Jesse Roberts
Neighborhood favorite Qusqo Bistro opened a plant-based, delivery-only ghost kitchen on Thursday, May 13, called Llama Love Vegan. It’s an expansion of the 13-year-old West LA restaurant, where owner Lucy Haro developed a menu with traditional Peruvian dishes that could be customized with meat or made all-vegan with vegetables.
For years, Haro served plant-based dishes from her Qusqo kitchen and found a demand with not only vegan customers, but omnivores wanting to eat less meat. All of Qusqo’s sauces are vegan, so Haro simply added meat or vegetables to sauces like aji verde or aji amarillo. It was a natural fit, says Haro. “We do have a lot of vegan sauces and indigenous ingredients that come from our native roots. In Latin America, natives use a majority of plant and fruit-based diets because meat can be a luxury.” she says.
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By: Jen Russon
Whether you hail from a Latin American city or seek the kind of cultural experience only those places can offer, the recently opened Waao Market and Bakery delivers.
Store owner Olga Zapata said they opened their doors on December 10, and she wants the Coral Springs community to know they are here.
“I’m from Colombia. Excellent pastries and coffee, the kind people from Latin America expect, are at Waao ‘wow’ is what I hope people say when they step inside,” said Zapata.
Clad in a red Waao cap and apron, Zapata likes taking visitors down aisles crammed with iconic Latin brand names.