By: Hakim Asraf (hakimasraf) | Pearltrees

Hakim Asraf (hakimasraf) | Pearltrees — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 07:30:03 +0000

[…] In the Kitchen at Her Name Was CarmenEssential Homme Magazine. Since opening its doors a year ago, Her Name Was Carmen‘s contagious dancefloor and sumptuous cuisine has been reviving the downtown scene. By mixing media, fashion, Latin American influences, haute cuisine, Carmen has become a welcome fixture in SoHo that promises all its patrons a solid good time. We’ve talked with Chef Omar Ben-Hammou to find out more about the behind-the-scenes of the kitchen. Launched by Thatcher Shultz and Andres Diaz, Carmen was always a faraway dream. On its first anniversary, Diaz shared sketches of his dream establishment on Instagram, with some dating back to 2009. And Carmen, as she’s intimately known, is the dream that one never quite achieves — in short, the name comes from a New York tale of a Latin American girl always first on the dancefloor, likes to eat well, sometimes drinks a bit too much tequila, and yet is beloved by everyone. […]

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By: Hakim Asraf (hakimasraf) | Pearltrees