SAVVIA
A Place for Gathering in Mexico City
Designed by Worc Studio Ricardo Martínez & Camila Ureña
July 14, 2026
Dear reader,
I write to you as the eldest of three, part of a family of five who decided to embark on the adventure of opening a restaurant. And I also write to you as someone who, just like you, sits at a table expecting to be welcomed, cared for, and surprised.
For us, SAVVIA is not just a project: it is a mirror of who we are and what we have shared throughout the years.
Each of us has found a place here. Kiara, the youngest sister, transforms memory into flavors from the kitchen. Jess, the middle one, sustains the restaurant’s daily life with her sensitivity and rigor as manager. I, the eldest, oversee the creative direction, seeking the space and atmosphere to tell the same story as the food. And behind it all, our parents, Vero and Juan, are the roots that hold us, the silent and constant support that makes this dream possible.
But there are more threads in this weave. The recipes and gestures inherited from our mother, they taught us that cooking is a way of caring, and that the act of sharing food carries a memory that transcends generations. SAVVIA is also a tribute to that heritage, which remains alive in us.
Conceiving this restaurant has pushed us to look back: to return to childhood, to the family table, to the everyday gestures that shaped us without even noticing. In that exercise of memory, we discovered that opening a restaurant is also a way of bringing ourselves back together as a family.
The space responds to that pursuit. Designed by close friends whom I invited to join this process, Worc Studio Ricardo Martínez & Camila Ureña conceived SAVVIA as a refuge: a warm interior where raw tones contrast with dark wood and stone. A key decision was to free the ground floor for diners and raise the kitchen, allowing the experience of hosting and sharing to occupy the center.
From this idea came the communal table—not as a simple piece of furniture, but as a sculptural gesture that defines the heart of the restaurant. Around it, light, stone and wood reinforce a quiet atmosphere where every element contributes to the experience of gathering around a shared meal.
Kiara’s cuisine moves between the contemporary and the ancestral. It does not seek to invent the new but to reveal what was always there: local ingredients, native seeds, flavors that withstand time. Each preparation is a narrative of what we have received and what we wish to pass on.
For me, SAVVIA is a proof that returning to the table is returning to home. It is a reminder that sharing remains one the most honest and human ways of living together.
