Since partnering in 2009, Chef Andrew Carmellini, Josh Pickard and Luke Ostrom have given rise to a dynamic portfolio of rest ... aurants and culinary services to preeminent hotels, live music venues, and major metropolitan sports arenas and airports. With a growing repute for delivering high quality service, efficient business practices and pertinent culinary culture, each venture is a distinctly owned, hand-crafted labor of love. Their commitment to this mission has left a history of critical acclaim, countless “Best of” lists, publication awards, a Michelin star, nominations from the James Beard Foundation and two coveted awards. The trio first partnered in 2009 to create Locanda Verde for Robert De Niro’s TriBeCa hotel, The Greenwich. The casually elegant tavern, has enjoyed praise and popularity for Carmellini’s urban Italian cooking. Two years later, the team opened The Dutch, an American restaurant serving roots-inspired cuisine in SoHo. Primed for expansion, they opened an outpost of The Dutch inside the W South Beach Hotel & Residences while also assuming the hotel’s food and beverage operations. 2012 brought the revitalization of The Public Theater where the team now oversees dinner and drink service inside Joe’s Pub and The Library, a cocktail lounge and supper club. In 2013, Lafayette, a French grand café and bakery, opened to much anticipation. Open morning, noon and night, the space houses a 160-seat dining room, rotisserie bar, two private dining suites and an all-day boulangerie-pâtisserie. In 2014, the team opened Bar Primi, a casual pasta shop on the Bowery, which has become an essential in Carmellini's range, fresh pasta traditionally prepared and cooked to order. The latest opening, Little Park, is a seasonal restaurant culminating Carmellini’s career-long partnerships with local farmers, vintners and foragers. In 2016, Carmellini, Ostrom and Pickard opened three food and beverage venues – Westlight, Leuca and Mister Dips – all located within The William Vale, a luxury boutique hotel in the heart of Williamsburg. 2017 brought the opening of Sagamore Pendry Baltimore where Carmellini and NoHo Hospitality Group oversee all food and beverage property-wide including Rec Pier Chop House, a prime Italian chop house, and The Cannon Room, an intimate whiskey bar. Rye Street Tavern, Carmellini’s latest American restaurant, opened in September 2017, adjacent to the Sagamore Spirit Distillery in Baltimore’s Port Covington neighborhood. read more