When Sarah Penn, owner of longstanding Ravenna restaurant Pair, approached Janet Becerra about Becerra’s pop-up, Pancita, taking up residency in Penn’s restaurant, the chef almost turned down the offer. “No matter how many years of experience I have,” Becerra says, “as a woman and a woman of color, there’s always that feeling of imposter syndrome.”
In August, the duo announced that Pancita at Pair, the five-month residency of the modern Mexican concept, would be permanent — it’s now just called Pancita — demonstrating the success of the unconventional partnership and showing off an alternative model of restaurant transitions. Penn continues to own and run the restaurant, including a beverage
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