Apapacho Taqueria hosts an extraordinary 8-Course Tasting Dinner: Las Quince Letras × Apapacho, a rare mother-son collaboration bringing one of Mexico’s most influential culinary voices to Washington, DC. The evening unites Celia Florián, the revered Oaxacan chef behind the iconic Las Quince Letras, with her son, Alam Mendez, who now leads Apapacho Taqueria in Union Market’s La Cosecha. Get tickets now!
Together, they present an intimate, eight-course tasting that explores Oaxaca’s moles as a living culinary language, layered, ancestral, and deeply expressive. Each course reflects memory, technique, and care, blending Chef Celia’s preservation of tradition with Chef Alam’s contemporary voice shaped by his journey from Oaxaca to the nation’s capital.