Find the secret door to reach new ‘exclusiva’ restaurant

They’ve done everything they could to support it a secret, but the quality is out.

La Cocina Exclusiva, from the owners and operators of El Dorado Cantina, volition unfastened astatine 5 p.m. contiguous successful a abstraction adjacent to the restaurant’s Tivoli Village location.

The abstraction has housed a fig of restaurants implicit the years, astir precocious Hamptons. After that closed, the El Dorado owners took it implicit and usage the downstairs portion erstwhile their ain edifice reaches overflow status.

But the upstairs portion is making a modulation this evening into La Cocina Exclusiva, with an accent connected the “exclusiva.” Find the doorway concealed arsenic portion of the wall, descent it backmost and caput up the stairs to the intimate eating abstraction that seats 25 to 30 and has a balcony and bar.

It’s conceived arsenic speakeasy-meets-global cuisine with a absorption connected progressive Latin. Specialties see a seafood tamale with shrimp, crab and escabeche successful yellowish curry with Oaxaca cheese, sofrito and cilantro successful squid-ink masa, and plant-based yam croquette tacos, made with breaded yam and Oaxaca food with chile de arbol, soy pick sauce, pineapple, reddish onion, granular “caviar” lime and micro-cilantro.

Running the room are John Miranda, firm cook of El Dorado Cantina’s 3 locations and La Cocina Exclusiva, whose acquisition includes clip with esteemed chefs Joel Robuchon and Pierre Gagnaire, and Robert Miestrell, enforcement cook of La Cocina Exclusiva, who astir precocious was elder sous cook astatine the Waldorf Astoria.

Hours are 5 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays done Saturdays. The spot is truthful concealed it doesn’t person a website, but you tin telephone 702-447-0502. Shh.

Contact Heidi Knapp Rinella astatine Hrinella@reviewjournal.com. Follow @HKRinella connected Twitter.