Black Beans or Pinto Beans?

The choice is yours!

Lift off!

Today was our first day on full price and it went fabulously well! Glad to see some VIBs drop in too! Thanks for your support guys!

Kitchen in training

We opened our doors this week for training with all food at half price. We were expecting to have the odd friend or neighbour popping by but instead we were inundated with local bargain hunters, including a food reviewer - yikes - a bit of a tough ask given we were far from ready!

Monday
We completely underestimated the amount of prepping that had to be done and couldn't serve a single person :( A big thank you to our neighbour who bought a coke so we didn't have a complete donut of a day...

Tuesday
We managed to have everything ready at 12.10 and even though it was raining (bad weather means bad business) a little queue of people formed... but then again, that might just be because Christina needed a bit of help working the till!

Wednesday
Christina improved her till skills, but we ran out of beef.

Thursday

The oven decided to malfunction and again we only managed to open after midday.

Friday
We hired someone to help out with our morning prep, but they decided not to show up, so again we weren't ready on time and even lost an order of 7 burritos* because of the delay.
*If you're reading this Terry, we're really sorry we let you down. If you still wanna give us second chance, you can pick up your order any time this week for free.

It was good practice though, and hopefully this week we'll do better!

Though still don't feel confident enough to charge full price just yet. Our target for this week is to be ready at 11:30. If we're able to do 5 in a row, we'll open properly the week after.

I can see the mariachi band already...

Etienne's woodwork

Fortunately for us, Etienne grew up in a one-horse town where carpentry was taught at school and you needed the ability to fix things yourself to survive. As you can see he's an expert...

Massive Makeover

The shop may be small but just like Katie Price it underwent some major surgery to get it looking the way it is. Here are some photos of the journey.

Moved the staircase

Major damp-proofing

Removed a pillar

Levelling the floors

Install gas & reroute electrics

Oaxacan mole (aka the Choc Norris)

This baby is truly something special & nothing like it is sold anywhere else in the UK (as far as we know anyway). Nonetheless it was always going to be a tough sell as essentially it consists of odd-looking vegetables and exotic spices cooked in a savoury sauce made from... chocolate (!?). Yep - sounds weird we know. So what we're saying is we took something that sounds unnapealing, takes ages to make, is filled with hard-to-find ingredients and we put it on our menu anyway. This one will roundhouse kick your tastebuds all the way to Texas.

Singing in the snow

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