Openings: Prairie Fire has opened in Brookline’s former Lineage space (242 Harvard St. at Longwood Avenue), the latest from the team behind Milton’s Steel & Rye. Enjoy “lots of oven-roasted vegetables, salads, handmade pastas, and spectacular sourdough for our wood-fired pizzas” from chef Brendan Joy, promises co-owner Dan Kerrigan.
International openings: Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer’s South End tapas parlor, Toro, has arrived in the United Arab Emirates. The pair’s newest restaurant, Toro & Ko Dubai, is slated to open this week at Dubai’s City Walk complex.
Oringer praised the Middle Eastern city’s “deep-rooted culture and culinary landscape” in a release, and the chefs promise to incorporate the country’s “local flavors and ingredients” in the menu. The concept is the same as in Boston: shareable small plates like Catalan bread with tomato, garlic prawns, and that famous grilled corn.
This is the restaurant’s second international outpost — there’s also a Toro in Bangkok, as well as a domestic version in New York City.
Pop-Ups: In other Spanish news, culinary incubator Wink & Nod (3 Appleton St. at Tremont Street) welcomes its newest resident, Pareja, on Sept. 11, run by chef Aaron Lhamon (“Hell’s Kitchen”) and sous chef Adam Rockholt (Cultivar). The pop-up serves grilled octopus, potato tortillas with onions and sofrito marmalade, house-made chorizo, paella, and whole roasted fish paired with a Spanish wine list and cocktails.
Revamps: Liquid Art House’s Ruta Laukien says that the Bay Village restaurant, known for its swanky art gallery, will close in the coming weeks for a transformation including a possible name and menu change (100 Arlington St. at Stuart Street). The restaurant has also partnered with Dogus Restaurant Entertainment and Management, known as d.ream, a Turkish hospitality company.
Laukien hopes for “global expansion” with a more casual ethos, she says.
“We want the restaurant to be approachable, fun, and good for groups. Sometimes people thought Liquid Art House was more fine dining, more high-end,” she says.
The new restaurant will still showcase art.
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