Enrique Olvera is the most thoughtful (and famous) chef in Mexico. You can meet him and his family on Netflix CHEF'S TABLE series, shot in 2016. Now, besides Pujol in DF, there are new Enrique Olvera restaurants, like Cosme, Eno, Manta and Criollo.
With a total of 17 restaurants, Olvera and his business partner Santiago Perez are bringing precious ingredients like heirloom corn and sustainable seafood to less high-end places.
The duo now operate both high-end contemporary Mexican restaurants like Mexico City’s Pujol, New York’s Cosme and L.A.’s Damian -- along with a growing group of more casual spots under the flag of Atla.
Atla. an “everyday Mexican” restaurant that started in New York, recently expanded to Los Angeles with the opening of a 7,200-square-foot breezy Venice space that Olvera thinks could be a prototype for fhe future. A new taqueria, Tacos Atla, hits Williamsburg, Brooklyn this year.
But Olvera and Perez also have more new fine-dining -- two more New York restaurants and another Mexico City spot next year.
"We really want to further build our presence both in New York and Mexico City," Perez told a reporter, "our largest markets. Depending on how the taqueria and the Atla sit-down concept work, we’re going to push the accelerator a little further.”
Casamata already goes through close to a ton of masa and an average of 2,000 tortillas per restaurant every day.
Wow! Send them to San Miguel de Allende!
