Two decades after that transformation began, here are the essential places to eat in Valle de Guadalupe.ĭue to early, proactive safety measures and the widespread availability of outdoor dining in Mexico’s wine valley, Valle de Guadalupe was relatively well positioned to weather the COVID-19 pandemic. Those wineries are producing world-class wines to pair with sea urchin, abalone, Pismo clams, yellowtail, and geoduck, and everyone cooks with their own olive oil. Local specialties like grilled quail, roasted pig, oven-roasted lamb, fresh-shucked oysters, and the ubiquitous fish of the day provide plenty of material for Valle de Guadalupe chefs, while the luxury seafood industry and restaurant gardens offer a wealth of ingredients.
The wine, along with Baja seafood and produce, has also attracted the best chefs in Mexico, who cook on Santa Maria grills, in cajas chinas, and in wood-fired clay ovens. Today the area is home to well over 100 wineries and has become a favorite travel destination for people from both sides of the border. Meanwhile, the architects Alejandro D’Acosta and Claudia Turrent dreamed up distinctive, modern, recycled designs for wineries like Casa de Piedra, Vena Cava, Bruma, and Paralelo. In summer, especially during the annual Vendimias wine harvest festival, chefs brought out the campestres (country grills) to carry on the open-flame cooking traditions forged in northern Mexico in the aboriginal fires of the Kumiai.īut romantics like chef Jair Téllez (of Laja) and oenologist Hugo d’Acosta (of wineries like Casa de Piedra, Paralelo, and La Escuelita) conceived of something more for the region: garden-to-table, wine-driven, world-renowned kitchens. The Wednesday farmers market at Rancho El Mogor featured a half dozen baskets of produce and a gentleman selling the pizzas he cooked in a clay oven. In the early 2000s, Mexico’s wine country was a charming destination for huevos rancheros, the odd Moroccan-Mexican restaurant, Molokan museums, a couple of nice bed-and-breakfasts, and a handful of boutique wineries.
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