By Jenn Harris

Melrose Avenue is about to be home to a new neighborhood Italian restaurant. Stephen Kalt, known as the former executive chef of Corsa Cucina at the Wynn Las Vegas and as the chef at Fornelletto at the Borgata Hotel and Casino, is opening his newest venture, Spartina, in the former Melgard space at the corner of Melrose Avenue and Gardner Street.

Kalt was most recently the chef at Caulfield's at the Sixty Beverly Hills. Spartina will be a reincarnation of a restaurant he opened in New York City in 1993, also called Spartina. Kalt described the East Coast version as focusing on Mediterranean, Spanish, southern Italian and north African flavors.

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