downstairs bar and kitchen
The aggregation abaft the shuttered Warehouse District blessed hour admired La Casita will accessible a new tequila bar and Mexican restaurant in the adjacency in fall.
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El Patio Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Garden will accessible at 845 Carondelet St. by "late 2017," according to La Casita buyer John Michael Wade. The two-floor restaurant already was the basin lounge Indulge Island Grill and best afresh functioned as an accident amplitude for Marcello's Restaurant & Wine Bar.
Wade says affairs for the amplitude accommodate a bench calm restaurant alms "elevated Mexican fare" by chef Justin Bruhl, and a ample alfresco patio with an abbreviated card of added accidental baby plates. The bar will banal a ample alternative of tequila and mezcal.
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"This is article that I've capital to do back La Casita (first) opened," Wade said.
Bruhl comes from restaurant stints at celebrity chef Mario Batali's restaurants as able-bodied as Compere Lapin and Maypop. He additionally runs the pop-up Matchbook Kitchen at Lower Garden District whiskey abode Barrel Proof.
["485"]Wade says the admiral amplitude acceptable will be acclimated for clandestine events.
The alfresco tequila garden will accept murals of Mexican haciendas by artists with New Orleans Paint Design.
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No changes are accepted at the Riverbend La Casita Taqueria (8400 Oak St., 504-826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com), which opened in aboriginal 2016.
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