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I think it probably comes from a sort of certain amount of creative itch where we get excited about restaurants or things we want to do and get on and do them.

I mean, it's, you know, we started with the Spanish restaurants with Barofina, obviously.

And actually, we opened the first Barofina and we were meant to be opening a second Barofina.

And by mistake, we were sort of wandering around London, kept walking past Crovaris, which was at that stage owned by Barco Pier White.

And he, and the place was sort of, you know, he'd fallen out in love with it and it was falling to pieces and empty and blah, blah, blah.

And we just fell in love with the building.

And so did that by mistake.

I suppose what we try and do at Heartscape is always do restaurants that come from lived experience.

So obviously, you know, my parents or my mum grew up in Mallorca.

The first language was Spanish in Mallorquín.

So, you know, we had the Spanish collection.

I lived in Barcelona.

um obviously i've lived in the uk all my life apart from my time abroad so you know british restaurants it makes sense for us um and then el pastor obviously mexican restaurants i started out actually with a nightclub in mexico city in the 90s so i spent five years in mexico and my business partner 10 years in mexico so you you know we'd We had Spain, then we fell in love with the building, which ended up being Quo Vadis.

Also was already called Quo Vadis, but we ended up taking it over.

And then because we, you know, been in love with Mexican food and felt like we had a really good understanding of it.

And at that stage, there were very, very few Mexican restaurants in the UK.

It felt like a good opportunity to do Mexican as well.