The team behind Mexican fine-dining restaurant Corima and burrito hotspot Vato is opening a new bar this spring. Bar Chucho will debut on the Lower East Side on 37 Market Street, at Madison Street, starting on Thursday, April 2.
Co-owner Jesse Kranzler tells Eater the team sees Bar Chucho as a sister bar to Corima, which is just a five-minute walk away. Beverage director Edward Hardebeck is making drinks, like the uni gin sour and the sotol-based Desert Rain. He’ll also offer a range of micheladas as well as nonalcoholic options.
Co-owner and chef Fidel Caballero’s food menu will be more casual than what’s served at Corima, though it’s still rooted in Mexican cuisine. The burger is in the style of carne asada, Caballero says, with dry-aged beef, beef garum (a fermented fish sauce), toreados (blistered peppers), queso chihuahua, bone marrow, and a burnt onion mayonnaise. The chilindrina is a wheat chicharron with tuna conserva salad, raw bluefin tuna, egg yolk, and habanero peppers. The mushroom gringa makes use of a flour tortilla from Vato filled with mushroom carnitas with cumin lamb flavors.
Caballero (an alum of Contra) and his wife and co-owner, Sofia Ostos, opened Corima in 2024. They followed with Vato in Park Slope in November 2025. (The team’s plans to turn daytime Vato space into a nighttime restaurant with Basque and Northern Mexican dishes are currently on hold.)
Bar Chucho will be open from 5 p.m. until late from Tuesday through Saturday.
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