CONTEMPORARY CUISINE

In recent years, Mexican chefs have shown that the unique flavors of traditional ingredients and those from other countries, together with creative use of colors and designs, can be combined to create wondrous works of art. This recipe is used to create new techniques through which taste, presentation and texture are emphasized. These are also the techniques that embody the essence of contemporary Mexican cuisine.

In Mexican cuisine restaurants, you will find menus for multiple courses. These dishes are created with fresh and high-quality ingredients, and many ingredients are organic and have been cultivated without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or anabolic steroids. The simplicity of the presentation and the nature of each dish are meant to charm the customer from the first sight to the very last bite.

Let yourself be surprised by beautiful creations in the form of salads, main courses, beverages and desserts. Prepare your palate to taste a variety of delicatessens in combinations you have never imagined before - meat served with sweet fruit-sauce or prepared with pulque (white, fermented beverage from the agave plant)! Savor and enjoy some of the traditional pre-Hispanic vegetables like huitlacoche (corn fungus), pumpkin flowers or huazontles (a plant bearing edible flowers) prepared with goat cheese and carrying a whiff of the Mediterranean. Imagine one of the most traditional sauces of the Yucatan Peninsula that is called chiltomate which is made with tomatoes, habanero chilies, onions and coriander, served over delicious taquitos de jícama (tacos made from a juicy, white tuber) stuffed with chapulines (grasshoppers), huitlacoche and Oaxaca cheese. Or how about some tacos with shrimp, laced with tamarind sauce and garnished with fried banana? Do not be timid and keep yourself from thoroughly enjoying a dish of meat stuffed with dried plums and accompanied by white wine jelly with creamy cheese on the inside!

You will be continually amazed by the combination of cheeses, such as Camembert or Brie, with green chilies and pasilla chilies. You should also try shrimp with "black filling" (a sauce made with a traditional condiment from Mérida). Discover the diversity of the national ingredients, and their fusion with traditional Asian recipes, in a mixture where chipotle chilies substitute the seaweed in sushi, and the spring rolls contain nopal (cactus), avocado and carrot. Finally, remember not to miss reinvented typical recipes like guacamole served like a mousse with pieces of onion, tomato and crispy pork rind.

We could enumerate these kinds of combinations infinitely. It should also be noted that the variety of ingredients is not the only important factor; the presentation plays a fundamental role as well. Seeds, plants and fruit serve perfectly as decorative elements on the plate, and varied sauces are used to create lovely figures that add color and give a special touch to the dish.

The saying, ?love at first sight?, is vividly exemplified in the world of gastronomy. Create a glorious ending for your delicious dinner with an exotic dessert made with fruit, liquors or spices that come from all over the world, accompanied by jellies and sauces with the most imaginative ingredients. Mexican confectioneries have made good use of these elements and will offer them in unforgettable flavors!

Throughout the country you will find innumerous restaurants where you can enjoy all these fine delicacies. And you will love it!