A Way of Being in the World

For years, we traveled, cooked, and shared tables in different places — from sidrerías in northern Spain to family kitchens in Mexico or agriturismi in Italy. Different experiences on the surface, yet connected by something deeper. They weren’t spectacular. They weren’t designed. And yet they stayed with us.

A dinner at a sidrería in San Sebastián more than twenty years ago, where we understood that eating is also culture. A meal prepared by a Nahuatl woman, who spoke about her kitchen as something ordinary, and yet it carried a depth that was difficult to explain. Tables in Italy, where cooking with a family mattered more than any recipe. That’s where it all began. Not as a project, but as a way of seeing and appreciating.

The Places That Stay With Us

That perspective gradually became writing. We have published articles on gastronomic travel in publications such as Cocina Fácil (Mexico), moving through tables and cities like Bilbao and Madrid, and in National Geographic Traveler Latin America, where we explored places such as La Rioja, the whiskey distilleries of Dublin, and the landscapes and cemeteries of Ireland. Not as guides, but as a way of understanding places through what happens within them.

We know what we are looking for and, above all, we know what we are not looking for: we are not looking for mass experiences, nor for the obvious or the things people do simply out of inertia. We look for places where things happen with intention, where the produce matters, where time is not rushed, and where the experience does not need to explain itself.

Matxalen, Basque, with years of life in the United States, brings a structured and precise perspective, where doing things properly is never optional. Silvia, from Madrid, with a life between Europe and the Americas and a family shaped by different cultures, brings a more intuitive vision, marked by conviviality, time, and the table.

We Like to Create Moments Worth Holding On To

What unites us is a shared understanding of quality — not as visible luxury, but as coherence. This project comes from there: from many years of living experiences that are never forgotten, and from the intention to create others that live up to the same standard.

We like to create moments worth holding on to. And almost always, like everything important, they begin in the same place: around a table.