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Gustavo and Kate Romero
September 9 was a good day for Gustavo and Kate Romero of at Oro by Nixta, in Minneapolis.
That was the day Bon Appétit published its coveted “Best New Restaurants” list, which this year included the husband-and-wife team’s corn-focused restaurant that debuted in October 2023.
It was Oro’s use of heirloom corn, in fact, that so impressed the magazine’s judges, who embarked on a six-month expedition to find worthy restaurants that had opened between March 2023 and March 2024.
Bon Appétit celebrated “this moment of collective effort with four awards,” including the “Sustainability Stewards” award that went to Kate and Gustavo Romero, whom the magazine praised for “championing heirloom corn.
“Corn is a shape-shifter at Oro by Nixta. It may blend into a burnt orange molote, a masa-based fried dumpling made of sweet potato and hibiscus, or be nixtamalized for a steely indigo tortilla that cradles celery root batons cut thick like steak fries,” Bon Appétit said. “Whatever the hue and final form, the corn — an array of colorful heirloom varieties sourced from Mexico — simultaneously satisfies and excites.”
The Oro by Nixta menu also includes tlayudas — something we mentioned in a story in the March/April issue of el Restaurante.
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