Culinary Traditions Of Grandmothers Honored At YAYA, Chileno Bay Resort’s Newest Restaurant

Chileno Bay Resort & Residences, Auberge Resorts Collection, is without doubt one of the hottest eating locations in Los Cabos, with Government Chef Yvan Mucharraz’s Comal on everybody’s hit record. The resort is venturing now into pan-Mediterranean cooking across the theme of grandmothers’ contributions to numerous cultural traditions, together with Italian, Moroccan, Lebanese, Palestinian — and, in fact, Mexican. YAYA, which suggests “grandmother” in each Italian and Greek, celebrates the recipes of generations of ladies residence cooks with a menu centered round live-fire cooking. YAYA may also supply as many merchandise as potential from girls purveyors.

Chef de CuisineEliana Godinez went to Italy to review the meals of her mom’s household, coaching with Massimo Bottura at Michelin three-star Osteria Francescana earlier than returning residence to Mexico Metropolis to work with Jorge Vallejo at Quintonil. All alongside the best way, she deepened her love of baking, which, throughout the starting of the pandemic, she and her husband, Orli Del Angel (now the lodge’s govt sous chef), became an artisanal bread enterprise, beginning with babkas and increasing right into a full bread operation.

Godinez’s ties to baking seem all through YAYA’s menu, initially with the bread every visitor is served upon being seated. Primarily pizza dough that she calls “air bread,” Godinez embraces the metaphor of two or extra individuals breaking bread as they start a meal collectively.

In an interview final week, Godinez mentioned her present favourite dishes are shrimp aglio olio with peperoncino — which is a mixture of Mexican and Italian impulses, with adobo, tomatillo, onion and Aleppo pepper — and the pizza of the day, supplied alongside the basic Margherita. She additionally loves the crisp, clear, natural uncooked greens within the crudité, rainbow-like on the plate, with spreads corresponding to fermented lentils with sumac and basil oil.

The Italian wine record goes with every part on the menu, and Lead Mixologist Yared Alba’s cocktail program options Condesa, a gin distilled in Mexico Metropolis produced by girls, and YOLA Mezcal. A brand new communal beverage expertise supplied right here is the idea of sharing beer identical to wine is historically shared. Cervecería Cielito Lindo, a women-run model in Jalisco led by Brewmaster Laura Peña, is served in giant caguamas (32-ounce beer bottles distinctive to Mexico) with a number of glasses.

Los Angeles-based Studio MAI designed the house, which overlooks the three-tiered infinity pool, to be a cool respite from the Cabo solar. The open eating room and open-hearth kitchen encourage friends to look at the cooking and mixology occurring throughout. For particular occasions and out of doors activations, YAYA will overflow onto the resort’s El Limonero garden, along with alfresco seating adjoining to the restaurant.

With Godinez’s energetic, elemental live-fire cooking, YAYA is one other jewel in Chileno Bay Resort’s crown, and the restaurant is opening simply in time to permit guests an opportunity to dine on the lodge, which had turn into tougher to ebook on quick discover due to Comal’s success and recognition. And it’s nice to see a lodge model placing the highlight on girls’s contributions to the culinary scene, each traditionally and by way of cutting-edge up to date contributions. Make reservations here.