The Latest Breaking News from Santiago Lastra

Kurdish kitchens, baked bean alaska and Mexican soul: the best spring cookbooks for 2026 – review

These are the new titles for your kitchen shelf – plus a classic to dust off

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25

How Tate Modern is serving up Frida Kahlo – from canvas to cuisine

The forthcoming Tate Modern retrospective, Frida: The Making of an Icon, promises to go beyond the canvas to explore the construction of an artistic legend. At a recent breakfast press-briefing at KOL, a Mexican restaurant in London, co-curator Tobias Ostrander framed the exhibition as a study in how Frida Kahlo…

The Conversation · Feb 12

Fusion food: What have the world's best chefs been cooking in Copenhagen?

Building on the legacy of Noma and the New Nordic food movement, elite chefs from 26 countries gathered to exchange techniques and recipes.

Euronews · Feb 6

David Ellis reviews AngloThai: How to make a stellar Thai? Slow cook for six years

Anglothai, famous before first service — can it possibly live up to the hype?

Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2024

Fonda, restaurant review: In the end, it's a succession of tacos

Variety is not the name of the game here, says David Ellis — but it does not necessarily need to be

Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2024

This new London restaurant bursts with Mexican flair and flavour

Fonda is London’s new Mexican restaurant, courtesy of chef Santiago Lastra, also behind Michelin-starred Kol. As Mary Cleary discovers, it’s serving up colour and creativity

Wallpaper · Oct 15, 2024

October in London: nine of the best things to do in town this month

From the best in theatre to new restaurants, pop-ups and international art, here’s everything to eat, see and do this month

Evening Standard · Oct 1, 2024

London restaurants opening in October, from Fonda to Fantômas

Mexican in Mayfair, comfort food in St John’s Wood and Japanese cooked by robots: Ben McCormack lifts the lid on October’s essential launches

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2024

Santiago Lastra on his latest restaurant Fonda — and how London learned to love Mexican food

Santiago’s first London restaurant, Kol, remains the UK’s top-rated in the coveted World’s 50 Best Restaurants list

Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2024

Would you pick a restaurant by its house wine?

A restaurant is only as good as its cheapest glass, says wine aficionado Hannah Crosbie

Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2023