Plus a hemp restaurant heads downtown, a Cuban cocktail bar launches, and more.
opens this week with 13 vendors, including a craft beer and local wine bar. The food hall within a former Masonic lodge will be home to chef Yonette Alleyne’s Caribbean Gourmet; Burnt Belly barbecue, from former Gus’s BBQ executive chef Kyu Yi; and mariscos operation La Olla, from husband-and-wife team Antonio Aguilar and Joei Miu, among other stalls. The second floor will be used for events and rental space for meetings, plus serve as an exhibition space for local artists.
Bolita takes its inspiration from 1950s Cuba, which riffs off its sibling concepts’ themes, and which co-owner Daniel Navarro says pays homage to his family, specifically to a great-grandfather who operated restaurants and bars in Cuba. In addition to cocktails, beer, wine and nonalcoholic beverages, Bolita will offer off-menu daily pies inspired by the bar’s drinks and baked by the pastry chef at Café Tropical.