3 August 2007

Hot Stuff

Wahaca Restaurant Opens

To market, to market to:
a) buy a fat pig.
b) hunt for a party dress.
c) eat like a local.

If you fancy option ‘c’, you’ll like the recently opened Wahaca. The first restaurant from Thomasina Miers (MasterChef winner 2005), Wahaca has a menu and (mostly) recycled wooden interior inspired by a traditional Mexican food market (complete with a strict no-booking policy).

Most ingredients are locally sourced; the hot table sauce, for example, is made from Devonshire habanero chillies. Expect seriously good quesadillas, tacos, taquitos, tostadas, burritos, Wheetos and Cheetos (just kidding); followed by churros y chocolate or lemon margarita sorbet. There are plenty of authentic beers to wash it all down with, plus sangrita — spicy tomato and orange juices sipped with tequila.

It’s all pretty hot; to make it hotter, Wahaca offers diners a pack of jalapeno seeds to encourage the growth of British chillies.

Still need a fat pig?

Hit this place, and you won’t have to go too far to find one.

Wahaca, 66 Chandos Place, WC2N 4HG (020 7240 1883 or wahaca.co.uk).