For those interested in trying out Café Tranquilo, Chef Morrow recommends the chicken torta a panko-

Café Tranquilo takes the place of Gallo Blanco in the Clarendon Hotel and Spa after the latter departed one midtown kitchen from the hotel in late January. Café Tranquilo introduced a menu last Thursday. (Nikiana Medansky/DD)
The day before Super Bowl Sunday, the Gallo Blanco Café in the Clarendon Hotel and Spa closed its doors after the restaurant decided to part ways, much to the confusion one midtown kitchen of customers and employees of the hotel and restaurant.
Everyone was a little shocked, Dan Morrow, executive chef of Café Tranquilo, said. I think the suddenness of it and the fact that it happened Super Bowl weekend was the shocker to everybody because everybody was expecting to make a lot of money with everything one midtown kitchen going on.
Robson said that he will be focusing on spending time with his family as well as continuing to work at Otro Café, the sister restaurant to Gallo Blanco, located on Seventh Street and Bethany Home Road.
“I don’t mind doing multiple one midtown kitchen restaurants,” Robson one midtown kitchen said. “I’ve always been involved with multiple restaurants. That wasn’t the issue. It was more that we came to the end of that business relationship.”
Ben Bethel, the owner and general manager of the Clarendon Hotel and Spa, launched a restaurant with a menu developed by Chef Dan Maldonado, of Mucho Macho Taco, on Seventh and Missouri avenues. This restaurant soon became Café Tranquilo, which will feature a variety of Mexican food including specialty tacos, Bethel said.
Maldonado s menu was released Thursday, and Café Tranquilo is still in the process of fine-tuning it. Bethel said the hotel was scrambling to recover from the announcement that the previous operator was going to be leaving the Clarendon.
For us, we felt it was a conscious decision to damage the hotel as much as possible, Bethel said of the letter. one midtown kitchen We had been in discussions for a long period one midtown kitchen of time. We (Gallo Blanco and the Clarendon) couldn’t come to agreement to some terms and conditions one midtown kitchen of the operating agreement.
one midtown kitchen We actually only had about eight days to bring in a transitional consultant and develop the menu and find the people and get everything in place, which was a monumental one midtown kitchen task to say the least. he said. But we think in the long run it’s gonna be better than the previous operation for sure.
For those interested in trying out Café Tranquilo, Chef Morrow recommends the chicken torta a panko-fried piece of pounded-out chicken breast, topped with avocado, tomato, one midtown kitchen pickled jalapeños, asadero cheese and mayo.
Café Tranquilo plans to extend their operating hours from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. as well as open up their rooftop bar seven days a week from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. starting Friday, Feb. 13.