Overview

"Ceci's Kitchen" opens its doors in July, 2017 as a specialty pizza and salad restaurant in Bogotá, Colombia. It’s also our goal to be an active laboratory of straightforward, sustainable, and delicious food; progressively adding items to the menu at par with our evolution. This is a place where you’ll want to hang out every day: have lunch with one of our carefully curated salads or personal pizzas, grab a fruit and veggie extract to go; get some work done in the afternoon—sheltered in the soft company of a steaming cup of coffee and a sweet crostata—or share drinks with friends anytime. Who is Ceci though? It all started when she was very little. She used to sneak into the kitchen, uninvited, while they were preparing the "knead" (a Colombian idiolect referring to the making of bread and cake mixtures). She would sit at a long wooden table that she remembers vividly; sink her little hands in the dough, shape it into wobbly spheres, feel so grown up in the process. Then wait, swinging her legs happily, dreaming—amidst the scent starting to creep from the oven—of the time when the goods would be baked and she would claim a hefty portion. But that wasn’t all, Ceci also swooned over sugared jelly candies and loved rice pudding. When she was older, she’d prepare “masato” (popular fermented beverage) and “salpicón” (tropical fruit salad drink) and sell them after school. She liked business intuitively—the buzzing expectation of customers—but above all, she liked to feed and care for people. "Ceci's Kitchen" is a homage to those whom, like Ceci, conjure an exuberant garden on arid land; who dust things off, open windows, mop the floors with cinnamon water, and banish melancholy with a steaming homemade dish. Here we celebrate the joy of cooking, eating, and sharing; of carving out spaces for contemplation amid everyday chaos. We strive to evoke the feeling of being in the kitchen of someone who loves us. Ceci's kitchen is that place. Welcome! #ceciskitchen #ceciskBOG