Despite being almost 10,000 miles apart, Mexico and India have surprising similarities when it comes to food. The chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval discovered exactly that one night in Mexico City, when they created a menu for a friend’s dinner party. The result is what may be the capital’s most inventive new restaurant, Masala y Maiz , in the residential neighborhood of San Miguel Chapultepec.
The project was never supposed to happen. After years working in some of the Bay Area’s top restaurants, Ms. Listman, a Mexico native, moved back to Mexico City . . .
