La Bella Managua

Specialties

La Bella Managua is a Typical Nicaraguan Restaurant specialize in the «criolla» Nicaraguan cuisine and tradicional drinks. Nicaraguan cuisine draws on almost every aspect of Latin American cooking styles, but it puts a unique twist on certain flavors.

History

Established in 2005.

In 2003, Jesus Morales was working in the kitchen at the University of Toronto’s Hart House. For 15 years, he had worked at a variety of restaurants and food shops in Toronto, from Italian chain bistros to the fishmongers at St. Lawrence Market. His sister had recently visited him from their native Nicaragua, and commented how the city lacked a single restaurant featuring the cooking of their birthplace.

«That’s what I’m going to do next open a Nicaraguan restaurant,» he told a co-​worker in the kitchen at U of T, who told him it would never fly in Toronto. «If no one comes,» he said, «at least I’ll get to eat the food I love.»

Opening a new restaurant in this city is a gamble, but being the first to introduce an unknown cuisine is doubly difficult. The path to reproducing established restaurant archetypes like Italian, Chinese, Thai and French is well worn. But when Morales open it his dream spot. La bella Managua in 2005 Nicaraguan food in was anknown but now its a daly meal for many

Meet the Business Owner

Jesus Morales M.

Business Owner

Born in nicaragua, in small town call El Trancito, at the age of 24 Immigrat to canada, arived to montreal in 1988 worked at pizza shop and a bistro, moved to toronto in 1990 and start working at the spagetti factory and from there in many other restaurant, now leave in toronto running his own Bella managua restaurant named after the Capital of Nicaragua.