Maroma changes as the day goes on, and that is the whole idea. At lunch the room is bright and coastal, the sort of place where a ceviche and a cold glass of something make sense at noon. By dinner the lights come down, the patio glows, and the mesquite grill takes over. Chef Omar Flores calls it daylight to dusk. It is a simple concept, and the kitchen follows through on it.
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Omar Flores grew up in El Paso helping his father run family restaurants. Not as a dishwasher, not clearing plates — actually in the kitchen, learning how things worked from the time he was old enough to hold a knife. That early start shaped everything that came after.
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Omar Flores has another one coming. Maroma, the latest project from Big Dill Hospitality and the Marshi family, opens Monday, May 4 in the Design District at 1333 Oak Lawn Avenue, on the ground floor of the new Thirteen Thirty Three Building. The premise is coastal Mexican cooking — ceviches, aguachiles, raw bar, mesquite-grilled meats — done with the kind of restraint Flores has been known for since his Driftwood and Whistle Britches years.
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