Healthy pancakes, waffles, and French toast? The brunch that breaks the mold

Solange Martínez-Gonzales is convinced that life is too short to count calories. Since she began her path in healthy food, she has created ‘healthy’ recipes, made with good, natural and nutritious ingredients; but she has never focused on restraint. A few months ago, she returned to offer her creations in a physical space, after completely closing the chapter of Armónica Café, a place that she founded almost a decade ago.

“Coming back is a mixture of emotions. I have always thought that this is my path. Attending to people, having the experience with the client”, adds the businesswoman about her return to face-to-face care. The healthy lifestyle blogger affirms that she never felt that she left, as she continued with her ‘dark kitchen’ and with her healthy pastry workshops, however, she affirms that “Seeing the faces of the people who have always been there again is the best thing on the planet.”

“I would not change it for anything. The fact of having customers next to me and being able to talk with them and see them face to face seems to me to be the best experience of life. And to be able to transmit what I share… one thing is to do it online, which also works, but another thing is to see them face to face, so it was definitely a mixture of feelings”, he complements.

Solange affirms that at the beginning, like any new challenge, she was afraid. She thought that the people who met her at her previous restaurant would not accept her new proposal. But the same day that the ‘brunch’ began at Jerónimo, she realized that they not only remembered her but also missed her healthy desserts and her vegan breakfasts that no other restaurant has been able to match.

“Fear is always there before starting something, but I always believe in myself. Since I started to believe in myself I feel that everything is going well, from the Little Harmonica”, indicates the specialist in healthy cooking. “I know that what I am sharing is something good for others“, Add.

new stage

The kitchen of the Jerónimo restaurant opened its doors to Solange, and for a few months they have been offering a healthy and delicious brunch from Friday to Sunday from 8 am to 12 pm. They have several proposals between salty and sweet. We can find pancakes, waffles, croissant with pistachios as well as benedictine veggies and capresse tostones. Their menu is constantly on the move, so this season you will also find Doña Pepa chocolate and nougat in the Solange style.

“My boyfriend owns Jerónimo and I basically always cooked breakfast and brunch for him. and he loved it”, he reveals about how the idea of ​​offering brunch at this restaurant on Avenida La Mar was born. “Jerónimo is a very well-known restaurant here and it did not open in the mornings. So we thought it would be perfect to have breakfasts and brunches that do not interfere with their usual schedule and with the proposal that Jerónimo”Add.

Moma Adrianzén (owner and founder of Jerónimo) has definitely been a great ally in this new challenge for Solange. “We did several tests here breakfasts with him. When there was a presentation we put the brunch proposal here. And we saw that it was a good idea and very rich. So one day he told me: ‘hey, you know we start next week’. And it was like already, we do it. next week we start“, remember.

She remembers that a lot of people missed her vegan pancakes and wrote to her on Instagram that she made and sold them. Although she has several recipes on her social networks on how to prepare them, people wanted her to send them to them made. “Sometimes he did, especially in a pandemic. He prepared them and sent for delivery, but obviously sometimes he didn’t have the time or the supplies. So he has been nice he will share again what he always shared. It is something like my proposal for the Little Harmonica, like when I just started”, comment.

“Something I always want people to remember is that I never lose my essence. Wherever I go, I will always cook health in any way. With options without refined sugar, with options for celiacs and vegans, and I will always cook trying to do everything as healthy as possible. I think that has been my essence since I had little Armonica. And it will continue to do so wherever I go, not like that put a brunch in another restaurant, or for example right now in Chile, where we are making this proposal in Jerónimo Chile that implies my image, I will always have the same essence of what It was HarmonicaAdd.

The letter

“Health for me is a balance. I share health trying to have a balance. The letter has that. 80% are things that I make and 20% are options like chicharrón or crispy chicken that we just launched in Chile. In the end that is the balance. That’s what health is, it’s not just living healthy, without gluten, without sugar, but also giving ourselves these little treats, obviously without excessSolange adds.

“I have never followed a diet, I have never followed anything that makes me deprive myself of the rich things in life”, comment. For her, life is too short to be counting calories instead of nutrients and that is why what she offers on her brunch menu is made with flours such as quinoa, rice and yucca; and sweetened with coconut sugar, monk fruit or panela. “In the end we want to offer something as close to the traditional“, Explain.

“All sweet options are gluten-free and vegan. And all the savory options have sourdough bread. But if someone wants a salty gluten-free option, we offer it on the croissant”Add.

“I feel that God has given me a gift. Before cooking healthy, everything turned out terrible for me. But when I started cooking healthy it was different. I feel that if I had studied cooking everything would have been easier, but life gave me this as a test and to enjoy something that I love to do, which is cooking healthy, and that is good for my body, not only because of the nutrients but because it makes him happy. What happiness to be able to eat like this and that at the same time what it takes is the best you are giving it ”, indicates.

“The recipes have been years of practice. There are some that have taken me three years, like the delicacy. But as I always say: ‘practice makes perfect’. That’s something I sign it “concludes the communicator by profession.

If you take a walk around Jerónimo this weekend to try Solange’s brunch, these are our recommendations: pancakes, waffles, banana pancakes, French toast, hummus tostón, pistachio-stuffed croissant, nougat, any of vegan milkshakes and hot chocolate that has a vegan mashmello. All healthy and delicious. Bon Appetite!

Retail

• Address: Av. Mariscal La Mar 1209, Miraflores
• Brunch Hours: Friday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Reservation: not necessary, but recommended.
• Average ticket: 50 soles