Denver chef and owner of Mexican food trendsetter La Diabla Jose Avila is bringing traditional insect-based meals to the city.
will now take place from Wednesday, March 15 to Sunday, March 19, and guests can try a $66.60 sampler platter of roasted crickets, Chicatana ants, escamoles (edible ant or fly larvae known as Mexican caviar), scorpions, small stink bugs and red maguey worms. Avila will also incorporate the insects into a special menu with tacos with buttered escamoles, salsa verde, and serrano peppers; maguey worm tostadas with huitlacoche and avocado; and scorpion tamales with pineapple and chocolate.
Avila, who hails from Mexico, said that though the menu item may make some squeamish that these delicacies are eaten regularly throughout the central region of his native country.
