Category Archives: Wahaca

Send us your chilli plant photos and be part of the Wahaca cookbook

Since we opened we’ve been trying our hardest to turn you into green fingered chilli growers with free chilli seeds for over 4 and half million people and counting. The response......

Wahaca voted Sustainable Restaurant Group of the Year

On Monday we went along to the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s first ever awards ceremony and picked up the Sustainable Restaurant Group of the year trophy. We are over t......

The Mexican Spoon Amnesty starts today

Throughout January we’re holding an amnesty at Wahaca. A Mexican Spoon Amnesty. It’s a chance for all of those people (you know who you are), who have pocketed one our 20,000 mi......

The lesser spotted jaguar spotter

This January we’re sending Matt White, of Wahaca Covent Garden infamy, off to Mexico for a 3 week excursion into the wilds of the Yucatan on a mission to help a conservation gro......

Start the year with a clear concsience

In the past 5 years, 20,000 of our specially designed spoons have mysteriously (a-hhem) dessert-ed us and this January we’re giving all those who bring one back to us the chance......

New Dash of Wahaca salsas arrive on our tables

If you’ve been into Wahaca recently, you might have spotted the first of our new Dash of Wahaca salsas which have landed on the tables in the last few weeks. Designed to be spl......

Wahaca goes hi-tec

Would anyone have a clue what QSR ConnectSmart Kitchen Automation is? Not the snappiest name for a piece of software but it's doing wonders for the staff at Wahaca. All five sites have rece......

Sip a free tequila for Day of the Dead

Wednesday 2nd November see’s the culmination of Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations and we wouldn’t want to miss out on the fun, so we’re joining the party by giving away a fr......

Mexican nights out don’t get much better. Win tickets to see Miss Bala and a meal for 2 at Wahaca

This weekend sees the opening of Miss Bala, Mexico’s official entry for the 2012 Oscars, and yet another film that has got the critics going absolutely crazy form Mexican cinema......

The Agustin Gonzales Rug Hooking Project

We were sent an email recently by Sara Worley, a customer who had come across this amazing community project in the small village of Agustin Gonzales located in the central Mex......

Mexican Independence Day at Wahaca

Just when you were starting to think that the end of the summer meant an inevitable slow and depressing decline into wintery doom, along comes Mexican Independence Day to cheer ......

Wahaca goes East

On Tuesday 13th September, we’ll be opening up Wahaca number 5 (or 5 and a half if you’re counting the taco van), and taking a taste of Mexican Market Eating to East London̵......

Wahaca heads into The Dragon’s Cellar

When we were asked by Bibendum, our wine supplier, if we wanted to take part in a tasting to choose a new wine for the list at Wahaca it didn’t take long to find volunteers. But......

Wahaca, Covent Garden.

I won’t beat about the bush, Wahaca is somewhere I’ve wanted to go ever since I head Thomasina Miers of Masterchef and Mexican Food Made Simple had opened her first Mexican restauran......

Growing tension in the #MDIChiliOff

There’s been a flurry of excitement over at the offices of MyDestination.com, where the infighting continues between the boys and girls teams in their chilli plant growing......