Fans of La Monita and Billy’s Smokehouse know how passionate Billy Bautista is when it comes to his Mexican cooking. Now he’s joined with three other chefs — Mauriicio Rosales, Beto Garcia, and Arturo Villegas — to create the omakase-style Santiaga Mexican Cuisine.
Situated atop Billy’s Smokehouse, Santiaga offers flavor-packed dishes from popular and lesser known Mexican regions woven into an epic culinary narrative. If you’re new to the cuisine, fear not, as Bautista, along with his fellow chefs, take turns guiding diners through each dish in a Ted Talk-like presentation. Kasama “Ao” Laopanich also grows her own chilies, vegetables, and nopales for the cooking here.
Don’t let the “omakase” label scare you. Just like La Monita, Santiaga serves Mexican specialties at affordable prices. On our last visit, Bautista introduced us to his…
