Mestre Ombrinho of New York City’s Capoeira Angola Quintal was recently honored with the Lower East Side Community Leadership Award, as covered by Lindsey Ellefson for the Lo-Down:
“I feel there’s lots of times people don’t get awards for their service and I’m lucky this time,” he said. “I’ve been doing this work for a long, long time.”
This story comes from the Queens Gazette of New York City, where Mario Espindola has named his Brazilian restaurant after the berimbau, the central instrument of capoeira. Unfortunately, the article leaves much to be desired and contains no actual information on the restaurant itself. For those interested in checking out Mario’s eatery, a Google search yielded this website, presumably for his restaurant, located in the West Village of Manhattan.
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