Ladino

• Here we were working again with our friends from the Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group in a second generation space at the historic Pearl District in San Antonio.

  Ladino features Balkan, Greek, and Turkish-inspired cuisine along with a lively bar and lounge at the second floor. At the onset it was clear the existing rustic-industrial space was ill-suited to the live-fire cuisine, challenging program, and basic vibe envisioned by our clients. We modified the shell but embraced the existing Austin-common masonry as a primary finish while introducing plaster, oak, textiles, hand-made tile, and a general design language evoking – without telegraphing – the place of its cuisine, simultaneously acknowledging the restaurant’s context at the Pearl

• “Ladino, also referred to as Judeo-Spanish, is a mix of Castellano, French, Italian, Greek, Turkish and Hebrew. The language follows the route of the Jewish people’s migration from Spain dating back to the mid 1500s. Slowly on the path to extinction, this language is still spoken by some Sephardic Jews mainly in the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Israel.

  As a son to a Turkish mother and with roots in Italy, Bulgaria and Greece, Chef and Partner Berty Richter spoke Ladino at home growing up. Ladino showcases and shares not only the Jewish-Balkan cuisine Berty grew up with, but also the influences of the surrounding cultures and cuisines.” – Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group