Javier Angeles-Beron was in South Beach when I reached him by phone yesterday evening, and he wasn't trying to shout over some thumping DJ while dodging bronzed models at an oversexed, smoked-filled nightclub. He was prepping for the opening of a new Latin-Asian restaurant in the Z Ocean Hotel, where he had just been named executive chef. [...]
The rumor came in late yesterday and general manager Tomaso Beggiato just now confirmed it: Sesto Senso, the Dupont Circle outlet for Italian cuisine and Eurotrash nightclubbing, is calling it quits. Beggiato said Sesto Senso (which means "sixth sense" in Italian) will close on Saturday but will reopen at a later date with a different concept. Plans and [...]
With its Spinal Tap-like logo, Sushi Rock will share one other trait with the 1984 rockumentary: faux rawk-star glamor. The new concept from the folks behind Public Bar will mix Japanese cuisine with American rock 'n' roll in an environment that Tony Hudgins, a managing partner for Public Group, says will make diners feel like [...]
Maybe I should have seen this coming earlier. The signs were right in front of me. Mauricio Fraga-Rosenfeld, the founder and owner of Latin Concepts, and his wife, Nesrin, who actually runs the company, had already pulled the plug on Ceviche in Glover Park and sold their experiment in Peruvian-chifa cuisine in Arlington. But yesterday, [...]
It hasn't even been a week since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, but I bet you've already been hit up 500 times for a donation to help the victims. You can barely turn to a Web site, a restaurant, a party, or a social network without finding some solicitation asking for more cash for [...]
Yaku to swim with the (raw) fishes We interrupt Y&H's Home Cooking Day to pass along this news: Yaku, the Latin Concept restaurant dedicated to chifa cuisine and other Peruvian specialties, will close in January and reopen as a rock 'n' roll/sushi establishment. Mauricio Fraga-Rosenfeld, founder of the Latin Concepts group of fashionable restaurant/lounges, tells [...]
