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Wahaca wins award at the London Restaurant Festival

Last night Mark and Tommi accepted on behalf of Wahaca the award for Discovery – for a restaurant pushing the boundaries in its style of cuisine. The 6 awards were judged and chosen by a foodie panel including Fay Maschler, Giles Coren, Tom Parker Bowles and Charles Campion. We were really excited to be part of this inaugural festival and look forward to doing more and more with it over the next few years. Thanks to everyone who voted for us.

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Monica Patino at Borough Market

Carolyn and I headed down to Borough Market to meet and taste some of Monica Patino’s seafood dishes yesterday for a special lunch break.

Going to Borough Market was already such a treat and as we arrived a little early we checked out some of the other shops and stalls, got stuck in Neals Yard sampling their delicious cheeses, eyeing up Brindisa’s chorizo and then the German Deli which Carolyn was especially excited about… what a great place to visit every day for lunch and to do your food shopping at!

Monica Patino, the celebrity chef , has become a household name in Mexico thanks to the popularity of her daily cookery TV programme. She has three restaurants in Mexico City – La Taberna del Leon, Bistro M/P and Naos. Yesterday and today though she is cooking mexican seafood dishes and creating her own pop up Marisqueria with the Mexican Tourist Board – a great way to promote Mexican food and travel.

Everyone seemed to be enjoying the free food and beer – and hopefully got a few more people trying some good mexican flavours for the first time. The crab tostadas, the shrimp ceviche soup were good and nice to try but the sea bass ceviche with a salsa verde with olives, capers and lots of lime was my favourite as had a really interesting flavour.

Anyway, do try and pop along today before 15.30 if your close by as a nice change from the norm – hopefully the mariachi are still playing!