Chris Feldmeier and Ricardo Zarate are sharing kitchen space to bring two distinct new projects to life.
In 2016, Osteria Mozza alums Feldmeier and Rosoff debuted Moruno at the Original Farmers Market and also opened Bar Moruno at Grand Central Market. Both spots closed in less than a year. Feldmeier remembers he and Rosoff having disagreements with their former partners. Plus, the locations were suboptimal, with customers complaining about parking and traffic. It just didn’t work.
“Yesterday, our bar was full at 5:30,” he says. “We opened at 5:00. At 5:15, we had two barstools left.”Feldmeier wants Bar Moruno to be a choose-your-own adventure experience. You’re welcome to come for appetizers, wine from the Iberian Peninsula or a progression of gin cocktails that pull from the restaurant’s collection of more than 40 gins.
Bar Moruno shares a prep kitchen with Causita and Rapido. That kitchen is also what Zarate will use for dinner service, but it has a wood-burning rotisserie and grill that’s reserved for Bar Moruno. And there’s also a wood-burning oven inside Bar Moruno itself.Operating three spots on the same block and having a shared kitchen is tricky, Feldmeier says.
Zarate says he’s been energized by neighbors strolling by and asking when he’s opening Causita. Zarate, the pioneering Peruvian chef behind LA sensations that have included Mo-Chica and Picca along withwants to reinvent himself at Causita. Instead of serving classic Peruvian dishes like lomo saltado, he’s leaning hard into Nikkei cuisine, which merges Peruvian and Japanese cooking.
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