The Super Nachos with steak served at Green Chile Kitchen. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle
Pies.
Odalisque Café & Grille closed in San Rafael in August, bidding goodbye but leaving Marin with the promise of a new restaurant to come soon.
Now, the papers are signed and it’s official. That new restaurant will be Green Chile Kitchen.
It will be an expansion of the San Francisco restaurant of the same name, and should be a strong addition to the neighborhood. Besides New Mexican stews and salads, the cafe specializes in sweet and savory hand pies that come with fillings like Fritos with ground beef and pinto beans stuffed in a handmade organic blue corn tortilla shell, or green chile apple pie a la mode with red chile honey drizzle.
Owner Ted Razatos has already secured his liquor license, he said, and is hiring staff now.
He’s confident he’ll pull together the necessary funds in time, too, since he has a long-standing background in the restaurant industry, with Mexican food in particular. A native of Santa Fe, his family owns one of the oldest family-run restaurants in New Mexico, The Plaza Café (specialty: green chile sopapillas, famous since 1949).
His brother Leonard owns The Plaza Cafe Southside also in Santa Fe, while another brother, Andy, recently opened the New Mexican-themed La Panza Café in Portland.
Green Chile Kitchen: 1335 Fourth St., San Rafael; Facebook