2024-08-19 21:48:22
The Transamerica Pyramid and a neighboring building known as Panamericana III are undergoing renovations, and everything seems to be moving forward at full speed. Miami chef Brad Kilgore is planning two new restaurants in the building, one of which will be more of a daytime cafe.
Back in June, we learned that Kilgore was involved in the Transamerica renovation/redevelopment project being overseen by developer Michael Shvo. Shvo broke the news, announcing a September reopening date for the tower and announcing a two-day TEDAI conference in October. In retrospect, however, this positive press appears to have been an attempt to preempt the negative reports that would surface a few weeks later regarding Shvo’s legal dispute with the founders of CORE Club, a private club planning to open a branch .
There is no mention of CORE in the latest updates from Kilgore and Shvo, which Seems to have been given as proprietary to the SF standard. The report simply noted that Kilgore’s company, Kilgore Culinary, will be responsible for food and beverage supply at the tower’s new Sky Lounge and 48th-floor cocktail bar, which will be for tenants only.
By October, Kilgore plans to open Cafe Sebastian in the building formerly known as 545 Sansome (now Transamerica Three). He told the Standard it will be an upscale cafe serving breakfast and lunch, including homemade pastries, coffee and espresso, grab-and-go sandwiches and salads, and a “rich” half-bottle wine lineup for a slightly… A boozy lunch or picnic.
By December – or at least that’s what they’re saying now – the team plans to open Ama by Brad Kilgore, which is described as “an ambitious ’70s-inspired concept store that’s part bar, part restaurant, part hi-fi lounge”. on Pan Am III. The food will focus on bancha, which is a Japanese take on Italian cuisine and is heavily influenced by Japan.
before kilgore Itameshi concept store opened in Miami at the end of last year Brad Kilgore calls it Oise.
Ama’s restaurant certainly sounds like it has a club vibe, complete with a DJ booth and wooden speakers, and it follows a recent mini-trend of Japanese hi-fi bars in San Francisco—which includes Harlan Records and monsteras well as the food menu.
Ama will offer tasting menus and a la carte options, including hand rolls and sashimi, and some of the Miami restaurant’s menu items are giving us a clue — like a chicken-fried steak sandwich and pasta udon.
In addition to the two restaurants, renderings previously released by Transamerica project architect Norman Foster + Partners also show a newly activated redwood grove next to the tower, as well as a retail strip with ample outdoor seating.
Among other concepts at the complex, we just learned that Kilgore’s wife, pastry chef Soraya Caraccioli-Kilgore, will be opening a branch of her Miami ice cream company, Crazy Lab Creamerycalled MadLab Kakigori. It will serve Japanese-style shaved ice and ice cream.
Before: Transamerica Pyramid to Reopen to the Public in September to Host TED Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Above: Photo by Joseph Barrientos
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