An article in yesterday's Puget Sound Business Journal quotes Zócalo owners Joe Bisacca and Greg Smith: they hope to open by May 5. The 7500-square-foot restaurant is scheduled to be a music venue for Upstream Fest on May 11, so my fingers are crossed that they'll hit this date. Previous missed dates include "late March or early April" (Seattle Times) and "the first week of April" (deleted Monster.com bartender job posting).As I mentioned in my February 14 post, the PSBJ article says the restaurant wants to avoid Tex-Mex and create "something different and better than just rice, beans, and tacos."
Chef Jeffrey Hunter says he'll start with Mexican cuisine, but looks forward to adding "cool things going on in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru."
On the way into the office today, I was chatting with a co-worker that I feared Zócalo would have the same lack of focus as its sister property, Cherry Street Public House (waffles, quiche, Persian stew, and BLT?). The chef's inspiration here -- Mexico, plus most of the South American continent -- doesn't assuage me.
"Opening soon: Elysian CEO and developer Greg Smith team up for Zócalo restaurant (Photos)" (subscription required, or the ability to parse the hidden parts of the article out of the HTML)
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