One of the chefs you shouldn’t lose sight of is Irving Cano, who has become known for leading restaurant projects in important hotels.
This year he decided to finally open his own restaurant, whose concept we love because it not only serves delicious contemporary Mexican dishes but also encompasses several culinary spaces in the mansion where it is located, which complement the experience.
Chef Irving Cano has always been known for basing his creations on traditional Mexican cuisine, but with his very particular stamp of creativity. At Quanax, his new restaurant in San Miguel de Allende, you can enjoy dishes such as grilled octopus sopecitos with chicharrón marinade, Quesillo, and xoconostle pico, or Esquites with Suadero and marrow, grasshopper mayonnaise and parmesan cheese.
Another must-try is a dry noodle that he prepares with tomato juice, chipotle, and a Kimchi made with annatto seeds, which is accompanied by bacon that is smoked with mesquite and maple honey.
Don’t forget to try the ceviche with tiger’s milk, green apple, and passion fruit, as well as the corn pie, a recipe from his mother that he transforms when accompanied with figs, pastry cream with a touch of eggnog, a caramel liqueur sauce, and Cajeta ice cream.
To start the day off right
The pleasant surprise we had when we were in Quanax, the new restaurant that you should visit in San Miguel de Allende, is that you can visit it at different times of the day. If you go in the morning, a warm and aromatic drink awaits you from Café Ictze, a coffee shop that offers specialty coffee, located at the entrance of the house where Quanax is located.
Quanax restaurant dishes
They use high-quality beans from Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Nayarit, Guerrero, and Puebla, among other states, with which they prepare delicious espressos and cappuccinos.
Afterward, you can have breakfast on Chef Irving Cano’s morning menu, with dishes such as chicken enmoladas with black chichilo mole with plantain, cheese and, his special touch, raspberries, or the delicious Motuleños eggs on a panucho with red tomato sauce, cheese ball, chamoy peas and fried plantain.
Great afternoons for dessert
If you go in the afternoons to Quanax, the new restaurant that you must visit in San Miguel de Allende, you will have three options to spend a super pleasant dessert. One is with the help of the new wine shop Mexiwine, where you can buy labels that are not so easy to find in San Miguel de Allende and at a very good price, in addition to uncorking them and pairing them with the chef’s dishes.
The other is the Reserva de la Familia wine cellar, where you will be invited to design your own cocktail based on some ingredient suggestions and the different labels of this tequila. Finally, there is the mixology bar, which consists mainly of Mexican spirits and the use of national ingredients.
Try the Jamaica criollo cocktails, which have rum, Jamaica, pink vermouth and cinnamon, or one of their signature drinks: Oaxa, with strawberry, passion fruit, mezcal, basil and a touch of worm salt, and Carajillo Quanax, with corn liquor, espresso and colored tortilla.
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