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La Ingrata - Business Of The Year

La Ingrata Camden has always honored public service workers, teachers, and military personnel by offering them a standing discount as a token of appreciation. Through their dedication to excellence, hospitality, and community engagement, Ernesto and Karla continue to make a lasting impact, strengthening Camden and celebrating their heritage one meal at a time.

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Camden Community Partnership’s Small Business

La Ingrata Camden offers a glimpse into how they and their restaurant recently were named the Camden Community Partnership’s (CCP) Small Business of the Year. The award is given annually to a small business that “has not only excelled in its industry but has also demonstrated a remarkable true commitment to support the Camden community and its residents,” according to the CCP.

The Inquirer | Food

South Philly gets most of the attention when it comes to great Mexican food, but Federal Street in East Camden, where chef Ernesto Ventura grew up, is a thriving corridor, too. That’s where he and his wife, chef Karla Torres, opened their cheerful black- and pink-trimmed BYOB in a former pizzeria just minutes from the Ben Franklin Bridge. The cooking from this couple, both alums of Schulson kitchens, focuses on flavor-memories from Torres’ upbringing in Mexico City

Day of the Dead Celebrated in Camden

La Ingrata Camden hosted their inaugural El Día de los Muertos – or Day of the Dead – celebration.

Offers family recipes from Puebla and Mexico City

Carla Torres and Ernesto Ventura’s restaurant mirrors their childhood in Mexico.

New Mexican spot La Ingrata for Cinco de Mayo

At La Ingrata, old Mexican movies play on the TV. The walls are lined with pictures of Mexican movie stars and, in the kitchen, husband and wife owners Carla Torres and Ernesto Ventura are making their favorite dishes. Everything is from family recipes passed down through the generations.

The next generation pushes culinary boundaries

Nostalgia for Mexico City fuels an exciting debut in Camden.

Camden Chef Keeps Family Traditions Close at Hand

Karla Torres grew up among some of the prominent names in lucha libre, the colorful cultural sport of Mexican wrestling, in which her father, uncles, and cousins all had careers. It’s woven into the fabric of her Camden City restaurant, La Ingrata, which celebrates its third anniversary this month.

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La Ingrata Puts Unique Family-Inspired Twist on Mexican Food. The co-owner of La Ingrata – a Mexican Restaurant in Camden – named the business after a song by Café Tacvba. To Karla Torres, the song has deeper meaning beyond the words, and is tied to fond memories with her mother. So when it came time to name their restaurant, Karla and her husband Ernesto Ventura knew just what to do.

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New N.J. restaurant review: Taste Mexico City at this delicious family spot. At La Ingrata in Camden, a Mexican restaurant spotlighting the rich cuisine of the landlocked Puebla region, black and white photographs of Mexican Western film stars adorn the walls. The images return diners to a time of duels on a dirt main street, with onlookers behind swinging saloon doors, and the sheriff storming in on his horse, swinging a lasso.

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