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Who’s behind it: Altamarea Group, the hospitality company founded by CEO Ahmass Fakahany, operates more than 20 restaurants worldwide, including Wine Spectator Grand Award Winner Ai Fiori in New York. Best of Award of Excellence winner, Marea, located on Central Park South, is the company’s first restaurant and its flagship. The group recently took the fine-dining Italian seafood restaurant to Beverly […]

Chef Matt Adler is winning red sauce fans at Caruso’s Grocery and drawing Cucina Morini crowds for $7 martinis — and now he’s boomeranging back to Navy Yard’s Osteria Morini. Why it matters: Adler is taking over the same Altamarea Group kitchen that he helped open 11 years ago in a new “culinary advisory” role with the NYC-based company. Between the

The wavy brick effect on Marea’s Beverly Hills facade offers a hint at what’s inside. The new Italian seafood restaurant from the high-flying Altamarea Group is a polished power-lunch destination serving fresh seafood and homemade pastas alongside a comprehensive menu of caviars, oysters and sashimi from the Pacific, seven miles away. Marea Beverly Hills’ surf-and-turf interiors are