Ashland restaurant draws crowds with Indigenous recipes in a ‘space our hearts were longing for’

Published on: 08/14/2025

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This family portrait shows poet, educator and culture bearer Manya Orescan Campos, left, holding her son with mixologist Freddie Herrera, center, and chef Naz Orescan Campos, left, with her daughter at Tlalli restaurant in Ashland. Ahi tuna poke, avocado, cucumber, salsa macha, ají amarillo crema and spring onions are ingredients in a tostada. Freddie Herrera is an award-winning mixologist who uses ancestral ingredients to create modern cocktails with the spirit of his ancestors. Guacamole has avocado, key limes, mint, basil, cilantro and queso fresco. Tapado de Coco has mussels, clams, scallops, shrimp, sofrito rojo, Caribbean coconut milk broth, yucca and green plantains Pollo a la Brasa is toasted chicken, rocoto, maduro sweet plantains, ají amarillo, ají verde and red rice. Freddie Herrera is an award-winning mixologist who uses ancestral ingredients to create modern cocktails with the spirit of his ancestors. Tlalli's owners say the restaurant's cuisine honors Indigenous food practices that have survived thousands of years as well as celebrates the Afro-Caribbean contributions to Latin cuisine. Estefani Castro performed two original rap songs and sang two classic Mexican mariachi songs Aug. 3 in the garden patio of newly open Ashland restaurant. Tlalli. Tlalli restaurant in Ashland held a Flor y Canto (“flower and song”) open mic event offering a night of poetry and song for love and liberation on Aug. 3, 2025. Tlalli restaurant owners are chef Naz Orescan Campos, left, mixologist Freddie Herrera, and poet culture bearer Manya Orescan Campos.

Estefani Castro, the lead producer of “Quixote Nuevo“ at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in downtown Ashland, stood on an unfamiliar stage Aug. 3: The garden patio of newly opened Tlalli restaurant about a half mile away.

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