits poured in clay copitas with orange and worm salt. Our list runs from gateway espadín to wild tobalá and once-a-year pechuga. Ask for a flight — salud.
100% Agave
Tierra y Humo
Earth and smoke
- Tobalá, wild-harvested
- Cuishe, clay-pot distilled
- Tepeztate, 25-year agave
3 pours — £26
Pechuga & Rarities
The vault
- Pechuga, single village
- Arroqueño, 18-year agave
- Whatever the maestro sent us
3 pours — £38
Loud plates, louder room
La Mesa
Book the whole room.
Sixty seated, ninety standing, one wood-fire and a mezcal trolley that does laps. Birthdays, weddings, product launches, Tuesdays — if it deserves a fiesta, it deserves this room.
- Feasting menus from £45 a head
- Agave pairings and copita service
- DJ booth and late licence until 1am
Hackney, London
Find us
12 Sidworth StreetLondon Fields, Hackney
London E8 3SD Book a table
Half the room is held for walk-ins. Come hungry.
Hours
- Mon
- Cerrado
- Tue — Thu
- 17:00 — 23:00
- Fri
- 17:00 — 00:00
- Sat
- 12:00 — 00:00
- Sun
- 12:00 — 18:00
- Tortilleria
- Daily from 07:00