Eight local restaurants join the gastronomic proposal of San Marino Shopping in an attractive Food Hall proposal

The space is open and is on the ground floor, in front of the interior decoration store Very much and entering through the accessories store parfois. It is an area gourmet, where eight stores distributed in 1,193.51 square meters have an architectural proposal and unique designs that seek to elevate the experience of visitors to the San Marino Shopping mall. The new food hall brings together restaurants with different styles of cooking, such as Pink Mezcal, Bonfy Burger, Gourmet Market, pigro, noah, The Spanish, Go Green Y Chokolat.

For Diana Carbonariowner of the Italian restaurant chain pigro, sharing space with other restaurants is “healthy competition; that’s what makes a place work.” And he explains: “When we can offer everyone a quality product, it really makes this take off, because you can’t think that every day someone wants to eat in the same place. A consumer will always want to try different things, but he will return to the same space, because it is of quality and there is a good atmosphere”.

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pigro was born in Montañita, where carbonari and her husband have a production plant. Currently they have expanded to Guayaquil, Quito and Manta, with the San Marino Shopping location being the fifth and smallest. The idea of ​​this square is to create an open environment where there is variety and freedom of choice, between snacks, sushi, burgers, salads, etc. For this reason, the premises are limited with capacity, so that there is movement of people and they can rotate in a measured way.

carbonari recommends that visitors to the mall order the cacao ravioli from the menu, a dish that Luca, her husband, created ten years ago. “It is a bitter cocoa mass ravioli, filled with ricotta, pear and walnut, with blue cheese sauce”, describes the Italian-Ecuadorian.

In front of pigro it’s found Noah Sushi Barwhich has been present in San Marino Shopping since 2006. This time they decided to renew themselves, moving to this food court gourmet where they are already offering new combinations of special snacks with traditional ones, sushi, sashimi and cocktails made from sake. Inside of the eight gastronomic proposals is also Bonfy Burgeran artisan hamburger business that emerged in Samborondón 16 years ago.

Mauricio Neirafounder, tells that he started cooking hamburgers for his friends from paintball. “My friends told me “hey, put something else in it” and added a sauce. Right there I found out that the 400 degree bakery had just opened with whom we found a special exclusive bread just for me”. Later, a friend of his managed to Neira sells its burgers at tournaments, then expanded into events, and recently opened its first location at the Driving Range.

Last week Bonfynickname of Neiraclosed its doors at Los Arcos Plaza, km 2 Vía a Samborondón, the restaurant’s last location, to begin a new phase at San Marino Shopping. Neira, assures that most of the time he will be in the Food Hall, his only place, together with the attending staff, and he says that from there they will dispatch all orders at home and they plan to expand the morning menu to about five dishes made with green. “Bolones, maybe a tigrillo, or green tortillas; a bit to change the menu and that people who come to the premises at 10 in the morning can have breakfasts of Bonfy Burger”.

For Gourmet Market, this is his local room in the city. “It comes to be a light proposal, but very complete, there is a great variety: From bakery, pastry, breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as cocktails and wines” he says Rosanna Queiroloowner of the restaurant. want it admits that more than five years ago they waited for the opportunity to have a space in the San Marino Shopping and that it is the first time that they are in a closed shopping center.

The Food Hall project began in January 2022 and finally opened its doors to the public the last week of October. “Here you can come with a group of friends and you know that everyone is going to have something to eat,” said one of the spokespersons for the opening event. Opening hours for all stores are from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. (AND)