Caboco
Preen, Inc.
YEAR
2021
LOCATION
Los Angeles, CA, United States
TYPE
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Caboco is the first international outpost for famed São Paolo chef Rodrigo Oliviera. Located in the Arts District in DTLA, Caboco is a lively, playful staccato arena with patterned tiles, eye-catching murals, open kitchen and social seating.
Caboco captures the innate warmth and energy of Brazil within a modernist language, equally native to and beloved by California. It is a tale of two forms, and the language that is created by presence and absence, belly and void.
It is the gentleness of the language, punctuated with the patterned innervation of colored modernist tiles, a staccato upbeat of color and vibration. The space is organized into open kitchen and inward facing, side-by-side fixed tables and seating.
It is highly social. Fare is shared over high design, low-tech wood particle tables creating an arena of food experienced through connection to chef and to each other.
Caboco is in part experienced as a warm white, amber lit space. Orange and yellow shadows flit from floating overhead art transparencies, throwing color onto dishes and faces, matching the chatter of the room with a slowly changing, moving sway of time suspended.
From the street, one sees through a patio of lights and people, layers of looking into and through color into another moire of life, framed with the story of it in a massive mural by Speto, another powerful voice of the Brazilian art class.
Designed to up-level energies for all of us, Caboco relays a story unique to Brazil and as of yet untold in the US. It is the creative rise of a generation.