Unfolding across a 1,100-square-foot space, Café Mars marries Italian-American tradition with a bold and playful design concept. Located in Brooklyn, New York’s developing Gowanus neighborhood, the restaurant was dreamed up by New York-based Format Architecture Office in close collaboration with cofounding chefs Jorge Olarte and Paul D’Avino.
As guests enter Café Mars, the pasta die door handle is a whimsical nod to the building’s past lives as a pasta factory and Italian grocery. The location is also situated across from D’Avino’s great-grandfather’s first residence in the U.S. after immigrating from Italy in 1901.
