Simply as the entire world was compelled to withdraw, chef Celso Vieira and his spouse and companion Valeska Chálabi Calazans, from the Pasta em Casa Group, had an unlimited want to fly larger.
On the eve of celebrating 10 years of Restaurante Pasta em Casa – chosen 3 times as the most effective Italian restaurant within the metropolis by Veja journal and listed among the many 100 greatest eating places in Brazil by Exame journal – as a substitute of surrendering factors to worry, the stressed couple moved by the fervour for challenges , selected to feed her desires and began to embroider the your latest enterprise that may take them to the group degree.
And if till then that they had honored the chef’s Italian roots, this time they might dive into Mediterranean waters, the identical ones the place our hero Grandpa Tuffi had ventured firstly of the twentieth century on the age of 19, fleeing Mount Lebanon ravaged by the First World Battle in direction of Brazil, the place he would type the Chálabi Household, now in its fourth era.
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The idea of Casa Chálabi was created from these historic, household, affective and primarily culinary reminiscences of the Valeska household, lovingly rescued by the couple and remodeled by the fingers of chef Celso Vieira into the Lebanese-Mediterranean delicacies of what’s now Grupo Pasta em Casa, and which started circulating in supply format in June 2021, nonetheless through the pandemic.
As soon as the model and the basis menu have been created, it was time to search for somebody very particular who may imprint a contemporary freshness to run the kitchen; and never since they met her
that they had doubts: this individual was the chef from São Paulo Lais Taraia, of Syrian origin, who not solely introduced freshness however went far past bringing a pleasant sprint of daring, increasing the menu with creativity and variety, betting on lightness, well being, vegan choices and as soon as once more, in freshness, one in every of its biggest emblems, printed not solely on the menu that can flow into across the tables within the corridor but additionally on the varied objects at Empório Casa Chálabi.
On the sidewalk
It was firstly of 2022 that chef Laís Taraia took cost of the kitchen, selling her first contributions to the menu, supplied to the general public for the primary time in individual throughout a scrumptious season of experiences on the sidewalk of the Pasta em Casa unit in Rio Vermelho, which lasted till April of this yr. An vital and tireless interval of basic laboratory and maturation earlier than the solo flight to your personal house.
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the brand new home
Casa Chálabi opens its doorways on the twenty third of Could (Tuesday) at Buying H Mall in Horto Florestal, open from Monday to Saturday from 9am to 8pm, and Sundays and holidays from 9am to 3pm.
With a venture signed by Marcelo Alvarenga from Play Arquitetura (Pasta em Casa Alphaville) that brings the household’s reminiscences to a contemporary and charming setting (manufacturers of the group), the house – which affords, along with the Empório, a room with capability for 30 seats – guarantees elicit sighs of enchantment.
“Our house was created and devoted to offering glorious circumstances for our manufacturing course of. Within the kitchen, constructed from the gastronomic reminiscences of the Chálabi household, we gave a recent and daring contact to conventional recipes”, says Chef Laís Taraia.
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To meals
From the custom of kibbeh (uncooked, fried or baked), sfihas and spreads for the home pita bread, passing by means of vegetarian variations of classics similar to grape rolls and moussaka made with mushrooms and goat’s milk, to mjadra with a twist of hen, the chef’s watchwords are taste, freshness, boldness and variety. “We’re proposing uncommon combos in all areas of our menu, from starters to drinks and desserts, at all times giving every one a unique contact. It does not matter if we serve a sandwich or the lamb that takes virtually 48 hours to be prepared, all our objects have one thing very particular”, reinforces Taraia.
And so, with every thing prepared and embroidered by hand, Grupo Pasta em Casa delivers one other dream come true for the town of Salvador.
SERVICE:
Chalabi Home
Opening: Could 23 (Tuesday)
Location: Buying H Mall in Horto Florestal
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 9am to 8pm; Sundays and holidays from 9am to 3pm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casachalabi/
