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Chef Pía León outside Mauka restaurant in Cusco.

Pía León’s new restaurant Mauka celebrates Cusquenian cuisine

Peruvian chef Pía León has opened a new restaurant, at the Palacio Nazarenas hotel in Cusco.

The restaurant is called Mauka after an endangered Incan root vegetable. It will serve as a vehicle to promote, preserve and celebrate Cusquenian cuisine and the rich biodiversity of the terroir, which traverses environments as different as the high altitude of the Andes, to the Amazon rainforest.

Chef Pía León's career

The chef, whose work at her Kjolle restaurant, in Lima, won her the accolade of World’s Best Female Chef in 2021, works extensively with her husband Virgilio Martínez on their mission to elevate Peruvian gastronomy through their restaurant Central, also in Lima, and Mil in the Andes. Together they work to collate traditional Peruvian farming and cooking techniques, to empower local indigenous communities and reframe the foodways of the South American country in a sustainable way.

A dish of beef cheek at Mauka restaurant in Cusco.
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