Taste Of The Town: It’s All About Connecting Crops & Community At Los Felix In Coconut Grove

COCONUT GROVE (CBSMiami) – Los Felix, located connected Main Highway successful Coconut Grove, has been described arsenic an unfastened emotion missive to the good and astir extinct traditions that marque up authentic Mexican cuisine.

They usage heirloom maize and Milpa farming techniques, which is an ancestral contented of cultivating onshore with bosom awareness. This includes a Molino, wherever maize is ground.

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“Every crockery is truly focused connected maize oregon maize, truthful we’re calling ourselves a Molino. We person an in-house Molino successful the abstraction wherever we’re grinding the maize and making the masa and everything from scratch,” said co-owner Jack Hackler.

Hackler has partnered with acclaimed cook Sebastián Vargas arsenic portion of their recently formed Grassfed Hospitality Group for Los Felix and Krus Kitchen, an artisanal nutrient and earthy vino marketplace located straight supra it.

The sanction was inspired by Mexican movie histrion María Félix and pays homage to the bequest she near connected the region.

“The sanction truly represents that boldness of women and what they person done to make what Mexican cuisine is today. It truly was created by the grandmothers of Mexico and physique connected that,” Hackler said.

The look is fresh, and fun.  On the weekend, a DJ spins vinyl.

The artwork reflects the genesis of maize from the Aztec perspective.

For Colombian-born cook Vargas, it’s each astir connecting crops and community.

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“Food is for everybody, and nutrient is your fuel. Food is our beingness and the mode that we devour impacts everything; however we look, however we consciousness and however we digest everything. So it’s important to marque bully nutrient for everybody,” said the chef.

CBS4’s Lisa Petrillo and Vargas statesman their tasting with chef’s delicious crudo.  It’s caller grouper with aguachile, pickled jicama, avocado aoli, and pepitos oil.

Next the Tetela. It’s stuffed with saccharine potatoes mushrooms and cotija cheese.

“This is stepped up cuisine. This is fancy but astatine the aforesaid time, it doesn’t sensation complicated. It conscionable tastes truly delicious and smart,” said Petrillo.

They extremity connected Esquites, a accepted Mexican thoroughfare nutrient made with American maize and Peruvian maize called choclo.

“The maize is cooked successful a lukewarm broth with juices, immoderate epazote, mayonnaise, cheese, and chili,” explained Vargas.

“First of all, you privation to support drinking up the sauce,” said Petrillo. “This is truly unique. I’ve ne'er tasted thing similar this. It’s truly wonderful.”

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Los Felix is unfastened Tuesday done Sunday. For much info, sojourn www.losfelixmiami.com.