Mezcla

Mezcla has reappeared in Old Montreal with a very different playbook from its first life. Hidden behind Marcel Larrea’s Peruvian-Italian restaurant Capisco, the 24-seat tasting room works as a small, tightly controlled project where the chef can finally set the terms himself. The format is a blind, ten-course menu—around $129 before wine—built on Peruvian technique, French discipline, and whatever else the kitchen feels like exploring that week. Expect one-bite ideas alongside more elaborate plates, with ingredients ranging from razor clams to foie gras to alpaca. The space, designed by David Schmidt, keeps things intimate with a chef’s counter and dim, wood-heavy details. Open only a few nights a week, Mezcla is less a comeback than a reset: a chef reclaiming a name and shaping it into something leaner, stranger, and entirely his.