Restaurant & Bar Awards 2021

www.lux-review.com Page 19 LUX 2021 Restaurant & Bar Awards Mai Tai Exótico is the fusion of cultures and flavours. It’s where the best of Asian food culture and the best of American food culture meet, in a tropical and cosmopolitan environment. Mai Tai was born from the Guevara-Bonilla family’s travels around the world, where they experienced first-hand each ingredient, each dish, each technique and each flavour. Mai Tai Exótico Best Cocktail Bar & Restaurant - Zaragoza Mar21291 The Mai Tai kitchen is a secret hideaway, where youth and entertainment go together perfectly. It is a restaurant that is passionate about international food and giving customers the opportunity to travel the world from one place, with the menu maintaining the proximity of local produce fused with the highest quality ingredients from the most remote confines of the globe. This has resulted in diverse and delicious cuisine such as the Pu Pu Platter, which is a very typical Sino-American dish consisting of a tray of meat and seafood snacks, accompanied by a hibachi grill; it’s unique in Zaragoza and represents the spirit of Mai Tai. To compliment the food and enhance the tropical experience, Mai Tai offers a range of exotic drinks and concoctions, which include Caribbean cocktails. Throughout the years, Mai Tai has adapted to the palates of its city; every day, customers are more demanding and looking to tickle their tastebuds with something new. Thus, the cocktails have become more Caribbean and a variety of dishes have been created to offer intense and explosive flavours. To add to the quality of the dining experience, dishes are dressed in tableware created for Michelin Star restaurants, and for delivery and takeaway service, eco-sustainable packaging is used to keep the essence of the restaurant’s dishes as they arrive to customers’ homes. For Mai Tai, hospitality is fundamental; receiving and entertaining customers is the first step that encompasses the entire experience. And it’s just as important that customers receive the best Mai Tai experience and service possible when enjoying their dishes at home. When the pandemic hit, Mai Tai had to rethink its functionality and operability in order to continue developing its business and serving customers, so it signed an exclusive contract with an online food delivery platform, which gave it solid positioning in advertising and marketing, and it began creating a new menu of dishes adapted for delivery and takeaway. An online takeaway order service was developed on its website, and as a result, the business now relies a lot on mobility, relationships and contact. Of course, there is no Mai Tai without its staff. The restaurant’s team is like a family; a highly professional and talented team of waiters, chefs and winemakers who enjoy what they do and make Mai Tai a very competitive company in the guild. In order to ensure that they are always performing at their best, staff are regularly nurtured with training and talks on strengths and points to improve. Mai Tai also relies on the hospitality schools of the city and the province to keep fresh new talent coming. Since its establishment, Mai Tai has received great acceptance from the local public, in the gastronomic press and from the professionals of the sector, along with different awards and recognitions which certainly making opening the door every day worth the effort of the restaurant’s founders. And it can only expect more success as it continues to grow and solidify its brand, with its next venture being its first hamburger range, Burger Höfn, which will be the first burgers in the city with Nordic recipes – a guaranteed success! Company: Mai Tai Exótico Contact: Roger Guevara T. Website: https://www.maitaiexotico.es/