06-12-2017
Two of the recipes presented at restaurant Ella Canta in London by Martha Ortiz, the most acclaimed chef in Mexico. The restaurant opened inside hotel One Hamilton Place Park Lane, tel. +44.(0)20.73188715
The most acclaimed chef in Mexico, Martha Ortiz, brings the flavour and beauty of her homeland cuisine to the British capital. Her new project, Ella Canta, "Authentic Mexican restaurant" inside the InterContinental London Park Lane, perfectly represents typical Mexican elements: tradition, art, culture, past and present. She combines these elements in an elegant representation of Mexican cuisine in which food and the visual context surrounding it are part of the same recipe, of the same iconicity.
To put it simply, Martha explains that at Ella Canta “food is like a vibration, a voice and an aesthetic taste. In this sense it’s womanly, it’s feminine; it is chanted by beauty and sensuality, by impulses that can be as lyrical as the image of Latin American women of whom we have various examples: poets, painters, photographers.”
Those who know Martha Ortiz thanks to her famous Dulce Patria in Mexico City know they can expect an imaginative, creative, feminine and colourful cuisine at Ella Canta ; “I believe in Mexico we eat with colours too” – says the chef. The menu tells an intriguing story through flavours, textures and indeed colours that all meet in the same action, tasting. Tasting simplicity, richness, subtlety.
Martha Ortiz. It all began at Dulce Patria, Mexico City, her flagship restaurant
The dining room at Ella Canta
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
Ella Canta One Hamilton Place Park Lane +44.(0)20.73188715 London, UK Average prices: starters 11, main courses 27, desserts 9 pounds
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Chef, journalist, a Phd in Italian linguistics, author of books on the theme, experiences that converge in the same profession, from writing to cooking, from cooking to journalism and back to cooking. The same that led him to write for Mexican magazines such as Protocolo, Saborearte and Siempre