Special Menu Debuts for Tennis Fans at The Indian Wells Tennis Garden
WHO: Porta Via is a contemporary California bistro and bar with three Southern California locations, and, since 2022, a restaurant in Palm Desert. Porta Via restaurants serve lunch and dinner seven days a week, weekend brunch, offering Italian-inspired cuisine honoring proprietor Peter Garland’s cooking philosophy: “combine the best seasonal, organic ingredients and prepare them simply.” The menu is designed to be both classic and creative, with just the right amount of imagination to give patrons the feeling they’re at a “special” place. Garland and his staff hand-pick produce to ensure that only the finest food is served at his restaurants. Wild-caught & sustainable seafood and “all natural” meats are brought in daily, and the wine program features small-production wines, both domestic and imported, as well as organic, natural wines, craft cocktails & local beers.
WHAT: Porta Via Popup at the BNP Paribas Open, a temporary, full-service restaurant & bar at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Porta Via at the BNP Paribas Open offers a unique, full-service food, drink and cocktail menu crafted especially for the Open. It features favorites like the miso-glazed Chilean seabass with sautéed bok choy, sticky rice, toasted sesame, and scallions; grilled Ōra King salmon with roasted organic market vegetables, and organic brown rice; the New England Lobster Roll—deshelled Maine lobster on a toasted brioche bun and house made potato chips; fried calamari; and plenty of veggie/vegan options including a vegan burger; butternut squash ravioli and the legendary Porta Via salad comprising organic butter lettuce, shaved sweet onion, fresh dill and chervil, avocado and French feta, champagne shallot vinaigrette. Feeling extravagant? Porta Via offers caviar service.
Porta Via’s BNP Paribas cocktail program features eight signature cocktails, including: La Piña Picante, Dobel tequila, house-infused with jalapeño agave, pineapple, lime juice; the Desert Spritz, with Aperol, gin, grapefruit, elderflower & prosecco; and the Rumor Rosé Awakening, with Rumor Rosé, gin, basil, grapefruit; lemon, and elderflower.
WHEN: March 6th through March 17th, 2024, 11:00am to 11:00pm daily
WHERE: BNP Paribas at The Indian Wells Tennis Garden, restaurant located in Stadium #1, accessible to all ticket types
WHAT ELSE: No reservations taken at BNP Paribas Open popup. In the desert and off the premises? Please Join us at Porta Via Palm Desert at the Shops on El Paseo, 73100 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260 Reservations at portaviarestaurants.com or resy.com
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