Yesterday, Oaxaca Sabe kicked off a week of delicious dining; three-course meals, including beer, mezcal, or wine, for only 250 pesos per person at some of the top restaurants in the city. As readers of Oaxaca-The Year After already know, blogger buddy Chris and yours truly couldn’t resist and we were first to the table at Las Quince Letras. No sooner had we been seated in the lovely shaded patio, than chef Celia Florian came out to welcome us.
With every course, she continued to check in with us, explaining the ingredients and asking our opinion. She also turned the tables on us and took out her smart phone to take our picture!
Sopa de tortilla de tomate de milpa (Tortilla soup with tomatillos and little balls of quesillo)
Camarones flameados en mezcal con mole negro de chicatana (Shrimp flambéed in mezcal on a bed of black mole made with the rainy season insect, chicatanas)
Helado de maracuya con buñelos con miel de piloncillo (Maracuya sorbet with buñuelos drizzled with a honey of piloncillo, which is similar to brown sugar)
Every dish conveyed Chef Florian’s pride in her heritage — from the fresh locally sourced ingredients to her original interpretations of traditional Oaxacan cuisine — and then there was the love and joy she radiated.
By the way, this is what it looks like to sit across the table from a blogger…
Chris photographing his Chile en Nogada
If it’s Tuesday, it must mean another Oaxaca Sabe restaurant to try… ¡Buen provecho!
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View From Casita Colibrí 
I guess you know how bummed we are to be missing Oaxaca Sabe this year. You’ll have to eat our share! (and drink)
As you no doubt have gathered, I am having no trouble eating my share and yours! As for drinking, after having a cervesa on Monday and a mezcal on Tuesday completely knocked me out for the rest of the day, I’ve been sticking to aguas. 😉 Bummed you’re also going to miss the opening Saber del Sabor buffet at the Plaza de la Danza on Oct. 9. ;-(