The Colombian Chefs Revitalizing the Country's Food Scene | Condé Nast Traveler

"Regarded as Cartagena’s most exciting restaurant, this vibrant spot is led by pioneering chef Jaime Rodríguez, a 37-year-old from the Andean Boyacá region who has spent over 14 years traveling Colombia’s “savannah, mountain, and desert” documenting more than 300 native ingredients, especially the foods of the country’s 6.9 million displaced people. The menu showcases the Caribbean north with smartly elevated dishes such as pateburro sea snails and a dehydrated prawn and goat curry eaten by the Wayuu people of the Guajira desert. The aim is to demonstrate that Colombia’s Caribbean is a gastronomic powerhouse and to give a sense of home to communities for whom food may be the only home they carry with them, positioning the restaurant as both a culinary and cultural statement." - Stephanie Rafanelli