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Chamako | Mexican Restaurant Barcelona

Restaurant Bar Mexican restaurant Cocktail bar Gluten free restaurant Fusion restaurant Mexican torta restaurant

Inventive nachos & tacos, plus ceviche & cocktails, in a convivial setting with eclectic decor. People often mention good, staff, service, drinks, Mexican, great, cocktails, recommend, friendly, amazing,


Address

08004, Carrer de Margarit, 18, 08004 Barcelona, Spain

Website

www.chamako.es

Contact

+34 935 29 34 88

Rating on Google Maps

4.50 (1.2K reviews)

Open on Google Maps

Working Hours

  • Tuesday: Closed
  • Wednesday: 8 PM to 12 AM
  • Thursday: 7 PM to 1 AM
  • Friday: 6 PM to 1 AM
  • Saturday: 1 to 4:30 PM, 7 PM to 1 AM
  • Sunday: 1 to 4:30 PM, 7 PM to 12 AM
  • Monday: 8 PM to 12 AM

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: good (13) staff (12) service (11) drinks (11) Mexican (10) great (10) cocktails (8) recommend (8) friendly (8) amazing (7)
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  • 5/5 Algimantė 6 months ago on Google
    Extremely interesting place. Owner fused asian and mexican cuisines. The food was amazing! We also ordered beautiful cocktail. This restaurant wasn't our first choice, but we were so happy to end up in this place. Owner was extremely polite too!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Kayla B. 1 year ago on Google
    Delicious food, delicious cocktails, and super nice staff! Everyone was very accommodating to our group with a lot of small children. We loved our experience here and would recommend it to anyone!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Matuš M. 11 months ago on Google
    Great experience! Food was absolutely flawless but staff was on another level. 10/10 thank you very much.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Ela J. 11 months ago on Google
    Modern take on Mexican food. Dishes are tasty and special, service is superb and deco is nice and comfortable. We are coming again for sure!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Pommes P. 1 year ago on Google
    Mexican-Asian fusion place with incredibly friendly staff, very tasty food and good cocktails. Only draw-back: the music was way too loud.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Julia S. 4 months ago on Google
    My favorite Mexican restaurant in Barcelona. The food was amazing, every dish I’ve tried was so yummy. I liked the mix of Mexican and Japanese cuisines. The oysters were great and fresh! Cocktails are the best! I’ve tried almost all of them and enjoyed each drink. The staff is super friendly and welcoming, they speak English and Spanish, and all the drinks and food they suggested were top! Later in the evening, they had a DJ, but it wasn’t too loud so it was comfortable to talk. The prices are good, it wasn’t expensive at all. Definitely will come back!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Ray Ordóñez R. 1 year ago on Google
    I went on the opening day this week and the experience was fantastic! All the drinks and the food we had was súper tasty, my lady loved it. Not only that but the service and the work team seemed to have such a good energy, we even got a couple of extra drinks as a gift. Lovely evening, I will definetelly be back! Thank you!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Lizz L. 2 years ago on Google
    Loved the margarita! There's no salt on the rim, because I ordered that way, so the awesome female bartender did it right ❤️ My friend had a mescal/ aperol based cocktail. Both very delicious! We ordered the surprise egg, and yummy.. Go taste for yourself! Only downside was that there was a very eager waiter who was,I think a little bit bored, so he was nervously pacing and tapping his feet 😅
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Nicky P. 1 year ago on Google
    I love nachos but these have been the best nachos I ever had, we just had peking duck nachos and they are AMAZING. Not some crisps with topping but crispy nachos all over with topping all over. Super super it had meat, tasty sauce and was just out of this world. The staff is super here. Very friendly with all languages (English/Spanish/ not sure what it was maybe Portugese). Top kever service, top level drinks and food.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 David C. 1 year ago on Google
    Nice Mexican restaurant & cocktail Bar Chamako is located in the heart of Poble Sec. They serve Mexican food, with a modern and Western touch. The food is quite good, and the staff is very friendly. The atmosphere is nice and the prices, very reasonable.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 harkoonen 1. 1 year ago on Google
    Amazing experience, food was great and the drinks were even better. And if you add the amazing service provided by Victor and Judith it was 10/10 dinner. Highly recommend
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Javier M. 5 months ago on Google
    Great value for money! It’s a Mexican restaurant but fused with some Japanese dishes that makes the offerings much more interesting! As mentioned, prices are really good and staff is very nice in general. We will come back again!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Vee 6 months ago on Google
    This was a huge surprise! Normally, when I see fushion places and especially such clearly "hipster" venues, I don't have high hopes. But Chamako actually succeeded well. Yes, it's got that cool, edgy street art hipster vibe. There is graffiti and pasteups on the walls. Neon lighting. Swear words. Very young staff with young(ish) customers. All the hallmarks of some quirky Asian fushion joint to appeal to zoomers and millennials. The thing is, it can work. Not every venture like this is bound to be cringe... if the food hits. And it does. There are a lot of Mexican places in Barcelona. I don't know why exactly, nor how good they generally are, but there are a lot. This one, I am guessing, is different. The mainly Japanese-inspired fushion actually works. There is the guacamole "show," which is essentially tableside guac making. It's quirky and fun for the right sorts of people, but a little awkward for others. If you don't want to be the centre of attention, just order the guac without the show. But if you don't get the show, you'll miss out on the AMAZING spicy dark chocolate truffle. I probably would have added more lime and pepper for myself, but it was a solid guac and the chips were excellent. The ceviche was totally delicious! Very refreshing. Acidity was perfect and the fish incredibly fresh and smooth. The only nachos we could order were the Nipon style because unfortunately every other option had truffle oil in the cheese. Why??? That was probably the biggest disappointment. I don't know why people like it, but there should be some dishes with it and some without because some people hate it. It's like cilantro. The pork cheek tacos were far less Asian fushion and more Greek fushion. But they were tasty all the same, and the meat succulent. I didn't try the cocktails cos it wasn't that sort of night, but I would have liked to. They have a very large bar. Overall, we had a surprisingly good time and would definitely try it again.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Shaun A. 7 months ago on Google
    This place is the best Mexican we’ve ever had and the service was also great. We had the Ceviche, Nachos and pulled pork Tacos. Although we didn’t have it the guacamole (and show) looked incredible. I highly recommend this place!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Brescan D. 4 years ago on Google
    Best michelada I've had in Barcelona. Staff is very friendly and always on their toes. The ambiance supports a very energetic feel and the interior lighting is very cosy. I will always make excuses to come here, thank you.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Borja B. 6 years ago on Google
    If you like the “tapas” format of eating, this is another place for it in Barcelona. We were not specially surprised by any dish in particular, but we will definitely come back in order to give it another try, just in case we did bad choices. But for sure one recommendation, leave some room for the desserts. Edit: Went there for the second time, but I can conclude that isn’t worth it. It took two hours to have all the dishes, and also worth saying that it’s pretty expensive.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Cailey M. 8 months ago on Google
    I can’t recommend this place enough! The Nacho Macho was incredible and so was the guacamole. Very very very happy, wish I could eat it everyday!!! Staff were absolutely lovely too. We had a great experience overall!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Veronica I. 7 months ago on Google
    A great discovery. I loved the vibes and the food! We took the ceviche and the Guacamole (show) and the taste was incredible. Great cocktails and they have live dj set. Really recommend to go there.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Tomás T. 1 year ago on Google
    excellent service! food was amazing and really good cocktails! the vibe of this restaurant are fantastic! if you go in barcelona you must come to visit CHAMAKO!

  • 5/5 Byenchit W. 6 months ago on Google
    I loved everything about this place - from the food, the service, the staff, ambiance. Everything was top! Could easily be one of my new favorite Mexican restaurants to eat in Barcelona ✨❤️ Tip - if you can, try to have one of the deserts there (totally worth it) 😮‍💨

  • 4/5 Michelle O. 10 months ago on Google
    The food is delicious. We were a group so we ordered from every part of the menu a few dishes, everything was delicious except for the tacos. We all agreed that all that we tried was incredible, but the tacos we didn’t liked it; and we ordered 8 different tacos so we tried quite a few. The cocktails really good and the service increible

  • 5/5 Felix K. 1 year ago on Google
    Perfect spot for great food and drinks with friends, I loved the seating outside, the staff was super friendly and fun, and the cocktails perfect. Can highly recommend.

  • 3/5 Kirsty F. 1 year ago on Google
    This place was amazing when they did tapas. Then they changed to Mexican and it was still great (ok, I missed the tapas but truffle cheese nachos = delicious). Recently the quality has dropped a lot. Food comes delayed, some plates are cold, and the drinks taste watery. I want to love this place, but the quality needs to improve to warrant the price.

  • 5/5 Alex B. 1 year ago on Google
    Myself, my wife, our 2 kids under two years and my sister with her 2 kids under two years found this place after a long, eventful day full of difficult things that had compounded upon each other. Sasha Bar was such an amazing way to end the day! The food was great, the drinks were even better and the staff was so friendly and helpful! They didn't mind our tired rambunctious children and were very accommodating. The food was so tasty and very reasonably priced. The drinks were also reasonably priced and you could tell that the bartender really took pride in the presentation of the drinks too! The vibes were also very fun and unique. We absolutely loved this place and highly recommend it to anyone wanting great food and great service!

  • 5/5 Miss S. 4 years ago on Google
    Fabulous gin cocktails. Never had a gin tasted so good!!! Great service, smiling faces only. Cosy location.

  • 5/5 Zsani V. 2 years ago on Google
    One of the best restaurants in my life, nachos was incredible (I ate Pekín), Gin Tonics are super interesting, serving is super nice, I love the atmosphere, the decoration is really funny and its a very comfy place, pleasant music, everything was just perfect:)

  • 2/5 Jasdip D. 2 years ago on Google
    The food was good, but portions were pretty small for the price, and the drinks are pricey. The reason for the low stars is the customer experience - we came in on a Saturday at 830 pm, and the host said that since we didn't have reservations we can't sit inside (but the tables are reserved) - half the restaurant was empty at this point. We agreed to sit outside (which was completely empty), when we asked to sit in the corner he informed us it 'just' got reserved, and could sit at another table. This would all be okay, if the place had eventually filled up. We left at 10pm and the corner table was still empty and the restaurants was still half empty. As we were leaving, he gave another walk in group the corner table. We did give him this feedback as we paid, his answer was vague and repeated tables were reserved. We definitely did not feel valued as a customer as we sat outside in the cold beside a restaurant with countless empty tables inside for 1.5 hours without seeing the place fill up with customers as assumed when he didn't let us have a seat inside.

  • 3/5 Domenico T. 6 years ago on Google
    The dinner was good. We tasted several dishes. They quality was good but small quantity. I would not recommend it to people who eat a lot. We booked through Kviar getting a discount of 30% on the menu. The price without the discount was possibly too high for what we had.

  • 4/5 Pia F. 2 years ago on Google
    The location is cute & the service is really nice and the staff is friendly! The food was amazing and I just give 4 out of 5 stars because of the price!


Call +34 935 29 34 88 Open on Google Maps

Amenities


  • Pets
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed inside
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed outside
  • Parking
    • ✓️ Paid parking lot
    • ✓️ Paid street parking
    • ✓️ Somewhat difficult to find a space
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Hard liquor
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Healthy options
    • ✓️ Late-night food
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible entrance
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible restroom
    • ✗ Wheelchair accessible parking lot
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
    • ✓️ Counter service
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Takeout
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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