Maradentro.
Roughly translates into “your Ventura Boulevard patio for oysters with mezcal mignonette.”
Or something.
Yes, Maradentro, a breezy new perch for Mexican seafood with cold tequila chasers, opens tomorrow in Studio City from Mercado and Yxta’s owners. (See the slideshow.)
You’re entering a Craftsman-home-shaped restaurant. Two rooms full up on wooden planks, deep-blue chairs and oceanic art of the atypically attractive variety. It’ll all make you feel like the captain of a yacht washed ashore only to survive on a diet of bivalves and tequila. Not a bad one. (Here’s the menu.)
You could set up in front with drinking friends to share some oysters, lobster-and-bacon guacamole and crab-chorizo queso. There’ll be some happy hour energy in that little pocket between the bar and the high counter behind it. A margarita that’s colored like the ocean or a shishito-pisco cocktail would not be inappropriate right now.
But you’ll probably want to do filet mignon and lobster tacos and other dinnery-date things on the sidewalk patio, or inside, in the back, if there’s rain.
That wet stuff that allegedly falls from the sky sometimes.
Roughly translates into “your Ventura Boulevard patio for oysters with mezcal mignonette.”
Or something.
Yes, Maradentro, a breezy new perch for Mexican seafood with cold tequila chasers, opens tomorrow in Studio City from Mercado and Yxta’s owners. (See the slideshow.)
You’re entering a Craftsman-home-shaped restaurant. Two rooms full up on wooden planks, deep-blue chairs and oceanic art of the atypically attractive variety. It’ll all make you feel like the captain of a yacht washed ashore only to survive on a diet of bivalves and tequila. Not a bad one. (Here’s the menu.)
You could set up in front with drinking friends to share some oysters, lobster-and-bacon guacamole and crab-chorizo queso. There’ll be some happy hour energy in that little pocket between the bar and the high counter behind it. A margarita that’s colored like the ocean or a shishito-pisco cocktail would not be inappropriate right now.
But you’ll probably want to do filet mignon and lobster tacos and other dinnery-date things on the sidewalk patio, or inside, in the back, if there’s rain.
That wet stuff that allegedly falls from the sky sometimes.
