Condesa in the 9th: Indira Carrillo is the very definition of a creative, inventive chef whose cuisine is indefinable but good.

Condesa in the 9th is a place I’ve only been a couple of times but its chatty, incredible friendly chef Indira Carrillo changes the menu every few days and the results are astonishing.  Although he’s gone through Mexican, Indian, Japanese, Italian and French kitchens, in his tender 29 years, his food is not "World food" a la Spoon but rather worldly food a la Ze Kitchen Galerie.

Colette and I went with two other worldly food aficionados and we were entranced, once again.  We ordered the four course 38€ menu which of course, turns out to be many more than that:

• a squash seed wafer on top of squash seeds in a beautiful Mexican bowl 
• blettes wrapped around pieces of merlu
• burrata, fava beans and pickled courgettes
• chinchard, asparagus and a rosemary butter-based sauce
• crispy skinned cod with wild garlic, petit pois whole and crushed in a spicy sauce
• crispy skinned duck with carrots and a caraway sauce
• horseradish ice creams with new strawberries
• mignardises in another beautiful Mexican box  (the Chef orders the very pretty pottery dinnerware from New Zealand)

 

 

With two bottles of wine, their water and three coffees our bill was 232€ for four or 116€ a couple for a meal that was unforgettable.