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Calling all designers! Your chance to design the new uniforms for Wahaca Soho

To mark the launch of our new restaurant in Wardour Street, Soho, we are launching an exciting competition to design our staff T-shirts. Not only is this a chance for you to show off your creative side, but the winning designer will be treated to 12 months free food at our Soho restaurant!

Designs should be inspired by “Mexican market eating”. Good designs will be fun, stylish and above all capture the spririt of the restaurants. The winner will be chosen by Co- founders Mark Selby and Thomasina Miers. To see the existing uniforms and for more inspiration, pop into the restaurants or take a look around our facebook and flickr pages.

Key notes:
Consideration shoud be given to the fact that the final design will be printed onto a brown t-shirt.
Unisex t-shirts to be worn by both male and female staff. Designs should be sized to fit on an A4 page (297mm x 210mm).
Designs should be applied to this template and submitted digitally as a high resolution jpeg (300dpi) using the submission form below.
Deadline for entries is the 30th September. Winner will be announced shortly after this date via the blog.

 

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FULL TERMS AND CONDITIONS “Soho t-shirt design contest”

1. Open to all UK, CI, IoM & ROI residents
2. Closing date for receipt of all entries is 30.09.10
3. To participate, entrants must submit their design digitally as a high res jpeg via the blog http://blog.wahaca.co.uk
4. One entry per participant.
5. Entries must be the original creation of the participants.
6. Entries must not contain copyrighted material owned by third parties.
7. The winner will be selected by the promoter based on what they feel would be best for the soho t-shirts .
8. The Prize: The winner will design the t-shirts for the new restaurant and these will be printed by the promoter and worn by their staff. The winner will receive a years worth of meals at wahaca up to the value of £1200. This amount must be used in the Soho restaurant and will expire a year from an agreed date with the promoters.
9. The design must be the original creation of the winner.
10. All designs entered to the competition become the property of the promoter.
11. The winners design will become the property of the promoter
12. The Promoter’s decision in all matters is final.
13. Winners agree to take part in any publicity that may be required resulting from this promotion without further recompense.
14. The Promoter does not warrant the use of, or access to the site, will be uninterrupted by error or virus free nor shall it or its licensors have any liability for damages caused by hostile software which may affect or infect your computer equipment or property as a result of your use or browsing of this site.

Promoter: Wahaca, 66 Chandos Place, London. WC2N 4HG

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Murray Mound? Give Me Murray Mescal Bar any day

The sun is out and the summer screen in Canary Wharf has got to be hard to top as the best place to watch the tennis this weekend, especially if you’re in the Wahaca terrace bar sipping one of Sammi’s Margaritas, or sampling some of the great mescals.

The Canary Wharf Sumer Screen, conveniently located just opposite Wahaca in Canada Square Park, will be showing all of the remaining matches at Wimbledon. It’s free for anyone to come along and show the nations favourite Scott a bit of support.

For details on how to find us in Canary Wharf, check out our website, or head to the bottom of the really big pointy building – It’ pretty hard to miss.

To spice things up a bit, we’re giving you the chance to win a free drink at the Canary Wharf bar on Sunday during the final – all you have to do is correctly guess the final score in the last set of today’s Murray Vs Nadal semi final, and leave it as a comment below. So if Murray’s going to win 6-0 (wishful thinking) then just post “6 – 0 Murray” below. Entries have to be in before the beginning of the final set in today’s match. For full terms and conditions email loswahacos@wahaca.co.uk.

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Mexican football fever at Wahaca

Calling all Mexican football fans!! The best summer entertainment is nearly here…

To celebrate the World Cup and to show its support for the Mexican team, Wahaca is giving free food to all who wear a Mexican football shirt on the days of the Mexican matches.

All you have to do is come to Wahaca on either of Mexico’s big match dates, wear the real Mexican football shirt and enjoy free food at Wahaca on us!

Dates for the Mexico Matches kick off with South Africa on Friday 11th June, France on Thursday 17th June and Uruguay Tuesday 22nd June. We look forward to seeing you on these days.

This is a great opportunity to try some of our new dishes from wahaca’s summer menu. Highlights from the new menu include grilled cactus tacos with courgette and cheese, as well as the Chile Relleno – a mouth watering softened chile ancho, stuffed with refried beans and topped with a sweetening mix of caramelised onions, fresh thyme and sour cream.

terms & conditions

This offer will only run during the World Cup Matches on 11th/17th/22nd June.

There will be no screening of the match at Wahaca

Complimentary food is offered only to those wearing authentic Mexican football shirts, on days that Mexico play.

No drink is included in this offer.

It will be the managers discretion as to how much complimentary food each person orders (if they feel this offer is being abused).

Restaurants

Covent Garden, 66 Chandos Place, London WC2N 4HG

Westfield, 1074 Westfield Shopping Centre, Ariel Way, Lodnon W12 7GB

Canary Wharf, Park Pavillion, 40 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5FW

Opening times

1200-2300 Monday – Saturday

1200-2200 Sunday

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Burrito Burrito Burrito!!!!! Wahaca launches takeaway exclusively for Canary Wharf

Wahaca Canary Wharf today launches their exciting new take-away service for all those living and working in the local area to enjoy.

Using the soft tortilla as a base, burritos originated with wives bringing farmers their mid-day meals by using tortillas as wrapping. Now Wahaca does the same for busy customers who want fresh fast food. A meal in itself, a burrito gives the body everything it needs for the day, perfect for lunch on the go.

Pop in to Wahaca Canary Wharf and pick up a burrito or call 0207 516 9145 to pre order.

The full take-away menu is available to see by clicking here.

What bloggers say about our burritos:

“The pork was incredible and was wrapped with pink pickled onions. The tart, sweet crunch of the onions meant that the pork wasn’t too overwhelming and kept it fresh tasting.”

from londonburritomadness.blogspot.com

“It was great trying the range of burritos at Wahaca and I was surprised by just how nice the toasted ones tasted!”

from londonburrito

“We thoroughly enjoyed each one we tried, but were most impressed with the char-grilled steak burrito with

chipotle salsa and grilled spring onions.”

from londonist

“Favourites…included chargrilled steak and slow cooked pork.”

from onemilliongoldstars.com

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Wahaca’s new summer menu… launches today!

Today is the big launch of our new summer menu… good luck to the wahaca team and hope you all enjoy our new dishes.

We did a tasting of most of the new dishes last night with some food bloggers, tweeters and friends – it was a great success and the feedback and comments from all was really positive.

Here are some of the fab photos and comments… Hope this inspires you all to come by and try out the new menu!

@tomdotcom_uk This is the @Wahaca summery new potato taquito. It has a new orange habanero salsa on it which is a delight!

Summery new potato taquito

@eatlikeagirl Really impressed with the @wahaca summer menu. Really vibrant and delicious. More please!

@tikichris And @wahaca’s corn bread with mole, sesame seeds and crema? Wahoo!

Corn bread and mole sauce

@SimonG_1 And the food keeps coming @wahaca – summer menu is incredible – the mole is mind blowing

@tomdotcom_uk OK @Wahaca have outdone themselves! I am the biggest fan of their churros & chocolate, but the new Flan de la Casa is the best pudding ever!

@MathildeCuisine @wahaca has come up with an absolutely delicious summer menu. Ceviche is so tasty and flan is to die for!

Flan de la casa

@LibbyEAndrews Delicious meal @wahaca tonight – the summer menu is def the way to go

@BeccaChaplin Just had an amazing evening @wahaca sampling new menu. Must haves are ceviche, mole taco, new habanero sauce, hibiscus & passionfruit jelly!

Chicken mole taco

@1mgoldstars Tons of yum on @wahaca’s new summer menu, particularly good veggie options, and great evening as usual

Grilled cactus taco

@simondoggett Found some heaven in the @wahaca shrimp and scallop ceviche. Lovely chat with Mark. Top restaurateur dude.

MSC ceviche tostada

@SimonG_1 It was a great event @wahaca just shows you can have great tasting ethically sourced food without breaking the bank.

Chicken guajillo tostada

Thanks to all for joining us and for all your wonderful comments. Hope to see you all down in wahaca soon and look forward to hear your feedback on the new dishes.

Thanks to Niamh @eatlikeagirl for her great photos which can be seen on flickr. Check out her new blog where she has added a post from last night. Also congrats and hello to Tom who became the foursquare mayor for wahaca Westfield last night after the menu tasting – thanks for all your support!

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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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Thomasina Miers book signing in Canary Wharf

Join us on Tuesday 9th March from 1pm in Canada Place Crossroads in Canary Wharf’s mall for a chance to meet Thomasina Miers and get an exclusive signed copy of her new book “Mexican Food Made Simple.”

“A world away from Tex-Mex sizzling fajitas with cheesy nachos, Thomasina Miers, former MasterChef champ and Wahaca restaurant founder, is bringing a large slice of genuine Mexico to the mainstream” The Independent

To mark the occasion, Wahaca will be giving away delicious guacamole and chips fresh from their restaurant in The Park Pavilion, Canada Square.

Hope to see you there!

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Little Chilli Give Away – The Results!

We hope your little chilli pots have survived the cold Christmas and you have a nice little chilli plant growing! Its time to come and show us how you’re doing, perhaps get some advice or share notes with the team at Canary Wharf Wahaca, who have been growing their own plants too.

Visit us this January with your pot and enjoy a free Guacamole & Tortilla Chips from us. If you missed out on the chilli pots do not worry! Pop into Wahaca and we will give you some of our Serrano chilli seeds and some tips on how to grow them.

Bring some heat and spice into your life over the cold months at Wahaca!

(This is only available to those who received a Little Chilli Give Away Pot, the free Guacamole & Tortilla chips are to be enjoyed in the restaurant alongside a meal and only at the Canary Wharf Wahaca restaurant).

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A Mexican wine evening

On Wednesday night Bibendum Wines & Wahaca got together a group of wine experts for a food and wine pairing with Thomasina Miers of Wahaca and Hugo D’Acosta – a Mexican wine pioneer.

Mexican wine to most people is a new discovery and for me it was an incredibly enjoyable one. I am not a “wino” at all and whether a bottle is good is measured by me wanting another glass or not but I found it very interesting to match it with food and enjoyed combining the flavours.

I am also very interested in anything mexican (obviously!) and the whole history of wine and the culture around it I found fascinating.

Hugo gave Wahaca a book on The Wine Valleys of Mexico which are based in Baja California – a very beautiful dramatic region of Mexico just near the border to the US. I am actually planning to go there in February so will definitely have a lot more to say and show on it while out there.

This book gives a little history of the origin of Wine in Mexico with it starting back in the 16th Century when the vines were brought over by the Spaniards and renewed themselves – achieving their own personality and essence. But some grapes did actually already exist in Mexico before the Spaniards arrived – a wild or Cimarron grape from which a juice was extracted and which the Aztecs mixed with honey and fruits to make a beverage called acachul which can still be found in Mexico using the traditional recipe. These grapes were not able to be made into wine though so the Spaniards quickly planted the European grapes Vitis vinifera and due to unbeatable conditions the vines were to be found in many different regions.

By 1595, the enormous production of grapes in Mexico became a big problem for the Spanish winemakers and also the owners and managers of the merchant fleets in Cadiz saw their wine producing business diminish so pressure was put on the King to pass a law which forbade more vines to be planted in Mexico. Many vineyards were burnt down as well.

This led later on in 1848 to Baja California being the centre for wine growing in Mexico as it was at this time not part of Mexico due to the war between the USA and Mexico and therefore enabled the missionaries to plant their vines without the threat of the law.

Can’t wait to find out more about this when I meet up with Hugo in Baja in a months time.

The wine experts at Bibendum have written a more detailed tasting blog on the wines which has got a couple of awesome videos in it as well.

It was a really great evening with Tommi creating dishes such as this delicous fresh ceviche and Hugo providing a wonderful selection of interesting and enjoyable wines.

To taste a very good example of Mexican wines come to Wahaca where Estacion Porvenir is served at the moment which is the only one of these wines available in the UK at the moment.

Here is the menu for the evening – we hope to see many of these wines over in the UK soon.

Guacamole and Tortilla Chips

Emblema 2008

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Scallops ceviche with tortilla chips

Piedra de Sol 2008

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Tostada

Black Bean

Herring

Kerubiel 2007

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Tacos

Mole Taco

Steak Taco w. cheese

Estacion Porvenir 2007

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Huitlacoche Quesadilla

Chorizo cheese Quesadilla

Ensamble Arenal 2007

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Churros

Maat 2007

If you want to read more about Mexican wine have a look at these great posts:

Bibendum’s Mexican Wine Night at Wahaca
Mexico’s Valley of Wine
A Toast to Mexico’s Undiscovered Wine Country
Trailblazers named Mexican Wine Persons of the Year

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