Downtown Disney Sippin' on Uva, Re-Open by Patina on June 7
The menu at this Spanish-style bar already sounds better than Disney's creepy $25,000 members-only supper club.
The menu at this Spanish-style bar already sounds better than Disney's creepy $25,000 members-only supper club.
Plus: 'Edible' magazine's Good Spirits event, voting on the fate of Brooklyn's Whole Foods, and more neighborhood news.
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,...
Plus: Uva may need to change its name.
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...
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