Picado Mexican

Picado Mexican is run by husband and wife team,Lily Ramirez-Foran & Alan Foran. Alan is Irish and Lily is Mexican and they met in Japan during their first year in college. It was love at first sight.  Lily is the founder of Ireland’s first Mexican boutique grocer and cookery school, Picado Mexican; she’s also the author behind the popular food blog ‘A Mexican Cook’. Lily has been living and cooking in Ireland for almost 19 years . When not busy with work, Lily can be found in her kitchen experimenting with recipes or in her tiny urban garden learning to grow some food. Shop keeper, food writer, story teller, mad dreamer and lover of all things Irish. She is a chef member of Euro-Toques Ireland, and passionately believes in the Slow Food ethos of good, clean and fair food. She comes from a long line of Tortilla bakers by trade, so she knows her tortillas really, really well.