Their cafe, although unique to Sunset Park, faces a challenge in its location. Residents of Sunset Park, they married last August and share a 10-month-old daughter. Hernandez was a line cook, Medina a waitress, and the pair soon became friends, then a couple. Hernandez and Medina met three years ago at Morandi, restaurateur Keith McNally's Zagat-rated trattoria in Greenwich Village. 'We want it to be casual, but we also want it to showcase our experience with food.' 'We want to represent all the different Latin American cultures that have come here and the food influence, and how it's changed the way we eat,' Medina, 38, said. Hernandez and Medina will serve seafood, steak, and several Latin American selections, such as parrillada, an Argentinean mixed-grill dish, and the couple plans to open the restaurant's backyard in the spring. weekends, is slated to debut a dinner menu (and stay open later) next month.

'We just felt something was really missing in the area - some place we don't have to go to park Slope for, we don't have go to Red Hook for,' Hernandez's wife and co-owner, Maria Medina, said. 11, features La Colombe Coffee, breads and pastries from Park Slope's Colson Bakery, and a wide selection of eggs, sandwiches, soups and salads not soon found in Sunset Park. 'We're trying to bring a little East Village style to the neighborhood,' said Jose Luis Hernandez, 37, chef and co-owner of Cafe Zona Sur on Fourth Avenue at 43rd Street. SUNSET PARK - The executive chef of TriBeCa's Warren 77 pub - owned by ex New York Ranger Sean Avery - has opened a gourmet cafe and restaurant in the heart of Sunset Park, serving pastries, sandwiches, coffee and wines in a sunlit storefront featuring exposed brick walls and hand-crafted wooden tables. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook.

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