Jaja en Balsa Restaurant Montañita
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Jajá en Balsa Restaurant Montañita offers different gastronomic options for all tastes, with more than 7 options for breakfast, lunch and spectacular dinners in the unique, colorful and original Jajá style.
Every corner tells a story, from the bar with craft beer to the terrace surrounded by plants, it’s a delight! Fresh, healthy, organic, abundant and conscious food. We don’t use microwaves or cans and try to buy local products and freeze as little as possible. We also have a wood-fired pizza oven. All the food is amazing, from breakfast to dinner.
Discover the special seasoning of the Argentinean chef Maxi with his delicious homemade dishes such as sorrentinos, pizzas, burgers, pastas, tacos, or fish dishes in typical Ecuadorian sauces and much more!
Try also our vegetarian and vegan options!
Open every day, from 8.30am to 10.30pm. We also offer home delivery service!
Reservations with Maxi at +593979387014
The story
As we already know, that pandemic changed everyone’s life.
And some changes, besides being necessary, were also positive. Jajá en Balsa is the very example of that.
Maxi Otegui, self-taught Argentine chef and hard worker, already had his own Jajá restaurant in the center of Montañita, but with the Covid-19 crisis it was difficult to sustain it and had to close, continuing with home delivery from home. On our side, El Eden, the Balsa restaurant, had to close in the pandemic four months and we could not sustain the expense or energy to reopen it ourselves.
Then Rasty had the wonderful idea of proposing to Maxi to create a partnership between Jaja and the Balsa, and “Jaja en Balsa” was born!
We had super nourishing talks where we were able to find out how Jajá and the Balsa could come together in a wonderful way. The place, with our three brains, three hearts and our six hands, became even more beautiful and we managed to both adapt and enlarge the upper part of the restaurant with a unique and original style, creating a splendid green terrace.
Today, the fusion continues to bear incredible fruit with the new healthy and conscious menu of the “La Belle Verte” cafeteria.
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