After years cooking in some of NYC's best restaurants, the chef is exploring her Chilean roots.
this spring. Using traditional Chilean techniques, she preserves mussels by smoking them, then rehydrates them in a black garlic-chile broth. She serves that with freshly steamed mussels brushed with an onion glaze.
Everything else about Blamey’s experience in the kitchen is new too, which is in stark contrast with the “traumatic” environments she’s worked in in the past.
At the 50-seat Mena, which is named after Blamey’s great-aunt, she doesn’t have to have a giant menu. She can have 12 dishes. At Mena, she doesn’t have to serve burgers and steaks just because they’re tied to the history of that location. She can make wholly unique things like squash pavlova and wild rice empanadas. At Mena, working with management doesn’t involve “trying to have a combative conversation with people who really don’t understand what I’m talking about.
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