By Andy Wang

One thing Los Angeles might not fully understand about chef Stephen Kalt, who just opened up modern Italian restaurant Spartina on Melrose Avenue, is how much of an OG New York culinary cat he really was. He cooked under Daniel Boulud and alongside a team including Jacques Torres atLe Cirque.

He went on to develop restaurants with partner Andrew Zimmern. But it was at his own Tribeca hot spot, the original Spartina that opened on Greenwich Street in 1994, where Mr. Kalt really made his name in the kitchen. It was a contemporary Italian restaurant that weaved in flavors from Spain and North Africa.

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