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■ Let’s Talk Food Buttermilk —
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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Patric’s coming
back, Lamoraga
opens in Naples
Tasting fests, cooking
demos and special
dinners will start this
weekend in SWFL
Loosen your belt a notch.
Over the next three weeks, a
series of food fairs and cooking
demonstrations are calculated
to bring out your inner foodie.
Think of it as a fortuitous
convergence: Two local
“taste” festivals are
blended into the same
three weeks as ArtsNaples World Festival,
which has an Italian
theme that begs for cooking demonstrations to pair
with its concerts and exhibitions.
Take a look, make a reservation and enjoy:
SUNDAY
Taste of Collier: Tastings from more
than 30 restaurants, cooking competitions, ice carving demonstrations,
live music and children’s activities,
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Bayfront, Naples.
$5 admission and $5 parking. Food
tickets $1 each. 239-331-7371 or www.
tasteofcollier.com
THURSDAY
KELLY MERRITT
Daily News staff
TOP: Chef Dario Leo will offer a
demonstration of the Italian fare
of his childhood at Barbatella
restaurant May 9.
LEFT: Texas Tony’s barbecue
will come to the Blues, Brews
and Barbecue blowout during
CityFest May 9 and 10.
BELOW: Macarons on display at Le Macaron French
Pastries at Mercato.
YRE/STAFF (2)
SCOTT MCINT
Club at Olde Cypress, 7165 Treeline
Drive, Naples. $350
MAY 4
Taste of the Beach: Food festival
with music and samplings from
20 Fort Myers Beach restaurants,
11 a.m.-5 p.m. May 4, Old San Carlos Blvd., Fort Myers Beach. $5
for adults and children 12 and older;
Venetian masquerade: 7 p.m., The
See FESTS, 2D
Retiring his semiretirement, Patric is back.
Patric Achilles plans
to reopen his self-titled
restaurant a few blocks
farther east on Pine Ridge
Road from the last Patric’s,
which closed in
fall 2012.
Since then,
Achilles and
longtime partner Gary Teater DINING
have been oper- IN THE
ating the private
café at World
Tennis Club, a
gated community off Airport-Pulling Road only a
couple of miles from the
former Patric’s in Mission
Square West. They will
wrap up the private club’s
contract at the end of this
month.
Look for the new Patric’s to open May 19 in the
most recent space of Pee
Wee’s Diner in the shopping center that wraps
around the Hess gas station at Pine Ridge Road
and Yahl Street in North
Naples. The retail center’s
dining lineup also includes
Bonjour, Chinatown and
Grouper Grille.
In the nearly 20 months
since closing Patric’s,
Achilles and Teater had
a chance to take a breath,
recharge, and tie the knot
after 10 years together.
Their marriage renewed
their commitment to each
other and what they also
love — creating culinary
magic.
“We are going to do the
stuff that we’re known for,
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Korn to bring funk-metal sound to Fort Rock music festival Saturday
IF YOU GO
FORT ROCK
By Dave Osborn
[email protected]; 239-263-4896
Radio stations didn’t play
their music much, long before
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter,
Pandora, Instagram and other
social media platforms.
Yet the young men
who grew up in Bakersfield, Calif., somehow found success MUSIC
nearly 25 years ago. IN THE
And the now-fortysomethings who make
up Korn continue to
thrive.
Korn will be among the top
bands performing Saturday at
Fort Rock, an all-day music festival at JetBlue Park along Daniels
Parkway, just east of Interstate
75.
Event organizers have said
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What: All-day music festival,
featuring Korn, Rob Zombie, Five
Finger Death Punch and other bands
When: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. or later
Saturday
Where: JetBlue Park, 11581 Daniels
Parkway, Fort Myers
Cost: from $64.30
Info: fortrockfestival.com
they expect a crowd of more
than 10,000.
“Stations didn’t fit with the
format of what we were playing
at the time,” said James “Munky”
Shaffer, Korn’s guitarist and a
band co-founder.
“It was grunge, Nivrana,
Soundgarden, Jane’s Addiction.
I don’t think we fit with any of
that stuff.”
That didn’t seem to rattle
Korn in the early 1990s. Shaffer said the band continued to
experiment with its own sound.
“It kind of reflects our individual lives as people,” Shaffer,
43, said in a telephone interview
last week. “I think it was through
a lot of touring and people seeing
us live that people grew to sort
of an understanding of our music
and getting into it.”
Korn has produced 11 albums.
Its breakthrough “Follow the
Leader” in 1998 solidified them
as a legitimate musical act. Their
sound hasn’t dropped off a bit,
evident in Korn’s latest CD, “The
Paradigm Shift,” released last
year.
“It’s one of those things that,
on our first album, we were developing a new sound, but we
weren’t really conscious of it,”
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CHRIS BRADSHAW/SPECIAL TO THE DAILY NEWS
Guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer, center, leads Grammy Award-winning
rock band Korn aboard ShipRocked in November 2012. Korn will join Rob
Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch and 12 other bands for Fort Rock,
an all-day music festival at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers on Saturday.
TODAY: “Moon Over Buffalo,” a comedy of two mixed-up actors trying to memorize lines
THURSDAY: Hear the free performance by the
for their current plays while impressing a big-name director who wants stars for his own
Concert Band of Edison State College at 7:30 p.m.
new work, will open at 8 p.m. at Sugden Theatre, 701 Fifth Ave., Naples. The Naples Players
at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, 8099
production, $35 for adults and $10 for students, will run Wednesdays-Saturdays through
College Parkway, Fort Myers. Call 239-489-9332
May 17. Information and tickets: 239-263-7990 or wwwnaplesplayers.org.
for directions or more information.
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IN THE KNOW
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Lamoraga, 3936 U.S. 41 N., is open every day — 11:30
a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 5 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Information: 239-331-3669.
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simple and to the point,” Achilles said. “We have so many
people that have been asking us to come back. They are
our friends and family really.”
During Patric’s public hiatus, his followers especially
missed his all-day breakfasts, everything made from
scratch. Everyone has a favorite menu item: Patric’s
signature breakfast burrito, real corned beef hash, Briestuffed French toast, or a smoked salmon omelet with
lemon cream cheese.
Patric’s will serve breakfast all day, 6:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m., every day.
The full-service restaurant also has lunch daily, and
beer and wine are available.
The new extended menu features Patric’s breakfast
and lunch creations patrons have come to know and
love over the years with even more items, Achilles said,
including a CrossFit menu with a Paleolithic diet.
“There’s a lot of CrossFit folks in the area. I eat like
that all the time now,” he said.
The paleo diet, a nutritional plan based on the diet
of the Stone Age hunter-gatherer, consists mainly of
fish, grass-fed meats, eggs, vegetables, fruit and nuts.
It excludes grains and dairy products.
But Patric’s also has its regular favorites such as sausage gravy on homemade buttermilk biscuits — even
as a side order. A place that has a half-order of biscuits
and gravy as a side dish really gets my attention.
Southern charm deeply influences the menu through
home fries, cornbread and fried green tomatoes with
horseradish cream. The mix also is spiced up a bit with
a jerk chicken omelet, a chorizo skillet, and the forementioned breakfast burrito.
What wasn’t mentioned is that this all-day burrito is
wrapped around scrambled eggs, pork sausage, home
fries, black beans, tomatoes, onions, roasted red pepper and pepperjack cheese and is served with salsa
and sour cream.
The menu also has selections of pasta, sandwiches,
wraps, salads, muffins and mimosas. Dessert offers a
slice of Gary’s apple pie or bananas Foster cheesecake
or homemade cookies.
Reopening the restaurant, Achilles is retiring his
longtime local catering service.
“I have done that for 20 years and I’m passing the
hat,” he said.
Achilles continues to evolve. He operated Patric’s
from 2005 to 2007 adjacent to Oakes Farm Market on
Davis Boulevard in East Naples. After a brief hiatus,
including stints at the former Shark’s Cavern in Marquesa Plaza, The Real Macaw on Bayshore Drive and
a “reinvention period,” Achilles opened Patric’s in
North Naples in July 2009 and the next year expanded
into the adjoining space with a nightlife addition to his
breakfast-lunch business.
The pause button was pushed again in 2012, but Patric’s is gearing up for at least its third launch.
The new restaurant has only 41 seats, but it includes
a breakfast counter. Of course, pickup and delivery also
are available. Information: 239-596-7008.
Lamoraga opens
A new modern restaurant in Naples combines tradi-
FIlE
Patric Achilles and partner Gary Teater are back in the saddle
again with a new Patric’s restaurant set to open off Pine
Ridge Road in May.
tional Spanish delicacies with gourmet international
influences.
The first U.S. location of Lamoraga, a Spain-based
restaurant franchise, opened for dinner last week.
“The response has been overwhelming, extremely
positive,” said Charles “Chip” Shumway, general manager of Lamoraga Naples.
The restaurant and full bar opened April 14 along
U.S. 41 in the Park Shore area of Naples. It debuts
its lunch menu of contemporary Spanish cuisine on
Wednesday.
The extensive tapas menu includes sashimi dishes
($11-$12), beef and pork sliders ($7), meat croquettes
($10), lamb skewers ($12), steak and tuna tartar ($15),
seared foie gras ($16), calamari ($12) and cod fritters
($10). Various gazpachos ($5-$6) and salads ($12-$16)
also are available.
Entrees ($27 to $38) include Mediterranean Sea bass
($34), grilled salmon ($30), teriyaki chicken breast
($27), pork shoulder ($30), beef short ribs ($34) and
a dry-aged New York strip steak ($38). In addition to
tossed salad, mashed potatoes and sautéed vegetables,
sides include fries four ways, quinoa tabbouleh, shiitake mushrooms and spinach gratin.
Desserts ($5 to $9) include assorted sorbets, cheesecake, a fig tart, and warm chocolate cake with coconut
ice cream and raspberry drizzle. Lamoraga Delight
is coconut milk-laced bread pudding with vanilla ice
cream; A Piece of Heaven is Grand Marnier -laced
frozen soufflé over ginger cookie crumble.
The 5,300-square-foot, full-service restaurant created from a transformed office building has 150 seats
in its dining room, bar and outdoor patio. The dining
room includes a unique feature similar to a chef’s table,
Shumway said.
“The kitchen is completely open and we have a community table that wraps around the open kitchen with
26 seats,” he said.
The Naples’ location is the company’s first completely freestanding restaurant. Other locations are in Spain
and Germany, with plans for locations in Hungary and
the United Arab Emirates.
Plans already are in the works to open other locations throughout Florida, said Shumway, a lifelong
Naples resident who previously owned Bistro 821,
co-owned the former Zoe’s, and managed Chops City
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■ Pasta Spot opened in March in south Fort Myers
by the former local franchisees of Elevation Burger.
The new restaurant borrows the simple build-yourown concept that has been successful for personalizing
Chipotle burritos and Subway subs, allowing patrons to
mix and match selections of pasta, sauces and toppings.
For instance, choose a pasta — spaghetti, linguine,
penne, farfalle, capellini, fettucine and even a glutenfree short noodle made of corn and rice — a choice of
protein such as chicken, shrimp, sausage and meatball;
and top it with a choice of sauce — including Alfredo,
marinara, meat, tomato basil and rosé blends. Sauteed
vegetable selections also are available.
Resulting dishes are weighed and charged $6.95 per
pound. For online ordering, the approximate price for
a regular pasta bowl is $6.95 and a large pasta bowl is
about $8.50, according to mypastaspot.com.
Pasta Spot, 15301 McGregor Blvd., is open 11 a.m. to
9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 8 p.m.
Sunday. Delivery is available within a four-mile range
by calling 239-689-4313.
■ Little Caesars reopened Tuesday in Bed Bath &
Beyond Plaza in North Naples. Franchisee Luis Velez
opened the pizzeria in the same space that another
franchisee operated the chain restaurant for 24 years
until closing in September 2011.
This latest location is the fifth for Velez, who also
owns and operates units in Bonita Springs, Golden Gate,
Immokalee and the newly acquired location at Collier
Boulevard and Pine Ridge Road. Little Caesar’s is the
national chain best known for its Hot N’ Ready pepperoni, cheese and sausage pizzas available any time
for $5.
The new area location for Little Caesars, 5337 Airport-Pulling Road, is open 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. every
day. For pickup orders, call 239-431-7380.
■ Boba Tea 21 opened Friday in a food court kiosk in
Coastland Center mall in Naples. The new retail shop
offers Taiwanese-style tea drinks, coffees, smoothies,
slushies and desserts such as caramel flan cake and
shaved ice with fresh fruit.
Boba Tea’s concept is based on a drink invented decades ago in tea shops in Taiwan. Large, chewy tapioca
balls, called bobas or pearls, are added to a tea base
mixed with fruit or milk.
The more than 30 flavors of dessert beverages range
from almond to taro, including fruits such as banana,
cantaloupe, kumquat, mango and strawberry. Other
flavors include coconut, chocolate, coffee and green
tea, according to bobatea21.com.
Boba Tea 21, 1900 U.S. 41 N., is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Monday through Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Its kiosk is just inside the food court’s southeast entrance, near the carousel amusement ride. Information:
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