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Thanin Viriyaki
Adrian Burciaga, Rodrigo Cárdenas.
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Thanin Viriyaki
Coming later this year, Dos Mares will feature butterflied branzino with avocado mousse and black bean puree.
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Thanin Viriyaki
At this year’s Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival, Fort Worth restaurateur Adrian Burciaga will celebrate the three-year anniversary of one restaurant and the birth of another.
Along with business partner and chef Juan Ramón Cárdenas, Burciaga has spent the past three years building a name for Don Artemio, the pair’s award-winning Mexican restaurant in the Cultural District. Opened in 2022, the restaurant has won acclaim near and far, from snagging local and regional culinary trophies to landing a nomination for the coveted Best New U.S. Restaurant Award in the 2023 James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards.
Now, the two are hard at work on another concept, Dos Mares, a seafood-driven restaurant slated to open late spring/early summer, right next door to Don Artemio.
Burciaga says the two restaurants will be very different from one another. While Don Artemio culls its culinary inspiration from Northeast Mexico land and sea cuisine, Dos Mares will put a clear emphasis on seafood from both the Baja and Gulf beaches of Mexico. Its name, after all, translates to “two seas.”
“The two restaurants will complement one another,” he says. “We do a few seafood dishes at Don Artemio. At Dos Mares, seafood will be our main focus.”
Dos Mares’ menu will include dishes such as a potato-crusted sea bass served with guajillo chipotle butter sauce on a bed of cauliflower rice; grilled, butterfly-cut branzino garnished with avocado mousse and black bean puree; and baja tacos filled with beer-battered striped bass, red cabbage slaw, serrano aioli and a charred ranchero salsa, all served on a housemade tortilla.
Cardenas’ son Rodrigo is also involved in Dos Mares, as he’s helping dad and Burciaga with the development of the menu, along with other restaurant-opening plans.
Burciaga says an executive chef will soon be in place to execute the menu and help launch the restaurant sometime in the next few months. In the meantime, attendees of this year’s Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival will get to sample some of Dos Mares’ forthcoming dishes.
“It’s a special year at the festival for us,” Burciaga says. “To celebrate the anniversary of one restaurant and the beginning of another — that just means so much to us.”
Dos Mares, 3260 W. Seventh St., instagram.com/dosmares.restaurant
