Renne

Renne’s story began during the pandemic, when Carlos Renne Cure Lemaitre and Marcela Pulido Muñoz decided to start a small gourmet empanada project. The idea was simple: to create something different, full of personality and with a quality that would set it apart.

For several weeks, their home became a recipe laboratory. Through successes, mistakes and many tastings, they realised they needed someone who could guide the idea to the next level. That was when they called chef Miguel Ángel Castillo Basto, whom a mutual friend had introduced to them some time before.

Miguel agreed to join them and began developing recipes, sauces and preparations for the project. Without knowing it, none of the three was working on an empanada business. They were taking the first step towards something much larger.

As the days went by, Carlos and Marcela placed the project in God’s hands and asked Him not simply to clear the way for the business they imagined, but to show them the purpose He had for them.

The answer came unexpectedly. Carlos, who had said for years that he would never own a restaurant, began to feel that this was precisely the path he was meant to follow. He proposed that Miguel leave the empanada idea behind and that they build a Peruvian restaurant together.

Miguel answered honestly. During the years he had lived in Colombia, his wife Carolina had never agreed to him entering into a business partnership. It seemed like a definitive answer.

If this project truly is what God has prepared for us, Carolina will say yes.

A short time later, Miguel called again. He had spoken with Carolina and, for the first time, her answer was different: she had said yes.

That was when the three of them understood that the empanadas had never been the destination. They had been the path God used to bring the right people together and give rise to Renne Peruvian Bistro.