Chef de Cuisine Marissa Gerlach presents Pan-Latin Coastal Cuisine for your private dining experience. Enjoy a lavish menu in secluded luxury in Raya's Private Dining Room at the ocean front Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel. Every amenity of this unique elliptical gem-box-shaped room is carefully considered. Chef Gerlach prepares each dish with sustainable seafood, local produce, natural and organic meat and Chef Richard Sandoval’s signature Latin flavors. Chef Gerlach is passionate about the food she serves. Every product she uses has a history, a story. AquaFarm is a small local sustainable seafood farm in Southern California. Chef Gerlach visited the facility where she learned so much about how using locally grown seafood not only offers the guests a much tastier product, but it helps lessen our carbon footprint. It’s this type of experience that brings a story to the food she create for guests to enjoy during their private dining experience.
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RAYA, a restaurant concept by Richard Sandoval, showcases Pan-Latin Coastal Cuisine prepared with sustainable seafood, local produce, natural and organic meats, and Chef Sandoval’s signature Latin flavors. At the helm in RAYA is Chef Marissa Gerlach.
Chef Gerlach says, “Every product we use has a history, a story behind it. For instance, AquaFarm is a small local sustainable seafood farm in Southern California where I learned so much about how using locally grown seafood not only offers the guests a much tastier product, but it helps lessen our carbon footprint. Working with Chef Sandoval, I have become very fond of unique ingredients such as Togarashi, an Asian seven spice, Huitlacoche, a sweet fungus that grows on corn, and Pilonillo, which is unrefined Mexican cane sugar that is smoky, caramel-like, and earthy all in one. Each week, my goal is to pair an ingredient like one of these with a fresh, seasonal product to create a new and unique dish,” she added.
- Contact Michele Canatella at (949) 240-2000 x5084
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