Tequila! Head to MadCo in Chennai for all things Mexican this week

At MadCo, Chennai’s intimate speakeasy, we sip connected a cocktail inspired by some a michelada and a picante, and wound into a buttery Mexican grilled food with immoderate queso brew sauce. All that seems to beryllium missing is simply a sombrero, for those cleanable Instagram photos of course. 

For the adjacent fewer days, the speakeasy volition big a Mexican popular up, with a nutrient paper curated by Chef Mathangi Kumar, and cocktails to spell with.

There are a enactment of cocktails to take from and Rohit Rajput, the bartender astatine MadCo is excited astir olives, gooseberry and adjacent a concealed blistery condiment helium has perfected that features successful the drinks. If you similar saccharine notes, spell the Marigold Highball mode and if it is savoury flavours that you crave, the sathukudi cocktail comes with 3 antithetic types of brackish connected the glass; regular, a spicy Andhra one, and coriander. 

Ancho chiles, among the astir fashionable chillies utilized successful Mexican cuisine person been imported and determination is simply a dilatory cooked beef feature successful the birria chat. Also effort the squid karuvad, dried squid which is simply a speciality from Keelakarai connected immoderate panko-fried calamari. Because this is Mathangi’s mentation of Tex Mex, expect a batch of fiery section flavours arsenic well.

“I wanted to play astir with Mexican staples and portion the paper is nutrient heavy, determination is simply a batch that volition entreaty to the vegetarians. The quesarotta for instance, comes stuffed with paneer, and we besides person grilled babe maize tossed successful a cowboy food and orangish miso glaze,” Mathangi explains. 

We tuck into fajita chicken, affluent with cheddar and stuffed betwixt fluffy fried murphy buns, a panko crusted calamari that comes heaped with a generous sprinkling of squid karuvad, and semolina fried food served connected creamy cauliflower puree past topped with gobi 65, salsa and onions. The maize tortillas present are made from masa corn, which is simply a bully alteration from the store bought tortillas you spot everywhere.

For the mains, the paper features roasted full peppers stuffed with lemon-coriander rice, with the enactment to adhd juicy bits of chorizo for non-vegetarians. A creamy maize rigatoni, tossed successful a ail food and achromatic vino sauce, celebrates each things corn, befitting of a Mexican pop-up.

Owing to the ongoing LPG crisis, MadCo had downsized their paper and closed for luncheon work conscionable implicit a week ago. They past did an overnight pivot with induction stoves. “I americium precise arrogant of however resilient the squad was. In 48 hours, everyone worked unneurotic and turned the full room electric,” says Santhosh Zachariah Abraham, MadCo’s managing partner. He adds that the pop-up is, successful galore ways, a solemnisation of his team, and their mode of telling customers they are back, and acceptable for caller challenges.

The Mexican pop-up astatine MadCo volition tally from Tuesday onwards for some luncheon and dinner. For reservations, interaction madco _chennai connected Instagram.