Chefs Leicel Ros and Nancy Dominguez open modern Filipino restaurant Anako in Miami's Little River
Philippine-born chef Leicel Ros and her wife, chef Nancy Dominguez, are opening Anako, a modern Filipino restaurant with Southeast Asian influences, in Miami's Little River on 22 October, Resy reported.
Chefs Leicel Ros and Nancy Dominguez are opening Anako, a modern Filipino restaurant, in Miami's Little River neighbourhood on 22 October, Resy reported on 14 October. The couple are opening it with partner Nidal Barake, after co-founding Sili at Wynwood's 1-800-Lucky food hall. Anako is their first sit-down restaurant.
The name comes from "anak ko," Tagalog for "my child," which is how Ros' mother addresses her. According to Resy, Ros was born in the Philippines and grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and her family came to the United States through her uncle's Navy service. Dominguez was raised in Los Angeles in a Guatemalan family.
Resy listed pork-and-shrimp lumpia, kinilaw crudo, oxtail kare-kare and banana fritters with sesame caramel as essential dishes. The menu also includes bistek tartare with Wagyu, chicken inasal, sisig with crispy pig ears and pancit noodles with kohlrabi, and draws on Ros' studies and travels in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Made By Magazine reported that the restaurant seats 38 to 43 diners, with an open kitchen in the front dining area and a back room that will operate as a walk-in wine bar. Four seats at a chef's counter will be held for the Anako Experience, a tasting menu the team plans to introduce after opening.
Anako will open Thursdays to Mondays from 5 p.m. and plans to move to six days a week. Reservations drop one month in advance at midnight, and some dining room space will be held for walk-ins.
Key facts
- Anako, a modern Filipino restaurant by chefs Leicel Ros and Nancy Dominguez, opens in Miami's Little River on 22 October.
- The name comes from "anak ko," Tagalog for "my child."
- The restaurant seats 38 to 43 diners and has a four-seat chef's counter.
- It opens Thursdays to Mondays from 5 p.m., with reservations released one month in advance.
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