Aitor left Thinkfood Group in 2020 or so. This Somni is all him
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Please tell me it’s a regular restaurant and not one of those exclusive dinner club things for 10+ grand like Habitué
Hopefully not, although Somni was already very exclusive with maybe 10 seats? I can’t remember if it was 1 seating or two, but everyone is served together which made for a more efficient service. Their operation was likely indirectly subsidized by being within the same space as the much larger Bazaar, too. They had way more staff than Habitue or Hayato. If he’s going out on his own, I’m sure pricing will need to be expensive to be sustainable and it’ll depend on how much volume he can accommodate in the space he can afford to build out.
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Amazing news. Please share any info about reservations going live
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How do you all know so much about restaurants?
It was pretty common knowledge iirc Jose Andres made a post about it at the time on Insta. The much more interesting question is how did Aitor get to keep the rights to the Somni name and some of the signature plates etc. That whole breakup with SLS was really weird/shady; guess JA just let Aitor have the rights.
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It’s my job to stay informed 
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Ditto @rohto, someone please post here when rezzies go live…or maybe we can start a group chat or something?
if we get enough of us maybe we can just book it out for the night 
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I volunteer to be part of an FTC buyout if there is one.
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im in too!
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100% in for that
Looks like they are applying for their alcohol license location appears to be on Nemo st the street right behind the troubadour.
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Yep, @matthewkang reported on this back in November. Glad to see Somni in its final phase before opening! #TheDreamLives
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Totally missed that! Never got to try the first iteration hope this one is awesome. Damn you Covid!
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We should engineer a FTC takeover one of these days lol.
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first reported by the la times:
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yes I previewed the space with Aitor a while back and it was still in need of a lot of work, but very promising in terms of layout. It certainly has the feel of a landmark dining destination.
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Anyone have any updates? I see Aitor has been in the gym and seems like they’ve settled on their cutlery and plates, but any idea when we might be able to start dining?
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