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Grassfed Culture Hospitality launches Los Felix in Miami
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Wednesday, 01 September, 2021, 16 : 00 PM [IST]
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MIAMI, USA
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Grassfed Culture Hospitality’s newest restaurant concept, Los Felix, a modern, neighborhood Mexican-style eatery is coming to Miami’s Coconut Grove this Fall. Fuelled by a drive for warm hospitality and a passion for gastronomy, restaurateurs Josh Hackler, Pili Restrepo, and chef Sebastián Vargas – whose culinary resume boasts Michelin-starred restaurants Osteria Francescana, Eleven Madison Park and Fäviken Magasinet – founded Grassfed Culture Hospitality in 2020, to restore and nourish the communities they operate in.
Their restaurant is an open love letter to the fine and nearly extinct traditions that make up authentic Mexican cuisine. Focused on crafting traditional Mexican fare, using the finest heirloom corn and Milpa farming techniques – a time-honoured ancestral tradition of cultivating land with heart awareness – the restaurant blends culture with flavour to craft the ultimate Mexican-styled eatery.
Vargas said, “Milpa farming is one of the few sociocultural connections we still have to the ancient indigenous farmers that came before us. The making of Milpa is awakening to the sacred connection between self and land, between community and the interconnected realms of existence. It is reverent hands in soil and looking skyward for guidance. It is honest earthwork and a cosmic portal to our infinite nature through the honoring of corn, chilles, cacao and squash. Milpa is living wisdom.”
With corn as the foundation of Los Felix, the menu will feature homemade Mexican tacos and quesadillas, hand-crafted on the restaurant’s molino – a traditional Mexican tortilla mill – tamales, aguas frescas and a mix of seasonal dishes paired with natural wines and craft beers.
“In the beginning when all was stillness, silence and water, humans looked to corn to restore their strength and feed their souls. Our mission is to craft authentic Mexican dishes bursting with flavor that honor the sacred connection between man and corn using only ingredients we would feed to our families; seasonal, locally sourced and pastured food,” added Vargas.
The name of the restaurant was inspired by Mexican film actress María Félix and pays homage to the legacy she left on Mexico, Latin America and Europe. The name also honours the hard-working women who have evolved Mexican cuisine through the generations.
?Pili Restrepo, creative director,?Grassfed?Culture Hospitality, said, “We are modern Mexican cuisine rooted in indigenous heritage. With the name Los Félix, we nod to the grandmothers who carried the fire of ancestral wisdom, the mothers who preserved ceremony, and the female trailblazers who embodied the fierce and the tender, by way of iconic muse Maria Felix.”
The restaurant will also house a natural wine bar with an extensive by the glass and bottle programme, led by wine expert and CEO of Grassfed Culture, Josh Hackler, featuring interesting orange and amber wines, chilled reds and unique sparkling wines from small family producers from South America, Mexico, Europe and California. The restaurant will host multiple programming each week including Miami’s first weekly Vinyl DJ music programme with an analog sound system every Friday and Saturday, a late-night menu and more.
Hackler said, “Los?Félix is a multisensory celebration that honors truth through flavour, imagination through natural wine, and atmosphere through vinyl records. Our take on an authentic Mexican eatery is unique and blends our understanding of Mexican culture and traditions with our desire to provide exceptional tastes and funky tunes. You may come for the tacos, but you’ll stay for the ambience, culture and authentic eats.”
The restaurant will partner with Compost for Life Miami and Lean Orb to provide sustainable and compostable to-go packaging including their corn bags which are made using entirely sustainable and eco-friendly material and can be worn as tote bags.
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