One of the city’s most beautiful areas in 629 E. Central Blvd., Orlando, is the Legacy Corner, which has long been considered “ambitious” for the good salt restaurant group Jason Chin.
Back in early Aughts, Chin worked at Seito’s celebrations and sushi bars at the winter park location. Hue was a resident restaurant at the time.
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“It felt lively and very new, like it was guiding us through a new era of Orlando’s dining,” Chin recalls. “It felt very “big city.” Everyone was very stylish. The energy in the dining room was electricity. ”
A few years later, during Soco’s success, a decade of running in space, Chin says the space continued to provide inspiration as his journey into the restaurant business had already begun.
Now he thinks about it and says he gives him goosebumps as he and his wife and partners are leading a new era of eating into the space.
Osteria Ester, who is at the helm of chef/partner Michael Cooper, brings the Italian-American vibe of Cooper’s New Jersey childhood red sauce, welcomes all gluten and Orlando, primarily to shelter from neighbors, with a gorgeous newcomer June.
The restaurant is scheduled to open in mid-November.
“The focus will be on homemade pasta and bread,” said Cooper, a childhood in Tom’s River, New Jersey, a parade of classic culinary cuisine from a classic location. “There are a lot of classic pizzeria classics, but no pizza,” he says. “Bolognese, Matriciana, two beautiful lasagna.”
Bread baked in an Osteria stone furnace oven – “Focaccia, Gnocco Frito, Crostini and Semolina Bread” stars along with the culinary Ala Vodka and Palmigiana. Buzzwords are family and familiar.
“Food can be very homely everywhere,” Chin says. He believes the concept hits chords with the food masses looking for comfort.
“It feels like there was this wave of exciting avant-garde style dishes hitting Orlando. I think we need a familiar place to have a moment.”
Orlando developer Craig Ustler holds a long-term lease in real estate, supporting a long-standing partnership with Good Salt Restaurant Group, with Monroe, a Bookend Vision in Downtown, North Square, and Creative Village, the SoCo’s success.
“It was great, but it was a time for something new,” Ustler said. “Chin-Austler’s partnership shares the same goal. Great restaurants, great spaces, great locations are all for the benefit of our teams, our guests and our city.”
Within the 4,000-square-foot space, facelifts are underway, and salt creative director Suchin says that the charm of the old world and modern playfulness of the game.
“The warm wood tones, rustic textures and amber lighting make for a cozy, intimate dinner venue.
The vintage-inspired prints, playful nods to Italian culture and bold graphic touches say it creates something sophisticated and lively.
“But it’s never too serious,” she says.
Unlike Fare Cooper, who continues his role as Osprey chef/partner at Baldwin Park, he is trying to bring it to his neighborhood.
Named after his grandmother, the space brings Esther’s love for food and full circles of family, but removes her recipes from the mix.
“This family story doesn’t go as you would expect,” he laughs. “No one in my family can cook.”
Except for your grandmother?
“Especially my grandmother!” says Luma’s former chef, who was one of Chins’ favorites when Cooper’s pasta dishes came to dinner.
“But she was a family glue. Relatives across the country would come to New Jersey just to spend time with her. She was a very special woman,” he says.
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Esther’s memories are a warm furnace where guests can gather, combined with beach heights, pizza joints on the promenade, and comfortable favorite memories such as calzones and onion and pepper sausages, Osteria Esther’s architects say it includes a patio, a space carrying a history of happiness. I saw it. ”
So the branch should unfold within a month of the opening of Osteria Ester, as Chin and Cooper say.
“It’s time for the next great restaurant in this space,” Ustler said. “We believe that we continue to carry on the heritage of this place and continue to revitalize this iconic corner.”
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