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Owner James Bramante, proprietor of the retro movie house Studio Cinema, which is next door, and Dan Whalen of The Food in My Beard blog, collaborated to develop the cafe’s Mexican-inspired menu and fill the location previously occupied by the Italian eatery Angelato, owned by Angelo Firenze, who closed the storefront and sold his wholesale gelato production to Bindi Desserts, an Italian company. (Firenze now works for Bindi USA.)