Camino to relaunch two former Ibérica restaurants

Spanish restaurant group Camino is to convert two former Ibérica sites to its main brand after buying them out of administration.

Camino acquired the restaurants in London’s Farringdon and Victoria from the rival tapas chain in December.

It will relaunch the Farringdon site as a Camino on 27 January with new furniture, signage and an extended list of wines and sherries.

Group executive chef Nacho del Campo has created new dishes for the Farringdon site, including baked crab with grilled sourdough; pressed suckling pig with roast celeriac purée, crackling, truffle and Amontillado jus; and dark chocolate cigar with almond crumble and Oloroso dulche de leche cream sauce.

It will seat 66 covers in the restaurant and 35 in the bar.

The two-storey restaurant in Victoria’s Zig Zag building will relaunch as a Camino in mid-February, seating 38 in the bar and 100 in the restaurant, while a 48-cover terrace will open in the summer months.

Camino was founded in 2007 by Nigel Foster and Richard Bigg and currently operates three sites across London in Shoreditch, Monument and King’s Cross.

In 2023, Bigg opened sister bar, Bar Rioja, dedicated to wines from the Rioja region of Spain, next to the King’s Cross site.

Ibérica’s three other restaurants in Leeds and London’s Canary Wharf and Marylebone have been closed by administrators.