Liz Grothe, the pop-up chef behind Couch Cafe, plans to open her brick-and-mortar Scampi in the Neighborhood Ramen space.
Liz Grothe, the chef behind the pop-up Couch Cafe, outside Neighborhood Ramen. She'll take over the space for her new restaurant, Scampi, to open August 2024apartment. But later this year, she’s planning to welcome them into her restaurant, Scampi, which will take over the current Neighborhood Ramen space in Queen Village.. “I immediately said, ‘I want that space,’” Grothe said.
Most recently, Grothe’s menus have reflected a tour of Italy she took in 2023, bringing guests along as she explores the food history of Tuscany, Florence, Rome, Sardinia, and Calabria. Her dinners are interlaced with a spiel that combines a history lesson with jokes, and musings on the challenges of making the food in her kitchen.
The new restaurant, called Scampi — an homage to the kind of Italian-American mash-ups Grothe loves — won’t be exactly like Couch Cafe. First of all, there won’t be a couch. But there will be a rose gold shrimp disco ball and a karaoke machine, if all goes to plan. Grothe plans to keep certain features of her supper club alive, too: There will be 24 seats. It’ll be a prix fixe menu, with two seatings per night Thursdays through Sundays.
“Scampi isn’t going to be a place where you can go order the same cutlet and the same pasta every time,” Grothe said. “I want to be free to use any ingredient I want to keep things fresh for both me and the diners. The menus I hope will make sense, but won’t be predictable.” Grothe wants to keep the spirit of Couch Cafe alive at Scampi, just with more room to work, and more professional equipment. “This is my new house,” she said. “Except I’ll have six industrial burners instead of four house burners, and I don’t have to worry about getting evicted.”
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