Park Cities-adjacent restaurant Casa Brasa has a little bit of everything. Steaks, seafood, sushi, chips and salsa: it leaps all over the place.
Maroma, the newest restaurant from the same group, could well be called Casa Brasa’s Greatest Hits. It shakes off all the extra frippery and focuses on Latin American seafood, the thing that its flashier sibling does best. It also serves a margarita from the owners’ Tex-Mex spot, Muchacho, and chef Omar Flores’ signature sheet-like tortilla chips and potent salsas.
Maroma’s dining room is a smaller, more casual version of the Casa Brasa concept. The same aesthetic—lots of complementary patterns and finishes, none of them exactly matching—is updated with tropical colors. But while Casa Brasa has a DJ booth, a sushi bar, and several private dining rooms, Maroma is on a human scale, with a modest bar and a sheltered patio. Look out for leather straps on the backs of chairs and booths, and a seahorse motif on the walls…