Josef Centeno's downtown restaurant Bäco Mercat has closed permanently

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The celebrated restaurant, which defined downtown dining over the last decade, will not survive the pandemic.

That latest blow to the city’s dining scene landed Saturday morning on Instagram: Chef and restaurateur Josef Centeno announced that he had closed his celebrated downtown restaurant Bäco Mercat for good., Centeno thanked his staff, customers and collaborators while also nodding to the unparalleled challenges restaurants are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout.

Opened in late 2011, Bäco Mercat emerged as one of the city’s singular dining experiences over the last decade, inseparable from the booming downtown food scene it had helped build.It was also the place where Centeno cemented his legacy as a chef, serving an ambitious polycultural menu filled with flatbread sandwiches and wildly creative vegetable dishes that former Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold once described as “a graduate exam in culinary poststructuralism.

 

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My experience with Main Street is a scary collection of bums and vagrants. Not a practical location for indoor, outdoor, or curbside dining.

This totally sucks.

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I feel like the trend is moving towards private menu drop-offs. The items need to travel well so picking the menu will be the greatest challenge but I would pay for a dining experience in the confines of my own home

thanks KiM JUNG NEWSOME

extreme sadness

Damn! I loved that place.

UGH!!!!

Citlalilucia sorry.

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