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El Xolo

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El Xolo

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El Xolo is a recurring venue in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 23, 2024 and March 31, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Dinner at El Xolo, which is the best restaurant I’ve been to in a very long time”; “The food at El Xolo is better, but it’s beautiful inside”; “My favorite restaurant in San Salvador is El Xolo — one of my favorite restaurants in the world, really. It’s hidden behind a car park”. It most often appears alongside Bitcoin, El Salvador, El Zonte.

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  • Category: Venues
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: August 23, 2024
  • Last seen: March 31, 2025

Appears In

  • [[issues/2024-08-23_collected-agenda-8_full|COLLECTED AGENDA #8]]
  • El Salvador

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

COLLECTED AGENDA #8
August 23, 2024 · Original source
Dinner at El Xolo, which is the best restaurant I’ve been to in a very long time. I’ve never been to a restaurant like this in New York. I’ve rarely been to a restaurant like this in life. It’s a deeply special meal. Food can probably best be described as “Modern Latin Fusion” - small plates, many of them, with foams, emulsions, mousses etc. We order one of everything on the menu. It’s a small enough menu. The best is a crudo with matcha ponzu, cilantro, fried corn and a watermelon basil vodka drink full of clarified ice. I tell my boyfriend's friend across the table about the jaguarundi I saw, and he tells me that jaguars (a different cat) were the very first bio-hackers.
Inline links: El Xolo
It’s hot in the morning but then it’s monsooning in the evening. There’s a party at the house with pure slabs of beef to quote “be eaten only with your hands,” but I’m suddenly so tired and we can’t get in an uber. Dinner at Monarca instead. Translated: The Monarch, if that wasn’t obvious. The food at El Xolo is better, but it’s beautiful inside. Classic. Eating in the garden, the rain has stopped.
Inline links: Monarca
El Salvador
March 31, 2025 · Original source
My favorite restaurant in San Salvador is El Xolo - one of my favorite restaurants in the world, really. It’s hidden behind a car park, listed on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. It doesn’t have a Michelin star but the food is significantly better than at most of the restaurants that do have Michelin’s in places like New York. Open kitchen and slick but not stuck up interior, inexpensive enough that if you go in a group of eight or so you can order every single thing on the menu, a few drinks each, still spend less than $100 per person. Ingredients are sourced from indigenous communities across different regions of El Salvador. It’s a really special experience. Very magical and rare.
Inline links: El Xolo, World’s 50 Best Restaurants

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