Mimo Bar at San Martin Market - Honest San Sebastián

Mimo is a company who offers products around gastronomy, either offering cooking courses or arranging typical basque outings to sidrerías (cider factories and restaurants), pintxo-tours, etc. Ironically, its founder is not Basque but English, so all of this is mainly oriented for the English-speaking public.

His latest bet, so far in the testing phase is a pop up bar on the street floor of the San Martin Market, adopting the model of other food markets – San Miguel in Madrid, La Boquería in Barcelona or Borough Market in London – in other words, classic markets refurbished and now offering Gourmet and seasonal products.

The menu varies weekly, sometimes even daily, always depending on the products available in the market stalls. Therefore, we can find special things like guisantes lágrima (tears shaped peas, something almost considered like green caviar) Cantabrian anchovies or super fresh sardines.

Open only during the weekend from 7 pm, until September 2019. Maybe it will be renewed for longer but so far its future is unknown.

The worse part… their prices, too expensive for locals, specially wines. As it’s mainly oriented for tourists, its prices have also been elevated to match their budgets and pockets. Clearly well handled and genuine basque but not precisely a typical basque priced.