Update: SAMMY HAGAR's New Restaurant Venture With Tyler Florence Will Be A "Rustic" Affair
November 3, 2009, 14 years ago
Vicki Larson from Marinij.com is reporting:
Rocker/restaurateur SAMMY HAGAR and celebrity chef/cookbook author Tyler Florence may seemingly have nothing in common other than their hometown, Mill Valley, and a love of good food.
But that's all they needed to join together for a venture that celebrates both. Hagar, who turned 62 on October 13, and Florence, 38, have just signed a lease to take over El Paseo, the uber-romantic ivy-covered brick restaurant at 17 Throckmorton Ave. that dates back to 1948.
If all goes as planned, El Paseo will open under the same name in mid-December. While the name may be the same, the menu - which was first traditional French and, more recently, an Asian interpretation of modern French cuisine - will be anything but.
Think rustic American tavern but something more. "It doesn't necessarily have a label to it," says Florence. "It will be like Chez Panisse, but American rootsy, rustic. It will have a kinetic energy that makes sense in Mill Valley."
Adds Hagar, owner of the Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and Sammy's Beach Bar & Grill in St. Louis, "It will be fine dining in a rustic setting."
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