According to Eater, an ambitious new Mexican culinary establishment is headed to downtown Austin. Mexta Restaurant will open at 106 East Sixth Street, Suite 110 “sometime this year.”
“In the culinary world, storytelling through food is a powerful way to engage customers. Mexta’s fusion of Mexican gastronomy with Austin’s culture offers a rich narrative that can be leveraged in marketing. Highlighting the origins of specific dishes, the chefs’ backgrounds and the cultural inspirations behind the menu items can create a compelling narrative,” the official website states.
Readers can expect to be impressed by the restaurant’s stellar lineup of Carlos Gaytán, Jonatan Gómez Luna Torres, and Mikel Alonso Garcia.
“Gaytán grew up in Huitzuco, Guerrero, Mexico, where he learned to cook with his mother. He worked his way through restaurants and apprenticed at now-closed Chicago French restaurant Bistro Margot. He became the first Mexican-born chef whose restaurant earned a Michelin star in 2013, of the now-closed Mexican French restaurant Mixque. And he still runs two Chicago Mexican restaurants, Tzuco and Tales of Carlos Gaytán. He also competed in season 11 of Top Chef in New Orleans and developed the menu of Hotel Xcaret restaurant Hà in the Riviera Maya,” the report states.
“Torres, who is from Mexico City, studied at the Centro Culinario Ambrosia. From there, he had worked at various high-end restaurants and then opened Le Chique, a restaurant within the Riviera Maya region’s Azul Sensatori resort in 2008, which is on the Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurant list.”
“And finally, Garcia is from southwestern France and studied chemical engineering at Spain’s University of Basque Country. He realized he’d rather cook and then switched to study at the Escuela de Cocina Luis Irizar. He moved to Mexico City where he worked at various restaurants. He also opened his own restaurant, the now-closed Basque-style Biko, with co-owner Bruno Oteiza, which had made the World’s 50 Best Restaurants and the Latin America lists in 2016. The duo also developed Grand Velas Riviera Maya resort restaurant Cocina de Autor.”
No opening date has been announced.
