Chef Mario Pagan has long been a fixture of Puerto Rico’s restaurant scene, having purchased his first restaurant, Chayote, in the Miramar neighborhood of San Juan in 2000 from late chef Alfredo Ayala ...
This is not your abuela’s mofongo. Unless she makes it with yuca. Oh, and lobster thermidor. This version, which certainly speaks to chef Mario Pagán’s concept of “nueva mesa Latina,” a classic from ...
Chef Mario Pagan burst onto the scene in 2023 with Chayote, his first restaurant outside Puerto Rico and one celebrating the heritage and culinary footprint of Latin cuisine. I lauded Chayote, a Top ...