It started in a recording studio in Buenos Aires.
Ñako’s father ran it, and Ñako used to go out and visit him since he was a boy. Somewhere between the studio and the street he was handed his first empanada. It stuck. So did the music.
He grew up in Madrid, went on to edit Kerrang! in Spain, and spent the next couple of decades in music. The empanadas never quite left him. Years later, living in London, he realised nobody here was making them the way he remembered.
Then he met Nico. Argentinian, a chef, years in kitchens in London, Spain and Ibiza, and before all of that his native Buenos Aires. He had the one thing Ñako didn’t: his grandmother’s recipes. He still follows them. Hand-shaped, every single one.
And finally Annabel, who took on the job of turning two men’s enthusiasm into a business. Marketing, branding, and the small matter of getting everybody organised. Without her it would still be a very good conversation in a bar.
Three backgrounds. One shared ambition to bring fame to empanadas in the UK.
