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Can you help us find our Mayor?

Those of you who are in the know about foursquare, will probably understand what we mean with this post. For those of you who aren’t, please don’t think we’re desperately trying to hunt down Borris and invite him for a taco (although if you’re out there Borris, we’d love to talk to you about introducing Mexican style VW’s to our taxi ranks).

Foursquare is a great site that helps you to find new ways to explore your city by checking in on-line when you visit restaurants and bars, and linking up with friends to discover their favourite places to go out. It’s also a great way to pick up tips that only people in the know would be able to tell you – Apparently our “Frijoles are off the chain” according to James M (thanks,we agree), and One Tamarind Margarita isn’t enough for Fergus M!

Now, we’re pretty new to this site, and are hoping for your help in tracking down the Mayor of each of our restaurants (These are the guys who have checked in the most times, and basically love us so much they can’t stop coming back). We know who they are, but can’t seem to contact them.

Can you help? Do you know these Wahaca super fans? If you do, we’d love you to send us a tweet @wahaca, or post a comment below and tell us, so we can get their details from you.

Do you know these men?

Nick H

Richard S (Although this may not be a true likeness)

David G

So… Nick H (Mayor of Wahaca Covent Garden), Richard S (Mayor off Wahaca Canary Wharf) and David G (Mayor of Wahaca Westfield) Come on down! We’d like to invite you to a very special dinner tasting our new summer menu.

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Summer menu tasting and sampling with the wahaca team

Win the chance to join us at our new summer menu tasting evening!

Hooray, hooray, hooray, the days are finally getting lighter and warmer as the memories of those snowy cold days drift away…

To celebrate the coming of summer and our new summer menu that launches on Wednesday 5th May we are holding a small menu tasting event on Tuesday 4th May in the evening with the two founders of Wahaca.

With some new delicious and exciting dishes we can’t wait to get everyones feedback and get everyone trying them!

We would love to include some of our customers and twitter followers in this small intimate tasting as well as the wahaca team and some other friends.

To win the chance to join us for the evening next tuesday and try the new menu before anyone else does – all you have to do is answer this question!

What is Mexico celebrating this year? Send your comment to us through commenting on this post. We will contact the winners with all the details asap. Good luck and hope to meet you next week!

If you can’t make it next week we hope to hear your thoughts on the new menu from Wednesday onwards.

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Mexican Morsels: Stunning Post about Xochimilco Market

The Mija Chronicles

Sometimes you see a post and gasp. We challenge you not to be bowled over by this post by The Mija Chronicles about the vivid colours, smells and sights of Xochimilco Market just south of Mexico City. In particular look out for the frog leg tamales, pigs brains, gorditas and blue corn tortillas.

We’ve got a few posts up our sleeves about our trip around Oaxaca’s amazing markets and are looking forward to sharing them with you soon. There really are few things in life more invigorating than a Mexican market in full swing.

For more information about Xochimilco Market have a look at Wikitravel.

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La Linea latin music festival starts today!

When it comes to music, nothing get’s us moving quite like those Latino beats, and so we’re shaking our behinds with excitement at the thought that the La Linea latin music festival in back in London from today until the end of the month. In its tenth year La Linea is funkier, punkier, rootsier and spunkier than ever. It’s all about what Latin Music can be, has been and very much is.

To give you a taster of what’s on offer, let us tell you that Kid Creole & The Coconuts at the Barbican promises to be as much fun as you can have with your clothes on with their incomparable back catalogue and hyperactive technicolour show . Viva El Mariachi, also at the Barbican, will be an evening of high Latino passion, cathartic sobbing into your cerveza and surprise guests, all dedicated to the cause of mariachi. Salsa Celtica, with fine musicians from north of the border and south of the equator, bring their fiddles, whistles and bongos to the South Bank. Mexican guitarist Morgan Syzmanski’s invigorating Machaca returns to La Linea with some world premieres and a repertoire ranging from Villa-Lobos to Piazzolla; and Tango Siempre do their thing with special guest Gotan Project’s virtuoso Bandoneon player, Victor Villena. Barcelona’s Amparo Sanchez first appeared at La Linea leading her band Amparanoia and most recently as part of Spanish Bombs. Here she showcases her new project, Tucson Havana, on which she collaborated with Calexico. Kevin Johansen played La Linea previously as support, this time he’s headlining his own Jazz Café show alongside a mouth-accordion playing newspaper cartoonist with an overhead projector as La Linea once again proves that there’s more to Latin music than maracas and salsa dance classes.

To fine out more about it, and book your tickets for some of the best Latino music on the planet today, visit their site here.

And if you’re lucky enough to be going along, please let us know all about it by dropping in with a reply below.

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Mexican Morsels: Creamy Avocado Salsa and the Battle of the Tamale

inside the beast by Darwin Bell via creative common on Flickr

With the temperatures soaring and planes doing the opposite, we thought we’d bring you some Mexican flavour.

We spied a great post about Creamy Avocado Salsa over on Mexican Foodie’s blog…

“If you like avocado you will love this creamy, rich fresh avocado salsa. The flavor of the ripe avocado shines and is enhanced by the other ingredients like lime, cilantro and serrano chili… Typically, you would use the salsa on chicken filled taquitos or flautas. It also works really well on shredded beef tacos or tostadas. I have been told that it also goes well with a nice piece of fish although I haven’t tried it that way. You might want to.”

Toasty, Tasty Tamales!

We also enjoyed reading about the epic Battle of the Tamales over on A Little Cup of Mexican Hot Chocolate. If the idea of tamales is making you feel peckish then find out how to make them here. Although you might need a whole day it will definitely be worth it.

Thank you very much to Darwin Bell and -Snugg- for the photos which we found in the Creative Commons section of Flickr.

For other great tamale pictures check out this Flickr group.

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If a picture’s worth a thousand words, how many do we get for our flickr group?

As you well know, we love to hear what you think of Wahaca, but recently some of you have been going the extra mile and sharing your Wahaca photos on-line – Extra points for you, well done. 

To make it even easier to share your photographic masterpieces, we’ve set up a Flickr group that allows anyone who has any Wahaca related photos to upload them to one place for us all to marvel at.  Why don’t you have a look and get uploading some of your own shots either of you having a great old time in the restaurant, or enjoying the wonders of growing some of our chilli seeds?

Here’s a selection of recent uploads that we love.  Hats off to you, you make us look wonderful.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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Mexican Morsels: Prawn Sandwiches for Easter

This week we’re going to focus on a great site that we’ve stumbled across called Mexconnect. It’s an online magazine that posts regular content about life in Mexico. We think it has been designed mainly to make us jealous!

The first article is by Daniel Wheeler, one of Mexconnect’s fantastic food columnists. He describes some tasty alternatives to red meat during the Catholic festival of Lent.

Another of their columnists is Karen Hursh Graber. She has written some delectable posts about spring berries (which are probably more autumn berries for us in the UK), but given the cold weather here, we’ll wait for a more suitable time to link to those and instead link to this article she has written on the cuisine of Oaxaca. At the end of her article she links to some great Oaxacan recipes.

The third article that we want to link to is a calendar of Mexican food festivals. If the articles above are tempting you across the Atlantic, this will be a good guide as to what you can expect in terms of culinary fiestas!

Finally this week, we found this article from Rancho Gordo who grow New World products in the USA. In this post they cook a dish from our favourite Mexican chef, Diana Kennedy.

If you see any interesting morsels from Mexico, please let us know!

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Semana Santa & Exploding Judas Effigies

Easter is a big deal in Mexico where over 90% of the population is Catholic. The Easter period, known as Semana Santa, starts on Palm Sunday (Domingo de Ramos) and comes to an end on Easter Sunday (Domingo de Pascua). But unlike in the UK, where Easter is mainly about chocolate eggs, roast lamb and school holidays, Mexicans approach Semana Santa with the explosive zeal that you’ll also see in Día de los Muertos. You can read more about the ins and outs of the celebrations and the culture of passion plays on Go Mexico.

But the most fun part about Easter in Mexico is the ritual explosion of Judas effigies. It takes place on Holy Saturday and is supposed to represent revenge for the betrayal of Jesus. Apparently the ritual was banned in Guadalajara after a few people died. Just have a look at the video of a witch being blown up below to get a flavour!

Semana Santa is also a riotously vibrant time for Mexican food. For wonderful stories about ice cream made from the ice from Mount Popocatépetl as well as recipes for the likes of Horchata, Agua de Chia and Pambazos head over to this article on Mexconnect by Karen Hursh Graber.

Further Semana Santa reading:

Mexconnect articles about Semana Santa
Go Mexico
Semana Santa photos on Flickr
Semana Santa Celebrations in Oaxaca

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