Table Talk: Wahaca brings a taste of Mexico to London - mexican restaurant corn side dish

LONDON (Reuters Life! )-
Decades later, in the gourmet desert of Texas
Mexican restaurant with plastic cactus and terrible cheese
Wahaca leads a wave of modern restaurants on nutritious cornflakes, bringing authentic Mexican flavors to London.
Over the past few decades, dozens of countries have turned the British capital from the land of a pie and eel shop to a paradise for global food lovers to be their home.
But few Mexicans have settled in the UK and their culinary wealth is largely unknown until Tommi Miers and business partner Mark Selby are traveling in love with Mexican food before 2007.
"Mexican food is described so badly in the UK.
"There's a lot of fun to do," Selby told Reuters in an interview with the third restaurant that opened at Canary Wharf on November . ".
"I really want Mexican food. . .
It can be fresh, it can be wonderful, it can be a splendid taste.
"Miers and Selby traveled around Mexico in the late 1990 s, and Miers cooked in Mexico's food hotspots for more than a year, collecting recipes as they walked.
After she came back, she won the 2005 British TV cooking contest "chef" with Mexican cuisine, and the two opened the first Oaxaca (
Pronunciation of Oaxaca, Mexico)
Two years later, in the basement of the stylish Covent Garden.
The branch now serves about 5,500-
There are 6,000 people per week, and people in line often line up on stairs and on the streets.
The company is now considering opening its fourth branch soon.
"We like the idea represented by the state of Oaxaca.
This is a culinary center and a cultural center. it feels great. Selby said the waiting staff were buzzing around the glittering Canary Wharf branch, ready to meet the long line of bankers who were about to gather at the door.
"Everything about Oaxaca is inspired by Mexico, but we're not just copying it.
We never said we were real.
"But the style, the tortillas, the taste of the market, the speed of the food, that's what motivates us," he said . ".
Many Mexican restaurants in Britain, known as "authentic", are nothing but movies --
Parody breros, ponchos and fancy neon beer logos provide Mexican spoilers for the crowd looking for a party venue.
Oaxaca and some other restaurants in the capital, such as Mexican restaurants
A mixed-race restaurant and a fast Mexican restaurant are fighting back.
Trying to bring real taste from Rio Grande south below TexasMex shadow.
Only Mexican on the menu, Tex-
Mexico's favorite burrito will only appear when the two burrito date back to Baha' I, California.
Oaxaca's pork bill is as good as any kind of kochtapir you find on the Yucatan Peninsula-
Slow home-
Barbecue-
When the chicken tortillas match anything in taqueria, Mexico City.
All of this can be soaked in the sauce made for Oaxaca with the peppers grown in southwest England --
From the very hot habanello sauce bottle on your desk, to the important accompaniment of Bill, to the green and red sauce in the small bowl, for those who want a more gentle taste
Wash it off with a torch
Tame a Horchata, a apricot and rice drink containing cinnamon or a variety of tequilas and Mexican beers.
Although the taste is obviously Mexican, most of the ingredients are purchased locally.
At present, edible cactus leaves, green tomatoes and Mexican-specific delicacies "whitecoche" imported from Mexico ".
But the company is trying to persuade European farmers to supply the products to reduce their carbon footprint.
Huitlacoche taquitos is another highlight of the changing menu.
Corn fungus is expensive even in Mexico, but can be harvested anywhere.
Selby said: "Tommi has spoken to a lot of British farmers because it's in all the corn on the shell, but they all strip it off the ads and throw it away.
"This is one of our biggest sellers.
There are already many traditional dishes on the menu, including chocolate wrapped chicken burrito --
Delicious Oaxacan chili sauce and classic tomatoes
A Mexican restaurant claims the best chili sauce she has ever had.
Wahaca plans to add a new monthly specialty from February, and the maximum number of hits will be a permanent fixture on the menu.
But a fan of Pastor Al.
The Mexican capital was introduced by Lebanese immigrants to pineapple and coriander flavored pork skewers-
Before the summer, Oaxaca will have to drool patiently, waiting for Oaxaca to accept the tortillas that are obsessed with the Mexican city residents.
Selby said: "We 've been playing with how we cook it and it's delicious and hopefully when we do a taco stand here in the summer, "look down at the Meadow square between the new branch and many of Europe's tallest skyscrapers.
Maybe the owner of the Canary Wharf can use the beach instead of the ice rink in the current square to eat?
Nice hammock too.