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Rostizado & Tres Carnales, alloyed and revamped! Rostizado reemerges with a new design, new chef, and new menu WORDS BY JOE GURBA PHOTOGRAPHY BY TATYANA SEMENOVA
Restaurants around the city are
Working with local design team Land
innovating to embrace this new normal of
Faculty, they’ve infused their Rostizado
take-out, safe seating arrangements, and
space with a mid-century, old town Puerto
adjusting budgets. Rostizado is a prime
Vallarta vibe that amounts to instant
example. With Tres Carnales, their older
transport. Their team has moved away from
brother restaurant famous for Mexican
minimalism to a bold and refreshing palette
street fare becoming a take-out hot spot
that would make Diego Rivera smile. The
and limited by a smaller dining room, the
atmosphere is prosaic, fit for Cuban boater
expansive space at Rostizado revealed an
hats and hand-rolled cigars...you could only
opportunity for reinvention.
imagine the aroma as it is mingled with their finest mezcals, if such things were allowed.
Owners Chris Sills and Danny Braun had
This new decor expresses the marriage of
launched Tres Carnales just off Jasper
Danny & Chris’s Edmonton-famous concepts
in 2011 to enormous success. In 2014
perfectly—more richly appointed than a
they premiered Rostizado, a fine dining
street side taqueria yet more relaxed and
establishment with a pan-Latinx cuisine
uplifting than a formal dining room.
that drew inspiration beyond Mexico. Rostizado had featured a more austere
You melt into this place, hours drift by,
dining room of muted smokey tones that
you’re relaxed in a way this pandemic has
lent a dark mystique to the raw space
made almost impossible. That’s helped
of the retrofitted Mercer Warehouse on
along by the Covid cautious seating design.
104th & 104th. But with change in the air,
The handsome transparent boundaries
Danny and Chris saw an opportunity to
between seats lets the energy of a bustling
reinvent and marry their two concepts
restaurant fill you with joy instead of worry.
with an ambitious renovation.
Remember those days! ▶
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