Orinda’s new Brothers General public Kitchen opens for Italian food items, wine, cocktails

A new Italian cafe with an emphasis on contemporary pasta, pizza and cocktails is reviving Orinda’s Theatre Square.

Brothers Public Kitchen is a loved ones undertaking, owned and operated by brothers Jason and Blair Bagneschi, who grew up in the Bay Place, graduated from De La Salle Higher College and fell in enjoy with seasonal cooking by looking at their Italian immigrant parents and grandparents.

Both equally have degrees relevant to eating places: Blair is a graduate of Northern Arizona University’s W.A. Franke University of Enterprise in Hotel and Cafe Management. Jason attended culinary college at Diablo Valley College’s Lodge and Cafe Management Software. Alongside one another, they have merged knowledge at some of the Bay Area’s prime dining establishments, together with San Francisco’s Quince and Wayfare Tavern and Walnut Creek’s Va De Vi and Walnut Creek Yacht Club.

The restaurant’s menu is a reflection of the Sunday roasts, relatives picnics and Italian social club gatherings of their youth. All the things is seasonal pasta and pizza dough are produced fresh new day by day. Starters incorporate beef meatballs with cape gooseberry escabeche and fava bean, pumpkin seed and mint pesto ($14). Glimpse for a few common pastas, like squid ink linguini and Manila clams with spring onion and white wine ($20), furthermore 5 pizzas, which includes a pepperoni, a housemade sausage and mushroom, and a spring pie made with smoked green garlic, ricotta, asparagus, pickled fresno chiles, provolone, arugula and rhubarb ($18). Mains are unfussy and incorporate a house-ground chuck burger and braised beef short ribs.

The wine checklist is small and centered on Italian and California producers. A glass of pinot grigio will run you $9 a tremendous Tuscan from Montepulciano, $14. Cocktails incorporate the two common and craft specialities, this kind of as the Beet Down, that includes beet-infused gin, Cocchi Americano, lime and coriander.

The Bagneschis aquired the place at 2 Theatre Square, Suite 144, again in September 2019 but did not open the restaurant until finally February. “Covid actually did a quantity on us,” Blair said by means of electronic mail.