January 14, 2006
Orinoco
Just a pretty picture I took yesterday through the window of Orinoco, a sweet little restaurant that has opened next to my nutritionist. As you can see, it looks like it's closed for lunch, which is just as well, given the purpose of my visits next door.
Fom the Boston Globe's food critics Joe Yonan and Alison Arnett:
"MI AMOR Andres Branger's new little South End restaurant is a labor of love. He even sold his neighborhood condo and is crashing on the couch of a business partner to swing the $300,000 start-up cost. With barely 20 seats on Shawmut Avenue, Orinoco will open soon, focusing on family recipes from Branger's native Venezuela (arepas and empanadas) with a nod to other Latin cuisines. Branger had hired fellow Venezuelan Carlos Walter, from Douglas Rodriguez's OLA Miami, as a menu consultant. Walter then "fell in love with the concept," Branger says, and moved to Boston to run the kitchen. Branger feared he would have to open without a liquor license, but the city came through at the 11th hour. Since he didn't have to buy it from another license holder, Branger saved hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Photo note: This is a metamorphophoto without metaphoric meaning. After all, it's Saturday and there are many reasons to keep it light and gay. On second thought, maybe there is a metaphor, but you'll have to rack your own brain for it.
Posted by Dakota at January 14, 2006 08:29 AM