Food & Wine Magazine To Host Best New Chefs Dinner in Marina del Rey

To celebrate the grand opening of Paichẽ, a new Peruvian-inspired restaurant in Marina del Rey, Food & Wine magazine will host two dinner parties this week.

A 6-course menu will be served on Tuesday and Wednesday, serving dishes such as scallop pickled with juniper and seaweed, and squid in pasta with braised octopus and olives and bottarga. The meals will cost $62 per person, and cocktails will be $10. For a list of all the courses, click here.

Tuesday, Paichẽ Chef Ricardo Zarate will team up with Naomi Pomeroy of Portland’s Beast, and on Wednesday, he will reunite with Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs finalists Jamie Bissonnette of Coppa and Toro in Boston and Viet Pham, a Utah-based chef who won the magazine’s best new chef award in 2011. 

Paichẽ takes its name from the Amazonian fish Paichẽ, a freshwater fish that can grow up to 400 pounds. Zarate already runs two L.A. restaurants, Mo-Chica and Picca, but this will be his first on the Westside.

To make a reservation for Tuesday or Wednesday, call 310.893.6100 or e-mail events@paichela.com.