Peral to Open as a Mexico City-Inspired Taqueria and Café in Brooklyn

Peral, a new Mexican taqueria and café, is set to open in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on September 2, 2026. The restaurant will operate next door to Olmo at 105 Saratoga Avenue, near Decatur Street, as a collaboration between the Bed-Stuy restaurant and Mexico City cafe and bar Cicatriz.

Mexico City-Inspired Menu

Peral will operate as an all-day restaurant with a menu centered on tacos, many of which will feature guisados, while placing a strong emphasis on vegetarian and vegan options.

The menu will include corn- and flour-tortilla tacos such as a chile relleno taco with Oaxaca cheese, rib-eye tacos with jalapeño escabeche, chicken Milanesa with creamy guaca-salsa and matchstick potatoes, and goat birria served in a cheese-crusted flour tortilla.

Vegetarian offerings will include quelites made with seasonal braised wild greens, reflecting chef Scarlett Lindeman’s focus on the vegetable, mushroom, chile, wild green and flower traditions within Mexican cuisine.

Mexican Drinks and Desserts

The beverage program, overseen by Jake Lindeman, will feature Mexican-inspired drinks including the frozen Carajillo Peral made with sweet condensed milk, El Cuauhtémoc with aged Oaxaca rum, bourbon, vermouth and ancho chiles, and an El Verde michelada made with cucumber, serrano peppers, cilantro, fish sauce and beer.

Desserts will include pastel imposible, also known as chocoflan, a sweet quesadilla with guava paste and Oaxacan cheese, and champola, a Mérida-style sundae featuring roasted banana ice cream and cold corn tortilla-infused milk.

During daytime service, Peral will offer Intelligentsia coffee, teas, horchata cold brew, matcha lattes with hibiscus jelly, the Peral Fizz espresso tonic and the Arnoldo Palmero iced black tea with tepache. Pastries and tamales will be sourced from Sunnyside bakery Masa Madre.

Design and Opening Hours

Studio Woodman, the firm behind Olmo, designed the 1,200-square-foot space, which seats 55 people indoors. The restaurant features arched hallways, a skylight, plants, furniture by Tomo Objects and a takeout window.

Artist Alannah Farrell will extend Olmo’s existing elm-tree mural onto Peral’s exterior wall with imagery featuring a pear tree. The restaurant’s name, Peral, means “pear tree” in Spanish, while Olmo means “elm.”

Peral will initially serve coffee, pastries and tamales from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends. Dinner service will run from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. The team plans to add expanded breakfast and lunch services, including burritos, later.

The restaurant is led by Scarlett Lindeman and her brother Jake Lindeman of Cicatriz, chef Filipe Neves, the Olmo ownership team and Miguel Mendez, who serves as chef de cuisine at both restaurants.