Did you see Kina Chavez’s recipe for pozole verde printed right here final week? If it was too lengthy and an excessive amount of work, run, don’t stroll, to what Chavez is re-launching at this time, April 1, as Kina’s Kitchen & Bar, previously generally known as her PKB, Picazo Kitchen & Bar and Breakaway Café earlier than that.
Kina’s Pozole Verde features a Mary’s hen thigh, bone broth, natural hominy, and garnishes of radish, cabbage, corn tortilla strips, cilantro and lime ($10 or $18).
Numerous tequila and mezcal margaritas, even in pitchers, and sangria might begin your night or might not.
The brand new menu reveals Kina Chavez’s purpose of serving Mexican and American meals, not Mexican-American meals.
New tastes may embrace beet or shrimp tostadas on gluten-free tortillas; Brussels sprouts fried and topped with bacon and jalapeño jam; and popcorn scallops made with gluten-free flour.
Virtually all the things on the menu is natural and as native as doable, and the mezcal and tequila come from husband Sal Chavez’s mezcal winery in Mexico.
You’ll nonetheless discover their well-known burgers, fish and chips, natural pesto pasta with hen, Nashville fried hen and even Portobello fajitas.
Sal Chavez all the time stated he needed this restaurant to be Kina’s and now it really is. And she or he comes by her culinary background actually. Her mom, Maria, has cooked at Juanita Juanita for greater than 30 years. Sal’s father, Don Chavez, makes the entire pastries for each Picazo Café on Arnold Drive and Kina’s Kitchen & Bar.
In actual fact, Kina Chavez is now in command of Kina’s Kitchen & Bar, Picazo Café, and the Picazo meals truck.
If you’re free this afternoon, Friday, April 1, make it over to Kina’s at 2:30 p.m. for the official re-launch and re-branding with $5 margaritas and $5 guacamole and chips. Seniors low cost of 20% on Wednesdays. Hours: Monday by way of Friday 3 to 9 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday 8 a.m. to eight p.m. No corkage charge. 19101 Freeway 12, Sonoma.
