Fermin Teco

Alma Negra is the third restaurant from Fermín Teco, who arrived in New York from Puebla, Mexico in the year 2000 and began cooking at the kind of restaurants that teach you how to be a chef. He worked as a cook at Carmine’s in midtown Manhattan. From there, he worked for Máximo Tejada at Rayuela, and in 2015, opened Amaranto in Bushwick. There, like at Alma Negra, he began cooking the kind of Mexican food that incorporates food from Mayan traditions.