The eatery honors conventional meals from across Latin America, by having an emphasis on Venezuelan food
The outside of Maize Picture: Hailey Bollinger
Maize, a fresh Over-the-Rhine eatery which launched during the early July, focuses on an unique fusion menu that honors old-fashioned meals from across Latin America, by having an emphasis on Venezuelan cuisine.
“It’s difficult to find genuine meals which actually originated in (Latin America) and therefore be2 international are being served the way in which it is said to be and honored just how it must be, ” says Maize co-owner Louisa Reckman. She’s experienced the restaurant company for longer than 14 years, lately given that owner of Queen City broadcast. “I don’t think you can find many restaurants that do that in Cincinnati, and I also believe that was lacking — specially Venezuelan and Puerto Rican (offerings). ”
Fellow co-owner Angel Batista is just an indigenous of Puerto Rico and, inside the first foray to the restaurant company, is adamant about maintaining tradition. He was raised surrounded by various cooking impacts, including fare that is venezuelan. (Puerto Rico is due north of Venezuela, divided by the Caribbean Sea. )
“We do this by actually maintaining these meals, the actual authenticity brought away through the use of a base of tradition, ” he says. “The plating and means we’re bringing things to the dining table, all things are really old-fashioned, maybe not prepared. ”
The restaurant took its title from maize, a corn flour dating back to some 10,000 years and very very first used by indigenous Mexicans. Continue reading “OTR’s Maize bridges a Latin American food gap by having a innovative fusion menu”