2026 Square Opening of the Year: Legado

The National Restaurant Awards were launched in 2007 to celebrate the UK eating-out scene. The Top 100 is produced from an academy of more than 200 chefs, restaurateurs, food writers: the UK is split into 11 regions, voters nominate seven restaurants they have visited in the previous 12 months, those weighted votes form the national ranking. The specialist awards sit alongside that ranking and identify category leaders in service, drinks, sustainability, regional excellence, notable new openings. For the 2026 The Square Opening of the Year page, Pearl treats Legado as a single-winner specialist award rather than a ranked list. Legado is Nieves Barragan Mohacho's second London restaurant, opened with JKS Restaurants after Sabor. The 2026 award highlights a modern, regionally broad Spanish restaurant with whole-animal butchery, a large open kitchen, a menu that moves beyond the most familiar Spanish references.

The 2026 The Square Opening of the Year page on Pearl captures the single official specialist-award winner, Legado, links that recognition back to a live restaurant profile.

In the 2026 National Restaurant Awards, The Square Opening of the Year went to Legado in Shoreditch, London. Legado is Nieves Barragan Mohacho's second London restaurant, opened with JKS Restaurants after Sabor. The 2026 award highlights a modern, regionally broad Spanish restaurant with whole-animal butchery, a large open kitchen, a menu that moves beyond the most familiar Spanish references. Pearl uses this page for searchers who are looking for the specific award category, the winning restaurant, the broader 2026 National Restaurant Awards context.