Gustu

Claus Meyer, the co-founder of Noma, and his Melting Pot Foundation, founded Gustu in 2013. With the restaurant he wanted to start a new Bolivian gastronomic movement and give underprivileged young people a purpose in life by teaching them how to cook. The restaurant is now an independent company that also has the culinary MANQA schools In “El Alto” of La Paz. Many of the students are now working in the restaurant and other restaurants in in La Paz and around Latin America. The Danish chef Kamilla Seidler, voted best chef of Latin America and an avid vegetable chef who also attaches great importance to sustainability, managed it till 2019, and opened her own restaurant in Denmark, Lola with a social purpose.  Chef Marsia Taha Mohamed became the head chef for many years and opened recently her own great 4 radishes restaurant Arami in La Paz.  Today Abraham Teo Aro is the chef and Coral Ayoroa is the GM and also the executive jury chef for the Bolivian version of Master Chef. Speaking of a powerful team!   They created a great Pure Plant Experience menu with a very specific “Gustu”-signature in the dishes, rich of vegetables and fruits from Bolivia. All products used, are from small local producers and Gustu has even a unique Laboratory to experiment. Gustu uses only local Bolivian products.