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Local favorite Petit Four turns 10

With plenty of canapés, delicious petit fours, and cocktails to please even the most discriminating palate, local patissiere El Petit Four celebrated its 10th anniversary last weekend.

Chef/owners Paco Cardenas and Norma Guerrero offered up an impressive selection of some of their beloved bites including house-baked scones served with crème fraiche and smoked salmon, raspberry and mixed fruit tartlettes, chocolate-dipped strawberries and small mountains of baked croissants and other pastries.

Over the last ten years, Cardenas and Guerrero have baked 68,000 cakes and 34,000 kilograms of cookies, rolled 36,000 kilograms of chocolate truffles, whipped up over 100,000 meringues, and served 136,000 coffees.

For more on El Petit Four, visit them at Mesones 99 or at www.elpetitfour.com.mx. 

Andanza wins prestigious international award

Casa de Sierra Nevada’s restaurant Andanza, won the American Academy of Hospitality Science’s International Five Star Diamond Award in Mexico City at the San Angel Inn.


Fifty of the best restaurants were selected from throughout Mexico as recipients for this year’s awards. The Academy began to award restaurants in Mexico in 1998. The Academy’s International Board of Trustees bestows this honor on Five Star establishments that are deemed to be of pinnacle quality. The International Board of Trustees is made up of respected leaders in the industry and whom themselves, are world travelers.

Andanza opened its doors in September 2007. Executive Chef Gonzalo Martinez Cardenas and team have developed a menu of signature Mexican cuisine. Andanza is located in Casa de Sierra Nevada’s Casa Principal, the former residence of San Miguel de Allende’s Archbishop in the 1580s and an official historical landmark.