News from El Cielvo y El Oso

Posted on Mar 17, 2014 in Hiroko's Blog

If you are a repeater to my blog posting you remember the story of the restaurant, El Cielvo y El Oso, which I posted last year. El Cielvo y El Oso became the Most Favorite Restaurant in Bogota 2013. Big Congratulations to chefs, Marcela Arango and Camilo Ramirez. That is not the end of the story about these facinating young chefs. Marcela and Camilo was nominated as one of the six best young chefs of 2014 by La Barra organization. It is a Bogota version of James Beard...

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Toyota Event in Bogota, Columbia

Posted on Nov 26, 2012 in Hiroko's Blog

My love to Bogota, Columbia, brought me back again to Bogota. This was my third visit within this year. I cooked for the event for Toyota. My right hand chef was Jeremiah. He is a really great guy to work and play together. He is a good dancer as well. When his restaurant opens…..I will loose the luxury to be with him. Here are some of the photos of dishes which we have created. For the reception we served a tofu-avocado square with gingered miso sauce, braised tender...

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Bogota Food & Wine Festival

Posted on Apr 30, 2012 in Hiroko's Blog

Big Thank You for Bogota Wine & Food Festival and Fundacion Prema for inviting us – Chef Daisuke Hayashi (Sake no Hana, London), Chef Masato Shimizu (15 East, NYC), Chef Shuichi Kotani (Soba Totto, NYC), Sake Sommelier Yasu Suzuki (15 East, NYC), Chef Tsuyoshi Murakami (Kinoshita, Brazil) and Chef Hiroko Shimbo (Hiroko’s Kitchen, LLC, NYC) – to offer a charity Japanese dinner at JW Marriott Hotel in Bogota. The raised money at the dinner was donated...

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