Slow down with fast food.
Take your time and soak in a scenery unique to the world itself. Be part of the team: eat Plantantje Pinda.
The Hippie Highway is a table.
Every season, thousands of travellers walk the Hippie Highway in San Marcos La Laguna looking for something quick, healthy and real. Most of it gets eaten standing up.
We built a stand that asks you to slow down instead: one leaf, one sauce, and one ten-second moment that someone else gets to watch later.
Everything inside five kilometres.
The peanut sauce is made from ingredients grown or made within five kilometres of the stand. Plantain is a staple of the Guatemalan kitchen, and peanut is old company for it. When the sauce comes from your neighbours, a plate has a street address.
- Plantain, fried in coconut oilStarchy, savoury, no sugar.
- Peanut sauce from San MarcosEvery ingredient within a five-kilometre circle of the stand.
- A banana leaf for a plateNothing to wash, nothing to carry.
A leaf is a plate.
Your fries arrive on a fresh banana leaf, the way food has been served in warm places for a very long time. It makes the meal feel like a picnic, and picnics are meant to be shared.
- Eat from it.Slowly. The camera is on you for ten seconds anyway.
- Look at the view.The lake and three volcanoes are part of the plate.
- Share it with whoever is next to you.Then tag them on @plantantjePinda.
San Marcos, slowly.
San Marcos La Laguna sits on the shore of Lake Atitlán under three volcanoes, a village known for yoga, ceremony and long conversations. The stand lives on the village’s terms: local ingredients, local neighbours, no rush.
