Tag: Mexican
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Criollo (breakfast)
The beginning of the end of our time in Oaxaca. The first part of the day, we had a quick breakfast at Criollo again (I had the negro concha and the huevos ranchero and I don’t normally even eat breakfast!). https://criollo.mx/
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Memelas Doña Vale
We also stopped at Dona Vale for some memelas for lunch. John and I were seated at the counter with Chef Alex. We had our drinks, a fruity smoothie type drink and a hot chocoloate (con agua). We were both not very hungry from so much food yesterday, so we had a modest amount of…
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Casa Oaxaca el Restaurante
Dinner was at Casa Oaxaca, one of the best restaurants in Oaxaca led by Chef Alejandro Ruiz. One unique local dish was the tostada with ants, grashhoppers, and worms (it seems we had an insect recurring theme today…). I can’t say I found the tostada as tasty as other tostadas with other proteins, but I…
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Criollo (cooking class)
Cooking lesson to make salsa, tortilla, quesadilla, tostadas, and more. Placing tortillas onto the comal is a lot harder than it looks! https://criollo.mx/
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Liquen Oaxaca
Private dinner on the rooftop of the restaurant. Chef Chucho joined us for dinner and took us through the process of tasting mezcal and talked us through dinner. He was a very artistic and passionate soul who puts so much into his work. After dinner, he DJ’d a bit and kept pouring us so many…
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El Parián Atelier
Private dinner at El Parian with Chef Israel https://www.facebook.com/p/El-Pari%C3%A1n-Atelier-100088683685869https://www.instagram.com/el_parian_atelier/?hl=en
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Maguey y Maíz
We had a dinner at Maguey & Maiz (which means agave and corn) with Chef Sabas where we had the restaurant entirely to ourselves. https://magueyymaiz.com
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Pujol
Tonight’s dinner was at Pujol, probably one of the most internationally recognized restaurants in CDMX. We almost didn’t dine here at all because I missed booking a reservation 2 months in advance because I didn’t initially understand that their web site reservation doesn’t initially show what is and isn’t available until you actually try to…
