The team behind Vera check out their neighbor Next.
Vera launches cooking classes with Catalonia.
Vera isn't going to be one of this year's glitzy openings. Like the Spanish food and the wines that this Lake Street wine bar plans to offer, it's straightforward, well-balanced and easy to feel comfortable with. But if there's nothing...
After a brief legal skirmish with a wine bar in New York which asserted its ownership of the Spanish word for "grape," the wine bar which Mark and Liz Mendez planned to call Uva has a new name. It's Vera,...
Yesterday, we talked with Mark and Liz Mendez about their wine bar, Uva, set to open in early fall in the long-ago Rushmore space on Lake Street. In that segment we focused on the Spanish food that will be on...
As executive chef at Carnivale, Mark Mendez was like the indie filmmaker who suddenly gets the assignment to direct a big summer blockbuster. He used his position to be a supporter of local farms, and filled his specials menu with...