feliz my babies feliz!
So the experiment that was and is Isla Mujeres has moved to a new place. The experience was fantastic, the people were inspiring and the learning curve for this fifty something chef was worth all the world. The restaurant is built, the menu, wine list, servers and bar are in place. The space is fantastic, seriously one of the most beautiful rooms I have had the good fortune to help birth. So now I move on. Did I want to live on in this beautiful job. of course! But like all things in my career of opening peoples dreams in the form of restaurants, the track is unpredictable and the path unknown. Ilsa proved to be like many challenges I have confronted during my life's passage in kitchens. Language, infra structure, and the staffing, were all at once difficult, befuddling and gratifying. The cuisine, something I felt really conformable with, was even more enlightening that I had hoped. The people were far more complicated than their gentle disposition would ever reveal. Wh