C. Plocia, 2
11005 Cádiz
13:30 – 16:30 · 21:00 – 23:30
Closed on Mondays and Sunday evenings
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The restaurant
Produce, first.
Salicornia is Juan Höhr’s dream: a welcoming place for produce-led cooking, on Calle Plocia in Cádiz since 2016.
Juan Höhr, cook
Without artifice.
For Juan Höhr, the most important thing is the raw ingredient: the produce, its origin and its season.
He chooses every supplier himself: he tries, and if he likes it, he carries on. With the years, friendship.
“If the produce is perfect, my job is not to cover it with artifice.”
Juan Höhr, cook
His story
From biology to the stove.
Some vocations arrive late and stay forever.
Juan Höhr studied Biology in Córdoba, but what truly called him was elsewhere: the kitchen. In time he left everything behind to give himself to it.
His path began in Seville, at the hospitality school. It was where the woman who is now his wife was teaching.
Once his studies were done, he headed north to keep learning: first San Sebastián, then León, to the restaurant Bodega El Capricho. He holds immense gratitude to José Gordon, who gave him the chance to work there, and to his great friend Fredi (Alfredo), who patiently taught him the craft of the grill.
Some travelling adventures followed, and the road brought him back to Seville, where he worked in several restaurants. It was there, in other people’s kitchens, that an idea began to take shape: to open a restaurant of his own in his home town, Cádiz.
That is how the adventure of Salicornia began.
A daily gesture
The anchovy, one by one.
They arrive salted and every day they are cleaned by hand, one by one. The best, they say, is the spring anchovy, the one carrying roe: more fat and more flavour.
Restaurante Salicornia ha recibido una ayuda de la Unión Europea con cargo al Programa Operativo FEDER de Andalucía 2014-2020, financiada como parte de la respuesta de la Unión a la pandemia de COVID-19 (REACT-UE), para compensar el sobrecoste energético de gas natural y/o electricidad a pymes y autónomos especialmente afectados por el incremento de los precios del gas natural y la electricidad provocados por el impacto de la guerra de agresión de Rusia contra Ucrania.