Don’t worry, they will do cheesecakes. But otherwise, there will be a great deal that is different this time out, when La Cueva (Spanish for The Cave) opens at 5244 Blowers on Friday, February 13. “We’re just renting the property,” says La Cueva manager Anthony Smith, who walked in there was a new plan for the restaurant space that in past years was called La Cave, Stonehaven and, briefly, Stonewall, and most recently had a “fully equipped restaurant” for rent sign out front. “We’ve been at it for about three weeks. There weren’t too many repairs.” Smith says it won’t be as expensive a menu as in the past, with a focus on Latin American and Peruvian cuisine. “There’ll be a lot of different food that you don’t get in Halifax.”
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2009.