GUILDERLAND — Devin and Kaytrin Ziemann’s restaurant ideas and ambitions keep getting bigger.
The couple started small 11 years ago in Albany’s student neighborhood with Crave, a corner spot for burgers and frozen yogurt. They lived in an apartment upstairs. Two years later, and across the street, came The Cuckoo’s Nest, a destination for contemporary Southern fare that in turn hatched the pandemic-era The Nest, located a couple of blocks from Proctors in downtown Schenectady. (Crave and Cuckoo’s Nest have since closed.)
Two years ago, the Ziemanns turned a marble-lined former bank down the block from The Nest into the glamorous Milas Restaurant & Bar, complete with a giant vault door leading to a room for private dining, refined Mediterranean food and one of the area’s best cocktail programs. Milas, sans apostrophe, is named after their daughter, Mila, now 4, and almost since it opened they have been quietly developing a restaurant named after their 8-year-old son, Calvin…