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Mexican Market Eating on Wahaca

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Thinly slice the chicken and coat in the chipotle sauce.

Put a spoonful of the chicken mixture on the tortilla and layer up with roasted peppers, spring onion, cheese and coriander.

Fold the tortilla wrap in half and brush lightly with olive oil.

Heat a pan and griddle both sides on a moderate heat on both sides until the cheese is melted and the filling is oozy.

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Azulito Bar, Wahaca | Amateur Wine

Wahaca is all Mexican street food but underneath the Soho venue lies the new Azulito Bar, the purveyor of a fine selection of tequilas.

Like Wahaca upstairs, Azulito’s colourful décor projects fun – it’s all about the bold red, flashy blue and lime green.

And in case there wasn’t enough of a crazy mix, there is also table football to the side so you can indulge in something a bit more than just good food and tequila.

Most people seem to go there to catch up with friends over a love of tequila as despite the music, it’s not a place to throw your shapes and embarass yourself on a dancefloor There is only one drink you should have at Azulito – tequila.

In case you’re wondering, it takes at least 51% blue agave (Azulito means “little blue” in case you were wondering) for a spirit to be classed as tequila so 100% is as good as it gets.

Wahaca: Not much fire in the belly | The Independent

Ms Miers is a woman with her heart embedded in the Sierra Madre, and her taste-buds tinglingly attuned to Mexican food.

You start with beers and guacamole nibbles and choose some "street food", which means little china trays of three tacos (or two tostadas, two quesadillas or two taquitos) featuring pork, chicken, steak or fish.

There are basically six food items available here, served up in minimally different ways: marinated chicken, char-grilled steak, slow-cooked pork, grilled fish, vegetables and beans.

The "street food" chorizo'*'potato quesadillas, however, were greasy, and short on chorizo, the "chicken tinga" tacos were boringly flavourless, and the "smoky aubergine, potato and goat's cheese", served in two long deep-fried cigar tortillas, lacked any hint of cheese, or aubergine, smoky or otherwise.

It's gesture cuisine, pretending to be hot, edgy, sexy, smoky, street-cred Mexican, but turning out food that's far too cautious about upsetting gringo appetites.

Wahaca Soho Azulito Bar - DrinkUp.London

Azulito’s décor is bright with an eclectic mix of furniture, low lighting, a couple of foosball tables and exposed brickwork which all work together keep the vibe lively, upbeat and friendly whilst maintaining a little of Soho’s gritty edge...Azulito translates from Spanish as ‘little blue’; a nod to the blue agave plant from which all tequila is distilled.

And if you like to talk tequila, this is the place to be, with over 55 different kinds behind the bar - all made from 100% agave.

London's Biggest Mexican Restaurant Chain Wahaca Will Launch a ...

The Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca — which celebrated a decade in the business earlier this year — have announced that they will open a new 120-cover restaurant and “test kitchen” on Tabernacle Street in Shoreditch on Monday 27 November.

“Wahaca’s new Shoreditch restaurant will act as an innovation platform to develop new ideas and recipes — with the ambition of taking many of the dishes created to the group’s restaurants around the UK,” they said in a statement.

Wahaca has a huge following across the UK, reportedly serving three million tacos a year (one million of their signature pork pibil) across their portfolio of restaurants.

Tommi Miers ©TaraFisher Tommi Miers said: “Wahaca has always been at the forefront of innovation, bringing new Mexican dishes to the UK, and after ten years we’re hugely excited to have this new Test Kitchen to help us continue to push the boundaries and find new ways to explore the incredible variety of vibrant flavours and ingredients from Mexico’s extraordinary range of cuisines.”

Wahaca, which launched in Covent Garden in 2007, currently operates 25 restaurants across the UK — 16 of which (including this new Shoreditch site) are in London.

Restaurant Review: Breakfast At Wahaca | Londonist

Wahaca on Charlotte Street is the latest in London's seemingly endless Mexican restaurant wave.

Less impressive was the breakfast burrito — a heaving flour tortilla stuffed with egg, spinach, cheese and bacon — which was a little bland, requiring liberal dashings of habanero salsa to elicit any kind of response from the taste buds.

Other items on the menu include a breakfast torta (a sandwich made using a hollowed-out brioche bun stuffed with ), "Mexican eggs" (scrambled with onions, chili and refried beans) and baked goods including donuts and banana bread.

Wahaca has competition in the local area, not only from established Mexican fast food places like Benito's Hat and El Burrito, but from the many other restaurants that line Charlotte Street.

Breakfast for two, with two mains, a coffees, an horchata (a rice-based cinnamon flavoured drink), a side of banana bread and service, came to around £18.

DF / Mexico review – the bastard offspring of Wahaca and Wimpy ...

DF / Mexico feels like the template for a middle-class chain restaurant, the sort you could easily imagine slotting in next to a Leon or a Busaba in a Westfield shopping centre.

DF / Mexico, with one branch in the Truman Brewery and the one reviewed here on Tottenham Court Road, is a spin-off of Wahaca but one that feels as if it’s been designed by management consultants with flipcharts, focus groups and a thumping big book of market research and business jargon.

Wahaca’s increasingly sprawling menu is pared back to just a few favourites – tacos, burritos, tortas as well as fillings from those dishes slapped onto a sharing board.

Its lack of butteriness was actually welcome here though, given that the overwhelming majority of tortas I tried in Mexico used equally neutral tasting bread to allowing the fillings to take centre stage.

If DF / Mexico is the future face of Mexican food on the British high street, then I fear for the continuing reputation of Mexican cuisine in Britain.

Azulito Bar @ Wahaca Soho | London Restaurant and Bar Reviews ...

I usually love my visits to Wahaca but on my latest visit I felt a bit miffed.

It wasn't clear who was in charge of greeting but the person I believe was in charge walked off and was chatting to other staff just as we got to the front of the line.

A waiter greeted us and said "you're at table 5" and then gestured at a table on the other side of the room and left us to it.

We were a bit confused as to where we were meant to be sitting so I approached the person I had seen seating other people earlier, he was at the bar chatting to a waitress and I felt so embarrassed like I had been intruding on their conversation, the member of staff didn't really understand my confusion and I think assumed that I had just walked in of my own accord without waiting to be seated, I told him that we were gestured to table number 5 and he said that that was for 5 people and then just told us to go and sit at table number 2.

I understand that the staff here are very busy but I've been to many Wahaca resteraunts previously and have never been made to feel so silly or uncomfortable.

Azulito Bar Wahaca - Soho Bar Review | DesignMyNight

Wahaca is all Mexican street food but underneath the Soho venue lies the new Azulito Bar, the purveyor of a fine selection of tequilas.

And in case there wasn't enough of a crazy mix, there is also table football to the side so you can indulge in something a bit more than just good food and tequila.

There is only one drink you should have at Azulito €“ tequila.

In case you're wondering, it takes at least 51% blue agave (Azulito means "little blue" in case you were wondering) for a spirit to be classed as tequila so 100% is as good as it gets.

Feast your taste buds on some wonderful tequila and nachos Azulito is central, it's fun and it's inexpensive €“ that's a pretty good combination for a great night out in London.

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