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More menu testing …

We’ve just had our second round of menu testing for the new winter menu to launch in early October and I have been dreaming of some of the dishes since… below are a few of my favourite. 

Vegetable Tacos

Our new menu will be more seasonal than before and I am just loving the introduction of roasted squash to the Autumn Veg Tacos along with autumn greens, ancho chillies and  other goodies.

Then as the weather gets colder we will introduce the winter greens and mushrooms – topped off with a little Feta which has a richer flavour. These will keep you happy and warm through the winter months…

And the best of them all…

Tommi and our team of chefs created a new dish that we are really hoping to get on the menu as a main course. Our fish always has to be sourced from the best sources – and at the moment we still have a bit of work getting the prices down on this dish. It may not get on this menu but we are working hard at it! This dish has lemon sole goujons (from an MSC certified source) in tortillas served with salad, tomato salsa, chipotle crema with rice and Wahaca coleslaw on the side…

We have a little more testing to do with some of the fish dishes as we experiment with grilled or baked options. We also aim to get as much MSC certified fish on our menu. We will update you on this shortly.

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Graffiti Canary Wharf – Heat 4

We’ve been delighted with the amount of votes so far. Please keep up the good work! Here’s the 4th heat in the contest, so please have a look and let us know who you think would be best to decorate our new restaurant in Canary Wharf. There will be a final set of artists uploaded tomorrow, so keep checking back to have your say on who goes into the final 10, from which 1 lucky winner will be chosen by the Wahaca Team.

25. Brian Masters

As a boy, I said to my father I want to be a painter. What I meant was an artist, but father got me a job as a painter/decorator. My true passion though is to create art. I am inspired to capture the essences of people’s souls and have developed my own style which some might describe as flamboyant. I am completely self-taught. My vision for the walls of Wahaca would be to showcase the passionate people of Mexico – eating, dancing, cooking in the markets and the streets – all thoroughly enjoying life to create a feeling of warmth and wellbeing.

26. Mike Newton

I was basically sick to death of walking around and seeing so many boarded up houses which i felt were an eye sore and in some ways depressing so i decided to tackle this by bringing life back to those houses with a mix of street art and photography. I would describe my work as environmental activism!

27. Miss Bonnita

I believe that my art is perfect for Wahaca!!

I am a experienced street artist and I also have the skills and experience as i have  worked with interior decorators on massive hand painted wall installations..  No space is too big.

I am also passionate about colour and design. I believe that public art has a responsibility to lift the soul and create a sense of happiness and in return vibrate that energy towards the viewer so that they can feeling positively enhanced.

28. Ministery of Design

I’m a qualified French artist from Paris and i’ve been painting on the wall since 90’s. My style is a mixture of street art, aerosol bombs, stencils and collages. I also paint canvases for a gallery in Paris. My influcenes are the fashion, electronic music, contemporay art and a lot of streets artists and graphists (Blek, Futura, José Parla, Kaws, Brainwash, Faile, Beejoir, Invader, Obey, M/M, Mode 2, Frost, Jr, Micallef and Banksy). I am the creator of the french brand MS Wear (graphic tee shirts, www.mswear.fr <blocked::http://www.mswear.fr/> ) and i’m the artisitic director of the shop Ministry Of Design Paris. I like to mix the pastels colours with the flashy. I think art is a color in the life. The Street art is The Life !

29. Octopus Ink

This is Octopus Ink from the famous Monorex collective

30. Conzo

Conza from the famous Monorex collective.

31. Alfa

Alpha, from the famous Monorex collective

32. Mu Dae

I work as a textile visual artist in London, basically I draw words and images with different materials and textile fabrics, sometimes I embroider on my art. I am very much influenced by pop art, street art and equally traditional craft art in the world, and also poetry writing is a huge part in my creative process.

33. Claroscuro

Claroscuro is a duo of two artists.  One coming from a background of fine arts and the other with a background in Graffiti.  The symbiosis of these two mediums is created with the objective of using art as a social and communicative tool.  Claroscuro has left murals and posters around Europe as well as participating in gallery shows and exhibiting in Barcelona London and New York.  Claroscuro would be honored to get busy on the commission for wahaca and would prepare something freeessshhh.”

34. Patricia Pisanelli

I like the idea of a square comprising lots of rectangles and a circle where people put their clothes in. I also like the idea of a woman swimming in purple, jelly-like liquid that could smell of flowers and sugar, and that is just another product on the shelf of the off license. One thing becomes another that refers to something else that had nothing to do with it. This big play with reality is what I’m interested in.

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We love a good challenge!

We were watching Jamie’s fantastic new show on Channel 4 last night where he travelled around the Mexican “barrio’s” of southern California. He was talking about our favourite subject – Mexican food!

Some of the recipes he explored looked fantastic, especially the mexican salads, the mole and the cactus…

But he did make one little mistake, he said you couldn’t get anything like it in the UK….!

Those of you that have been to Wahaca will know our Mexican salads full of radishes, hibiscus flowers, ancho chillies, mint and pumpkin seeds, and our delicious Chicken mole enchilada, not to mention the Cactus Tostadsas!

Jamie we’d love to invite you down to try all these and hope you will see that proper Mexican food is alive and well in the UK

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Graffiti Canary Wharf – Heat 3

Thanks to everyone who’s voted already, we’ve had a great response to our first two heats. Here’s the third set of entries that we’ve had for our graffiti competition. Have a look through and let us know whose work you think would be best for our new Canary Wharf restaurant.  Don’t forget to keep checking back every day this week, as we’ll be posting another set of artists work each day for you to chose from.

 Irony has a true talent for creeping around in the dark putting up pictures where people didn’t expect them. For him this is a good enough reason to dedicate every waking hour to that end. Embracing traditional letter graffiti concepts as well as stencil art Irony’s work is a mish-mash of visual ideas boiled down into something small enough to carry on the night bus without looking suspicious. Most notable are his beautiful paintings of woman and angels in gothic dresses and television creatures which while very pretty, have a strong anti-authoritarian air about them.

19. 44flavours

letters, colours, stamps, food, music, women, markers, spaces, walls, rough surfaces, the see, good weather, spraypaint, coffee, beer, travelling, singing, whistling, hanging out tuff, rough or just easy, laughing, working, paddeling, salat making, meet roasting, television, spitting, rap, whitest boy alive, notorious big, falling asleep, being loud, dreaming, fence climbing, whale watching, photography, ocean, annapurna, dogs n’ cats, ghosts, heavy metal, fishing, surfing, reading books, riding horses, painting trains, sleeping in trains, subways, pattern, buildings, trees, wind, forms, darth vader, instant soups, ants, flies to feed the ants, beat street, hands, lips, words, fonts, stealing ideas from the internet, listening to people in the subway, talking, tequila, well curated exhibitions, a good nap, the right ingredients for a meal, spontaneousness…

20. Kev

My work is inspired by energy, colour, punk, traveling, old wood cuts, aboriginal art, unity, countryside, collaboration, bold, crowds, upbeat, flow, graffiti, nature, cultures, outsider art and development.

  21. Fifteen Frames

 

Now you’ve seen all the entries, cast your vote on which you think would look best in Wahaca Canary Wharf. You can only vote once on each heat, so be careful who you chose and look out for the next set of entries over the next few days.

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Graffiti Canary Wharf – Heat 2

Here’s the second set of entries that we’ve had for our graffiti competition. Have a look through and cast your vote for which artist’s work you think will look best in our new Canary Wharf restaurant.  Don’t forget to keep checking back every day this week, as we’ll be posting another set of artists work each day for you to chose from.

11. ESKA

12. Ewan

I am inspired by anything that is new and interesting but that still holds on to its roots and heritage in its genre artistically. My drive to paint comes from a simplistic love of spraypaint as a medium and seeing my name in big letters.

13. Faye Chadburn

I am neither a street nor a graffitti artist. I only work with dulux paint and brushes… But i love to paint as big as possible in public spaces. The credit for most of my paintings over the last year goes out to the latino lands of Brasil and Argentina who welcomed me and my paintbrushes over the winter months. South america and its vibrancy will always influence my work…i owe it big time.. it has helped me find my creative path!! This is the main reason i feel i would be able to come up with something fantastic for Wahaca.

14.  Shylock 76

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