Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan
Food reviewer Ameya Charnalia finds authentic Mexican food in Orleans. Smart, engaging, straight up. Ottawa Morning connects you to the city inside the capital.
Food reviewer Ameya Charnalia finds authentic Mexican food in Orleans. Smart, engaging, straight up. Ottawa Morning connects you to the city inside the capital.
Founded by Mexican-Canadian entrepreneur Miguel Angel Jiménez Reyes, Tortilla Maker serves freshly-made tortillas, their own line of salsas from family recipes, and delicious tamales. Tamale flavours include chicken and pork options with or without rajas, as well as a vegetarian mushroom-based tamale. One sweet guava and cheese option exists for dessert, too. After years of living in Oaxaca, I was thrilled when this place opened in 2023, and have eaten their items many a time — lucky for me, they’re right down the street from Gutsies, so I can get both treats at once.
Con su característica creatividad y fortaleza de los latinos, un mexicano en la ciudad de Ottawa busca conservar a la tradicional tortilla mexicana elaborada con el sistema de Nixtamal. Una forma de fabricación que incluye la molienda del maíz blanco y posteriormente el uso de una máquina muy típica de las tortillerías mexicanas.
We’re thrilled to announce our next pop-up with one of the best kept secrets in Ottawa’s East End…our friends at Tortilla Maker.
Driven by nostalgia for fresh corn tortillas at a time when he couldn’t fly back home to Mexico, The Tortilla Maker came to fruition.
The first thing the Jimenez-Bucur family wants you to know, their shop Tortilla Maker is not a restaurant. It seems that people are showing up expecting a sit down meal.
Their business is however a fine destination for some truly authentic Mexican flavours as their recent recognition from the Mexican embassy attests. And now with a new addition to their menu, I needed to return.
Artisan de Tortilla / Tortilla Maker is the first-ever tortillería to open in the National Capital Region. We are bringing the authentic experience of a traditional Mexican tortillería right there in Orléans.
What makes our business model truly groundbreaking, unique is the fact that customers can watch, in-store, the full process of turning the corn grain into tortillas.
For lovers of Mexican food, Aug. 16 was a very happy day. Ottawa’s first and only dedicated tortilleria, Tortilla Maker, opened its doors and the smiles on the faces of the Jimenez-Bucur family told the story.
Angel Jimenez Reyes, Founder/President of Tortilla Maker of Mexican origin, shares his story on how his tastes for tortillas led him to found his entrepreneurship Tortilla Maker.
Artisan de Tortilla / Tortilla Maker is the first-ever tortillería to open in the National Capital Region. They are bringing the authentic experience of a traditional Mexican tortillería to Ottawa. In essence, they are a tortilla bakery, not a restaurant, where customers can buy corn tortillas fresh off the tortilla presses every day, in addition to corn tortilla chips, homemade guacamole and our original salsas – Salsas Carlota.
If you are a corn producer or a vegetable grower, we would like to hear from you. We hope to work with you and support our local farming community.
