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Jazzy Pete’s clients dine Monday beneath the DTB awning in July. Jazzy Pete’s has closed, and Mucho Mas, a Mexican restaurant, is slated to take over the situation.
The constructing at 8201 Oak St — beforehand house to restaurant DTB and, most just lately, Jazzy Pete’s — will quickly be Mexican restaurant Mucho Más, from chef Julio Machado.
Chef Machado, who owns Tacos Del Cartel on David Drive in Metairie, guarantees an growth of the menu that Tacos Del Cartel followers have grown to like. He can be operating the restaurant with Danny Cruz and Daniel Borst.
“I wish to present extra of Mexico,” Machado mentioned in a press launch. “Individuals have requested for this, and we wish to give it to them — extra dishes from Mexico, extra choices.”
The menu at Mucho Más will embrace Carne Asada, Tasajo, Snapper a la Talla impressed by Chef Gabriela Camara, shrimp cocktail, and a traditional Tuna Tostada. Most of the dishes can be grilled on charcoal to make them stand out. The Tequileria, or Tequila Bar, will function wine and draft and bottled beer.
The constructing’s 3,200-square-foot house is present process a renovation by inside designer Jacquelyn Lindsey of JL Studio Design and guarantees to be a vibrant, eye-catching setting.
DTB, quick for Down the Bayou, by Chef Carl Schaubhut and Jacob Naquin, operated for 3 years on this location however suffered enterprise loss and uncertainty and closed throughout the pandemic. Jazzy Pete’s, a seafood restaurant owned by Peter Nguyen, opened right here final November. It was the second location of Jazzy Pete’s; the primary location opened in Slidell in 2019.
Jazzy Pete’s introduced the closure of their New Orleans location, through Facebook, on July 23.
“Mr. Pete is so busy with the totally different companies he owns, he needed to let one go, so he selected the New Orleans location,” a consultant of Jazzy Pete’s mentioned Wednesday. “He runs different companies right here and in Tennessee and Oklahoma, and he felt they weren’t all getting his full consideration. The restaurant stayed busy, and he hated to shut, however he was working quite a bit.”
Mucho Más plans to open within the fall.
