As the forthcoming Consume Street Crossing food items hall can take condition, fifty percent of its founding workforce has introduced a new tenant that will carry Brazilian pizza to Minneapolis.
Ouro Pizzaria is a new concept from Gabriella Grant-Spangler and Ben Spangler, the few driving Bebe Zito ice cream, and just one of the two duos overseeing the food items plan at Consume Street Crossing. (Zen Box Izakaya’s John Ng and Lina Goh are the Spanglers’ companions.)
Brazilian pizza, which is “recognized for elaborate common and nontraditional toppings” equally sweet and savory, in accordance to a release, is in close proximity to and expensive to Grant-Spangler. Her dad and mom are both from Brazil, where by Italian and Japanese immigrants both equally motivated a homegrown design and style of pizza.
Grant-Spangler’s family was among the all those Italian immigrants in Brazil, and with Ouro Pizzaria she strives to supply “an precise and nuanced representation of Brazilian food items in the Minneapolis culinary scene,” and to honor the legacy of her grandparents.
Grant-Spangler’s spouse, Ben Spangler, is the chef. The former pastry chef at Zelo and opening chef at Milkjam Creamery, Spangler has produced Bebe Zito’s ingenious flavors into quick icons on the Twin Cities’ ice product scene.
On the Ouro Pizzaria menu, glance for traditional pizzas with cheese and oregano and dessert pizzas with chocolate, clean fruit and doce de leite. Rounding out the menu are salads and other Brazilian street foodstuff.
A former inside designer, Grant-Spangler created a brand that is “rooted in the Brazilian modernist motion, bossa nova jazz and pure features of the region.” She would like the new space to be a sizeable departure from what the Twin Metropolitan areas appreciates of as Brazilian foods — steakhouses. “Oura Pizzaria greater articulates how Brazilians sense,” she stated. “Getting Brazilian is a diverse way of considering and a energetic technique to existence.”
Ouro usually means gold in Portuguese.
A single of the most anticipated openings of the new yr, Consume Road Crossing is a 15,000-square-foot meals hall within the Aged Arizona Studio (2821 Nicollet Av. S.). It will comprise six principles, some new and some by now current, additionally one particular cohesive bar plan, when it opens someday in wintertime 2023. Among the the predicted tenants are an outpost of Uptown-based mostly Bebe Zito, the everyday Ramen Shoten from Ng and Goh, and a Chatime tea. A bottle shop from beverage director Trish Gavin, the Liquor Exchange, is previously open up.
