Virgilio: It s something that means a lot to both of us. We have done Gelinaz since Ghent, then Lima. We developed lots of frinedships, and I do remember, you know? When we are cooking, our restaurants are taking much of our time, and for good reasons, no complaint… then there comes Gelinaz, an unique event where you can cook something really different, meet other people and do some other stuff, learn from collegues and this unique creative environmnet that Gelinaz do, and then of course … because we see pretty much locals coming to our places and this is another way to do and offer something unique and connected to another part of the world, more fun and a good feeling.

Pia : We will take over Mayo .. our latest concept to begin and wellcome guest. They will see our collective work with the recipes as a collage, and we will be serving food in difrent locations until going up to KJOLLE RESTAURANT floor.

Music by Maribel .. who prepares the tracks for the experiences which will go live, and the place will look very different, lights will be very down and images will go from the ceiling to the walls .. we have never transformed the restaurant like this.

Pure enjoyment

Pia: We decided to call most of all our firnds because now it is a pretty good reason to stay together and take any opportunity to have fun regardles the current situation – you know we have been receiving not very good news since March , now instead things are healing here.

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She does something very eclectic and I just can say l love the way she has been running her restaurant with so much strenght , it is a very well known spot in Lima.

She is alleays pushing and creating new proposals in our local big Lima cit , she does TV too, she’s lots of fun to be with.

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We used to work together and his restaurant is our neighbour, we love his place – very casual and yet elegant, smart food, he is from Venezuela and well traveled, so we are allways ready to see new things coming from his kitchen.

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We don’t need bo introduce the Astrid y Gaston restaurant, and how much they all mean to all of us, now that Jorge is cooking the place is having anither great evolution thanks to him

Fun guy .. he has one of the funniest way of loughimg and hace fun of things ,

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She is doing something special, actually she came to cook to MAYO, one of the ideas we do during and after the lockdown, and her dishes were anazing. She is very talented and she will be opening her restaurant in Lima soon, and it is great that people get to know her food already. She is another great chef who knows a lot and does a lot too.

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This is the new sanctuary of the Peruvian tabernas. Jose is a master of the Peruvian seasoning – it is something he has in his blood, his resturant has this thing that you can see as a classic, being quite new for the category of the old local tabern, this is the food we enjoy as Peruvians in a crazy way.

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He is doing food, another way to see Peruvian food – a la carte, tasting menues, experimces in his place Yachay .. a farm on the coast by the sea .. freshest menu we have ever had, he is also an old friend, well as all of them .

Jaime is a hard working man, we like to see him with his three young girls …

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I think he needs no presentation, he is a machine! A good frind of Virgilio and I.

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This is the first time we do something with Rodrigo. It is something we were wanting for long time, and talked about and here is the opportunity, his food is from Rafaels, anither iconic restaurant that Limeans love.

Loved them, surprised .. lots of ingredients to play with

Seven samurai.

We take the recipes in groups of two and we will let the two chefs do whatever they feel, using local ingredients will be challenging. Nirvana unplugged.

What are you looking forward to and what is the greatest challenge?

We want to do big changes to the recipes and of course keep something of the soul of the creator.

 

After Gelinaz, what comes next?

Wow, we are still working to finish our Casa Tupac place.. we have three restaurants here and the place looks like never finished to give us space to welcome the creative Mater iniciativa team and their ideas.

Then of course we wil fly to Cusco to finish our reopening, Mil is waiting for us, so December and January we will spend  in the mountains 🙂