Ixchel – Bringing a Taste of Mexico to Chelsea’s Kings Road
Late November 2023 saw the launch of Ixchel, the highly anticipated Mexican restaurant and Tequila bar that opened in the heart of Chelsea from Fairbairn Capital, offering a Tulum-inspired experience. Featuring a tapas-style menu curated by Mexican-born Head Chef Ximena Gayosso Gonzalez, who has an impressive background, including work at Michelin-starred Brat in Shoreditch. Ixchel’s menu showcases a wide range of flavours and aromas, emphasising fresh, locally sourced ingredients to reinterpret traditional Mexican dishes like ceviches, tacos, and tostadas and TLE’s Simon Rumley recently experienced the restaurant. Read onto discover more.
Immediately noticeable from its King?s Road exterior, Ixchel?s interior is hidden from the public by ceiling-to-floor opaque cream curtains. Not only does this unique conceit shroud the Mexican restaurant in an intriguing mystery but it creates a virtual cocoon, an oasis of insularity for diners to forget London?s hustle and to focus instead on the feast inside. Inspired by Tulum?s beauty and tranquillity (the non-tourist part, naturally), Ixchel?s interior design is idiosyncratic for London but thoughtful and elegant.
Pastel-coloured and abstract wall murals, poured concrete floor, cacti, jungle greenery, and a bamboo ceiling evocative of an Indian chief?s jungle residence all conjure up the specific foreign destination. Trance-like dance music blends into the background for an atmosphere which is noticea...
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