{"id":75942,"date":"2021-05-01T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=75942"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:49:41","slug":"viva-la-revolucion-eat-drink-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/viva-la-revolucion-eat-drink-west\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Viva la Revoluci\u00f3n! – Eat Drink West"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the R\u00edo Bravo to Tierra del Fuego<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"ABOUT two-and-a-half years ago there was a revolution on Armstrong Street as Pancho stormed onto the local food scene, headed by business partners Jose Fernandez and Simone Baur-Schmid.<\/p>\n

Dually named for Fernandez\u2019s pet monkey back in Venezuela, and also his uncle, Pancho is a humble Latin American style cantina aiming to recapture all the things Fernandez loved growing up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to create the best simple, relaxed and good quality experience people could have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn South America you go to these little suburban restaurants and sometimes you\u2019re sitting in the kitchen if there\u2019s no tables. People come in and we know what they want, because they are having the same thing every single day. For me it\u2019s beautiful, because I grew up with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents had a restaurant for 30 years in Venezuela. I grew up with people, with kids, they became part of my family, and that\u2019s what we want to do here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Meigas, Fernandez\u2019s seven-year-old tapas bar located across the street, Pancho is all about authentic food and drink, and was born from the special requests at the Spanish restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a lot of customers coming into Meigas saying can you make me some South American food, I want to remember the food that I had there,\u201d Fernandez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like to mix, as people get confused, and that\u2019s how we came to open Pancho.\u201d<\/p>\n

That desire to deliver an authentic Latin American dining experience has created a near-cult like following among Central and South American ex-pats, locals, and visitors alike with a list of flavourful favourites along with an ever-changing specials board.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have Brazilian customers, Columbians, people from Chile, Argentina, and it becomes like their second home,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cPeople are driving from Melbourne and Geelong to have dinner here because of the music and the food.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the little details, people feel like their eating in their neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Due to the highly specialised and authentic menu, produce used at Pancho is a mix of local, and ingredients from further afield.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the 10 boxes of limes a week supplied by Wilsons, but Fernandez also has to trek through African and Asian markets to find things like plantains and other exotic items.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all part of trying to create a menu that\u2019s representative of Latin American culture and cuisine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to cover food from Mexico to Patagonia because our customers are not only Australian,\u201d Fernandez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we have taco, tostada, tamales, arepas, teque\u00f1os from Venezuela, patacon from Columbia, ceviche from Peru, pupusas from El Salvador, and then we have a fish stew in coconut from Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the R\u00edo Bravo to Tierra del Fuego ABOUT two-and-a-half years ago there was a revolution on Armstrong Street as Pancho stormed onto the local food scene, headed by business partners Jose Fernandez and Simone Baur-Schmid. Dually named for Fernandez\u2019s pet monkey back in Venezuela, and also his uncle, Pancho is a humble Latin American […]<\/p>\n

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