Hola! I’m Erin and I am so glad you are here! Casa Misterio is the home I share with my husband Manny and our two young children. It is also a guest house and my art studio and gallery. Manny and I lived 3000 miles apart for four years while we built Casa Misterio from a colonial fixer-upper into the art-filled urban oasis it is today, one cinder block at a time on two food service salaries. Building Casa Misterio required so much sacrifice that now that we are in it, together, the house is a symbol of how far we have come and how hard we worked to get here. The house makes out life here possible; the house is everything.

 

Manny and I met and fell in love while working together in a restaurant kitchen in Oakland, California. Here in Manny’s hometown of Merida, we live in a way that is distinctly bi-cultural, raising our kids to be bilingual and honoring the way I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, while also embracing the way locals do things. Manny’s family has welcomed me and taught me how to be “casi-Yucateca,” and I share my culture and language with all of them. This confluence of cultures and past experiences extends to our relaxed hosting style, how we choose to share what we love about Merida and the former chef ethos we still carry with us. 

 

We feel so lucky to have this home to share with you, in this incredible city, with its vast food and art culture that speaks to our passion. Many of the guests we have hosted have become our friends

(some even our neighbors).

This is a life we couldn’t have imagined for ourselves, but one that also somehow seems inevitable.

We love what we do here at Casa Misterio, and we love that it is our life.

Come stay, visit me in my studio or convince me to take you to the mercado.

We think you will love it too!