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POV: when you’re in your most happy place 🫠

POV: when you’re in your most happy place 🫠

📸: @rachelthewolf

Today is a special one for us. Considering we are

Today is a special one for us. Considering we are literally named Madre after @ivan_vasquez_’s mom, it’s only fitting we honor her today! Happy Mother’s Day Lucila, and all the other incredible mothers out there who work tirelessly to provide the best they can.

A while back we had the pridige to travel to Oaxaca with @kfredphoto who wrote an incredible story in @lifeandthyme. She took these pictures, and wrote these beautiful words:

“On cue, Vasquez’s mother, Lucila, walks up to the terrace wearing a loose red dress and carrying a large bowl of pollo enchilado resplendent in avocado leaves. She greets us warmly, brushing her soft butterscotch cheek against each of ours in turn. The electric scents of cinnamon and chili cling to her like static. It’s obvious we are about to be treated to the very best of Madre from the creator herself.

“When I ask Lucila how she feels about Vasquez naming his restaurant after her, she buries her face in her hands and begins to cry. “I feel the love that he has for me,” she says. After a couple minutes she sits up, pride behind the tears in her eyes. “He’s working very hard. Hopefully God will bless him with all his dreams and all his goals. For me, I just hope he keeps at it.”

droppin hot into your feed to get you planning din

droppin hot into your feed to get you planning dinner tonight… come by for oysters con ceviche de chapulines, stay for some mezcal 🦪🦗

we are so excited to share we will be hosting a ve

we are so excited to share we will be hosting a very special two-night event April 12 & 13, screening @sonsofmezcal in West Hollywood. The film is an extraordinary ode our favorite agave spirit, and you can purchase tickets for dinner & the movie via link in our bio.

About the documentary: Mezcal is more than an intoxicating spirit. It is the sacred link that binds modern-day mezcaleros to their ancestors. Sons of Mezcal transports you into this living history, as it follows four families passing their traditions on to the next generation.

LIMITED TIX AVAIL

Tickets are $175 and include:
• Welcome Cocktail
• Zapotec Ceremony
• 3 course dinner
• 4 Mezcal flight (mezcalero’s ft in the film)
• Sons of Mezcal film screening
• Director Q&A with @werkcreative

in anticipation of this weekend’s @maestrosdelme

in anticipation of this weekend’s @maestrosdelmezcal where Ivan will be judging, let’s talk mezcal!!

This bottle of @chacolomezcal lineño A. Angustifolia is exclusive to us.

Chacolo Lineño is made with maguey Lineño (agave Angustifolia) in Jalisco. so yes, the powers that be won’t call it mezcal, but we are here to tell you, it is. Lineño is one of the fifteen agave Angustifolia grown by this producing family.

So, while today Jalisco is not part of the Denomination of Origen for mezcal, we can still enjoy “vino de mezcal” from the state.

Thank you to the Partida Family for all you do for mezcal, Jalisco and beyond.

Stay tuned, next time we’ll get more into the breakdown of the history of vino de mezcal 💫🇲🇽

📸: @nfocus_productions

we’ve got some updates for everyone! first, back

we’ve got some updates for everyone! first, back by popular demand… our torta de cecina has returned to happy hour with homemade bolillo!!

next.. LIVE MUSIC IS BACK! Schedule below:

FRIDAY IN TORRANCE
Mariachi Santa Monica 7-10pm

SATURDAY IN TORRANCE
Carlos Y Charlos 7:30-10:30pm

SUNDAY IN TORRANCE
Rosalie Rodriguez 5-8pm

TUESDAYS IN WEHO
Voz Bohemia 7-10pm

holy mezcal 🙏🏽 what a week for mezcal… WHA

holy mezcal 🙏🏽 what a week for mezcal… WHAT A WEEK FOR US. our gratitude is endless. If you picked up the @latimes this weekend, you may have seen @estarla’s piece on “everything you need to know to be a better mezcal drinker” ft @ivan_vasquez_

Esther, you nailed it 🔨

“Ivan Vasquez, the Indigenous owner of Los Angeles’ Oaxacan restaurant Madre has an almost puritanical commitment to high-quality, sustainable mezcal and destilados de agave, as well as the independent producers behind them”

read the rest in our stories. thank you to our producers, to our patrons, to our community. this week has humbled us 😢

ok, remember how we told you we don’t carry “t

ok, remember how we told you we don’t carry “tequila” anymore? well @ivan_vasquez_ sat down with @lifes_a_butcha of @lataco to talk it through. we cannot express how grateful we are to Melissa for her insight and beautiful writing. for a link to the article peep our story, but reading for a snippet below 😭🥰😅

“Vásquez eliminated all barrel-aged and industrialized tequila and mezcales at his restaurants, taking a stand to fill his twenty-two-page “mezcal bible” of a menu with nothing but 100% agave distilled spirits from small, independent producers in Mexico, many of them indigenous, who use traditional methods and operate outside of the standardized, nationally-sanctioned spirits industry.”

yes you’re right, we don’t carry tequila. but… it’s complicated. this ain’t your every day tequila flight. these are mezcal de tequila… what does that mean? well technically if it’s not made within the DO of mezcal #, it can’t be called mezcal.

but these agave spirits from @tequilagrandovejo @cascahuin @drinkfortaleza and @tequilatapatio are all made in the artisanal process

stop by and try this very special flight to learn why Ivan is so passionate about equalizing the playing field and making space for these special spirits.

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ABOUT US

Creative Mexican chow paired with artisanal mezcal & tequila at this vibrant eatery with a patio.

MADRE TORRANCE

1261 Cabrillo Ave #100,
Torrance, CA 90501
Phone: (310) 974-8005
Email: Write to Us!

Madre Culver City

10426 National Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Phone: (310) 559-4732
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Madre West Hollywood

801 North Fairfax ave#101 Los Angeles ca 90046
Phone: (323) 850 8518
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Madre National:
Sun-Thur 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat 10am-11pm

Madre Torrance:
Sun-Thurs 11am-9pm
Fri-Sat 11am-10pm

Madre Fairfax:
Sun-Thurs 11am-10pm
Friday-Sat 11am-10pm

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