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Mo-Chica’s Ricardo Zarate Delivers A Baby Girl

Ricardo Zarate
Ricardo Zarate Photo: Hadley Tomicki via LATaco

Our congratulations go out to Mo-Chica master and Wabi Sabi chef Ricardo Zarate, who helped deliver his own healthy 9-lb. baby daughter yesterday morning at home. In a quick birth-announcement, Zarate relates how he called 911 but got his address wrong in a nervous state and had to chase the ambulance down his street when it passed by his house. While Zarate is mulling over naming the baby Marquesa for the street she was born on, he jokes “Maybe we should call her ‘sofa’ as that’s where she entered the world.” The chef adds “One good thing…I won’t have to explain to my son where babies come from. He saw the whole thing.” Zarate will also give birth to his own pop-up at Breadbar’s Hatchi Series next month, plus a month of different menus at BreadBar Santa Monica’s Hatchi Roku in February.

Mo-Chica’s Ricardo Zarate Delivers A Baby Girl