MariQ

Real Name:

Mariana Quiroga

Location:

currently Minneapolis, MN

Best meal I ever ate:

so many... i'll chose our homemade "French Laundry" adventure (great cookbook!), plus L'Etoile (Madison, WI!), with a couple of friends i adore

My current drink of choice:

pisco sour, sauv blanc, gin martinis, etc etc

I really wish I could:

have gone to Il Bulli last year in Spain!

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

paella

My favorite comfort food:

shepperd's pie, or risotto, or a big carbonara!

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

La Belle Vie (Mpls), Fasano (Brazil), Slanted Door (SF), Café at Chez Panisse, Punch (MSP)

My most tattered cookbooks:

Best Recipe (Cook's Illustrated), my Brazilian cookbook, grandpa's recipe book