Much has been speculated about the new restaurant from James Beard Foundation Best Chef Southwest finalist Hugo Ortega and his wife and business partner, Tracy Vaught, but the pair has heretofore kept the Post Oak Boulevard venture under wraps.
The project's title finally leaked in a B4 U EAT newsletter: Caracol is to be the name of the Mexican seafood restaurant spanning 8,000 square feet on the ground floor of the new BBVA Compass Plaza.
A spokesperson confirmed to Alison Cook that the name references an edible sea snail common along the coast of Mexico and said that Ortega has snagged chef Daniel Bridges to help develop the menu and run the kitchen.
Caracol, which will be neighbor to chef John Sheely's Italian concept Osteria Mazzantini, is expected to open in September.
