It was established by a Colombian family with the great purpose of showcasing Latin American food, especially Colombian cuisine.
The first family project began in 2007 in White Plains NY, called El Cafetero Bakery, then a few years later in 2013 opened the first restaurant called Makondo Restaurant ® in the city of Portchester NY, in 2016 opened the second Makondo Restaurant ® in the city of White Plains NY, in 2018 opened the third Makondo Restaurant ® in the city of Norwalk CT. in 2020 opened the fourth Makondo Restaurant ® in the city of Ossining NY, in 2021 the fifth Makondo Restaurant ® in the city of Hempstead NY.
Makondo is a chain of restaurants, dedicated to offer a wide variety of bakery products and Colombian cuisine, which is why we have a lot of varied dishes of all that Latin American cuisine with emphasis on the Colombian.
The name Macondo or Makondo comes from a fictitious town described in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Nobel Prize winning writer Gabriel García Márquez (qepd).