Chicama is the bohemian beach house of Mama and Papa’s beautiful granddaughter. She is extremely well travelled and has acquired many trinkets from her globetrotting adventures, which adorn all of her shelves and tables. Upstairs is her main entertaining room, where fish and vegetables are cooked over the flames of the robata and the guests drink ice-cold Pisco sours and bottles of sumptuous organic wines to wash down their meals with. Downstairs is her private dining room, which is bathed in candlelight and nestled amongst the secrets of her larder and subterranean kitchen.
est. 2016 by Pachamama Group
Every morning she will walk down to meet the fisherman as they land their daily haul, which might include anything from octopus and sole to monkfish and bream. As she walks back up the winding coastal road toward her hacienda, she will pass through the vegetable market and collect all of the produce she isn’t able to grow herself in her garden, and bring them home to create delicious sauces and dressings to complete her mouthwatering dishes. When the surf rolls in each day, it will bring with it an abundance of varying seafood; and thus so too do her dishes change and adapt accordingly.
She is young and yet all at once smart, sensual and in control of her destiny; and lives each moment as though it’s her last. She loves to party with friends and lives a happy, healthy lifestyle in a small fishing village on the Northern Peruvian coastline. From working alongside her grandmother in the kitchen at Pachamama, when she was a little girl, she has learnt a great deal about herbs, spices, infusions and flavours and so has taken this knowledge to create her own interpretation of Peruvian cuisine, using the freshest local produce available to her.
They are served in the fashion of the rolling waves, and her guests can simply not get enough. These plates are destined to be shared by hungry friends, families and lovers alike straight to her hungry guests from her seafront hacienda, where the tables are always full at both dinner and lunch, and because the locals all love her and the fantastic dishes she creates for them so much... they gave her the name Chicama.
