Secondary Market

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Barcelona’s bountiful Boqueria marketplace is the gastronomic heart of the city. Its stalls vend every sort of food imaginable, and the bars and kiosks that surround it serve a cuisine of skewers and fritters that could hardly be more fresh or more casual. Naming a restaurant after another city’s world-class gastronomic destination is a brazen maneuver, but the proprietors of a new restaurant in Chelsea have done just that.

A fast-moving parade of excellent chefs has passed through the kitchen door of Suba, Yann de Rochefort’s Lower East Side modern-Spanish spot. At Boqueria, Mr. de Rochefort has partnered with chef Seamus Mullen, who is fresh from a stint in Spain, to replicate the Barcelona marketplace’s winning formula in New York. It’s a noble attempt, at least, and the sleek new restaurant is crowded every night despite certain shortcomings in the execution.

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