Mateo Granados

Working his way up from the soap and suds at Julie’s Supper Club in San Francisco to more refined kitchen gigs at Bay Area institutions including Masa’s, Manka’s and Dry Creek Kitchen, Mateo Granados now runs Mateo’s Cocina Latina in Healdsburg…Just don’t ask him for generic “Mexican food.” Sworn to sustainability and local farms, Granados describes his “new Latin cuisine” as a culinary Pangaea: “I’m putting the continents together. I can take from Argentina or from Chile or a part of Portugal where they speak Spanish”…When he’s not in the kitchen, Granados is busy with his …Tendejon de la Calle catering business, or bottling hot sauces, or catching a Mexican national team soccer game. – John Beck, Sonoma Magazine