Don’t you love the idea of being in large festive places on New Year’s Eve, with lots of people reveling, music that might make conversation challenging, a promotional prix fixe menu with a bottle of indifferent prosecco included, and being surrounded by inebriated strangers laying sloppy kisses on one another at midnight while a pandemic lurches into what will soon be its fourth year?

Creating extraordinary dining is a passion for many lifelong restaurateurs.

“Life is ours to be spent, not saved.”

Where is the newest place in town to have a delicious tapas meal? It is Doppio Café in Riberas del Pilar. Owners Grant and Karen have come a long way. This gem of a small business started as a tiny coffee truck on the Libramiento.

Fine dining satisfactions come in many creative and exotic presentations.

Perhaps taking the prize as the restaurateur, or anyone, arriving in Guadalajara by the most circuitous route, Paolo Cassanelli has braved the pandemic and the competitive business atmosphere here to open, with his business partner Max,