Salon G-6: the open-kitchen room where the chef launches his cookbook and the merch smells of wood smoke because it came from the garden grill
Salon G-6 sits on the ground floor of a restored Porfirian mansion on Calle Orizaba, in the heart of Roma Norte. It is a 180-square-metre room with an open-view kitchen, a 26-seat oak communal table, a marble-top central island, an adjoining room for tastings and a cookbook library, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a service freight lift on the side alley with restricted hours, and an English patio with a wood-fired grill for the guest chef. Inside these walls the Mexican chefs with Michelin stars in LATAM have premiered their bilingual (es/en) cookbooks, the kitchen utensil lines that the distributors sell in CDMX and Monterrey have rolled out, the chefs closing their season abroad and opening in CDMX have staged pop-ups, the Oaxaca mezcal producers selling to La Lista restaurants have launched their catalogues, and the university presses have published their native-corn research books with Gates Foundation support. What separates Salon G-6 from a comparable dinner venue is that the merch leaves the patio before the service ends.