Casa Mezcal: Oaxaca is in the House
JUNE 4, 2010
Casa Mezcal hosts a house full of culture, food and fun in the LES.
The hard-to-define can often be the most satisfying, and new Lower East Side restaurant/bar/community arts center Casa Mezcal fits the description.
The ground floor bar of the south-of-the-border mansion transplant at 86 Orchard Street is stocked with bottles of rare Mezcal from the owner’s private distillery in Oaxaca. On subsequet floors you’ll find a gallery space—opulent and religious-icon-kitsch-filled rather than raw and industrial—and a performance room featuring a music stage and cinema screen. Every floor offers a bar, eliminating the inconvenience of having to leave the show for a refill.
The soon-to-be-open comida will serve Oaxacan favorites from homemade tacos and burritos to the more exotic (fried grasshoppers and melted cheese, according to Urban Daddy, are a local specialty); owner Ignacio “Nacho” Carballido owns two additional downtown taquerias. The multi-tiered manse promises to be an interesting alternative to the dozens of tiny, brick-walled candle bars that line the neighborhood’s narrow streets, and pre-opening buzz has already been building in the form of celebrity visits and fashion shoots on the premises.
Casa Mezcal
86 Orchard Street (at Broome)
New York, NY 10002
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