Episode #16: Mario Castrellón
Mario Castrellón is the chef of the restaurant of Maito in Panama City.
Mario Castrellón is the chef of the restaurant of Maito in Panama City.
Andrés Morataya is a chef that lives in the on the far coast of the Azuero Peninsula in Panama, in a place called Playa Venao, where he once ran the restaurant Panga.
Joseph Archbold is the chef of the restaurants Receta Michila and Octo in Bocas del Toro, Panama. After working at top restaurants in France, he returned to the place he grew up, taking over the kitchen and hotel his mother once cooked at, Hotel Dona Mara, and recreating it with his own vision. He has been working hard to strengthen the island’s foodways and resurrect forgotten recipes.
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