EXCLUSIVE: San Jose: Mexico City culinary star named to head Copita restaurant in Willow Glen

He’s opened two dozen restaurants in Mexico’s gastronomic capital, notably Litoral and Balmori, been heralded as the “new face” of the country’s culinary world and cooked in Michelin-starred kitchens in Europe. He’s taught at several culinary schools. Won a reality TV chef’s competition. Written a cookbook. Headed a prestigious association of chefs.

And now he’s brought that rich culinary background to the Bay Area.

Azari Cuenca-Maitret, 49, has been named executive chef for the eagerly anticipated Copita Willow Glen, the second cantina from celebrity chef Joanne Weir, who opened the award-winning Copita in Sausalito in 2012. Weir and business partner Michael Mindel, an industry veteran, met Cuenca when they were

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