Menlo Park is getting a Michelin-cred chicken and wine restaurant

Café Vivant, a restaurant specializing in birds of heritage corral raised in the mountains of Santa Cruz, and fine -gain supplier, some wineries are scheduled to open in a double concept of 5000 square feet Menlo Park this summer.

Behind the concept, set in the old Le Boulanger Cafe in Santa Cruz Avenue, there are Sommeliers and Chicago chefs from New York City.

Leading the project are the submissors and restorers Jason Jacobeit and Daniel Jung. The two come from the city’s height end scene, where they shaped wine programs in restaurants such as Bâtard and Tribeca Grill before co -founding some wineries, according to a press release. On their trips, they were fascinated by French and Japanese cultural inverse to the patrimonial poultry races.

“In these countries, the approach does not focus on conventional agricultural labels and lifestyle supplies such as ‘organic’ or ‘free scope’, but of the birds of heritage races appreciated by their robust genetics, which says directly, a complex flavor,” “.

But when they returned to the United States and began looking for birds of Corral of Heritage, they could not find many in the United States, at least at the scale and the standards they were looking for. Then, with Rob James of the Fishing Corvus farm, they invested in a farm of 80 acres in the mountains of Santa Cruz, cultivating high seasonal products while breeding chickens, guinea chickens, quail, partridges, pigs, sheep and rabbits.

“During the last seven months, our farm has been the zero zone for an ambitious research and development project on the poultry genetics of all heritage,” says Jacobeit. “Everything is designed to prioritize both exceptional flavor and magnary administration.”