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- I wanted to bake food from my culture,
and so I wanted to share that with people.
I’m Mayra Sibrian and I run Pan de La Selva.
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By using local ingredients,
it ties us to the ancestral way of using what the land has to offer.
So Pan de La Selva, because “pan”, you know, being pan dulce,
and “selva”, meaning jungle because of my family being where
they're from, Mexico and Central America, that is the landscape there.
Selva.
I like to be very playful and appealing with the presentation
and the flavors and the colors just to, you know, feed the creative soul.
I feel. (Laughs)
So right now, it’s just Sam and I.
And so we start as early as like 3:30 in the morning or four, and we basically
just hit the ground running because I want to bake everything fresh.
After that, we package things up
and then I come over here at the store front,
and then I have Dia here who helps me unload
and then ends at the end like a 12 hour day for me.
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My work ethic I get from my dad and like my drive
and a lot of who I am, is because of my parents.
Have you have that one?
When I started culinary school,
my dad was telling me, I want you to have your own, like, restaurant.
And because I was young and kind of rebellious, like.
And so it's like, no, dad, but joke's on me,
because here I am opening up a store.
And my dad is very happy. (Laughs)
(In Spanish) Somos
- Gracisas!
- Seattle Restored is a program that takes empty spaces mainly
in like Downtown and Pioneer Square, and they fill it with entrepreneurs and so
you get the lease and then you get two weeks to move in.
So the process has just been like waiting and then go, go go go go.
Okay. Then wait to make sure things get approved.
Okay then go go go go go.
And then now we're open. So.... (Laughs)
Okay, here you go.
It's like, dang, that really all happened in two weeks!
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