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Major Food Group Returns to the Old Neighborhood
Rich Torrisi, Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick will open a restaurant in the Puck Building loosely based on Torrisi Italian Specialties.
From left, Rich Torrisi, Jeff Zalaznick and Mario Carbone in a 2013 photo.Credit.Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
March 10, 2021
Having planted their flag all over the city, Rich Torrisi, Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick, the restaurateurs behind Major Food Group, are going back to their roots.
They are planning to open a new restaurant in the fall just a few steps from their original Torrisi Italian Specialties, an ode to Italian-American food and delis that Mr. Torrisi and Mr. Carbone, alums of Daniel Boulud’s restaurants, first opened on Mulberry Street in 2009. Mr. Zalaznick joined them later.
Updated on January 18, 2021 at 12:55 pm
On this episode of our
Scene in San Diego podcast, we talk about the newest project to hit San Diego’s hotel dining scene: Ember & Rye, a restaurant by “Top Chef” alum Richard Blais, at Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad.
Blais joins the conversation to talk about why the new restaurant is making him so nervous and how he’s prepping for the project. The Crack Shack and Juniper & Ivy alum always has a lot of eyes on him and, at the end of the day, he just wants to make good food and “make people happy.”