Hopes Europe’s first tortilla plant will be sizzling success

We’ve taken one great food staple — the spud — from Central and South America and made it our own. And now we’re set to do likewise with the tortilla: an equity investment programme launches tonight to fund the very first real corn tortilla manufacturing plant in Europe.

Blanco Nino is the brainchild of restaurateur Philip Martin, owner of Dublin-based Little Ass burrito bar. He aims to capitalise on huge European demand for authentic Mexican cuisine, with enormous interest already expressed by major players in the Irish and British food service industry.

Martin has established links with farmers in Dublin and Wexford that will eventually see more than 600 acres dedicated to growing and supplying Blanco Nino with high-quality non-GMO corn maize and the Fingal Enterprise Board-backed production facility will create up to 30 jobs.