The Barcelona-based family group Somos Esencia is stepping on the gas. Dedicated to the restaurant business, its turnover will increase by almost 18% in 2023 to 17 million euros. In 2024, it expects to reach around 30 million euros in a year marked by growth. In February, it renovated a city classic, the Bauma tapas bar, located very close to the Casa de les Punxes.

In the coming months, it plans to launch two more new restaurants. It will be quite a milestone for a young project founded by one of the former partners of Tragaluz, Xavier Mitats. When in 2019 the Miura fund became the majority shareholder of Tragaluz, Mitats wanted to form a new group on the basis of Agua, an existing restaurant that did not join the operation. 

In early 2020, just before the outbreak of Covid, they opened in the Mercat del Ninot the second local, Tierra Brava, and at the end of that year, still with many restrictions, it was the turn of Brisa, in the Palau de Mar. In Barceloneta, they also have Barraca. "We are in very good locations, some restaurants are our own and others we manage, but we are always shareholders," says Álex Mitats, from the second generation. He has just joined the family business as managing director.