How to pronounce “amada” in English

Tell us about how you opened your first restaurant, and about scaling so many restaurants in such a short amount of time, which is pretty impressive.Yeah. So my first restaurant, Amada, opened in 2005, and I basically opened that with a small business loan, a coupleprivate equity investors, and we were able to pull it together.

And what do you focus on when you're thinking about your next concept?Well, I have a design firm that I've worked with since we started Amada in 2005.They're called Creme Design, and they're out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

We might travel somewhere.So, for instance, in order to design Amada, we were in San Sebastian and Barcelona, and started to really get a lookand feel for the cuisine and the culture and the different-- and really, really to capture that feeling of a Spanish Tapas restaurant.

lot from the way you use the B I actually direct I'm the I'm the music director now of the you mentioned theAcademy of St Martin the fields which is an orchestra that's made many many recordings including amadas soundtrack and a lot of things and I I when Iconduct them we don't have a conductor waving a stick we do it just from my gestures from playing the violin I play