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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Inside San Miguel de Allende's New Culinary Culture

Thank you Camie Fenton, Editor of the Atencion newspaper, for putting San Miguel de Allende’s chefs and restaurants front and center and publishing my article, Inside San Miguel de Allende’s New Culinary Culture, in the March, 2026 edition of the Atencion.

A digital copy here: https://www.atencionnews.net/ and a printed copy will be available tomorrow at all news outlets, including Consejo Turístico de San Miguel de Allende.

Featured in the article are 64 game changers, including Chef Jorge Avendaño of Altar in Dôce 18 Concept House, who is on the cover.

Too late for this article were two major changes that will influence the direction of the industry in 2026: Héctor Aguilar Uriarte of Amatte was named the new president of CANIRAC and the arrival of Pueblo Bonito with General Manager, Lucy Ruiz, PR Rose Ruiz, along with Executive Chefs Omar Visaiz of Pueblo Bonito and Anaisa Guevara of La Frida, who was selected as one of Food & Wine Mexico's "Best New Chefs of 2024” and worked in two, three-Michelin-starred restaurants: Arzak in San Sebastián, Spain, and Addison at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego. We dined with her this past Saturday and Pueblo Bonito definitely raised the bar for the food scene in SMA.

Thirteen photographs introduce you to the people who are pushing SMA’s gastronomy into the next chapter; the chefs and restaurateurs who collectively represent thousands of people who work in SMA’s restaurants and passionately promote the gastronomy of SMA every day, currently with all eyes on Chef Donnie Masterton, who is celebrating the 18 year anniversary of The Restaurant this week and just launched a new NGO, Let the Kids Cook, benefiting culinary students, kids, chefs and restaurants in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato and Mexico.

Enjoy the read