Building Studio Becerra
& a gourment hot dog sidewalk party.
For most of my career, I helped build other people’s spaces.
I built menus, kitchens, openings, concepts, stories. I spent years inside some of New York City’s restaurants learning not only how people like to eat, but how spaces feel and how each must work together.
And now I’m opening my own restaurant.
Something slower. Something more layered. Something that could hold research, food, preservation, storytelling, and history all at once. Something that as a chance of survival becuase of it many ways to garnish revue. Any restarrateur know how difficult is to make it work in NYC becuase the rent is so extreme.
That dream became Studio Becerra.
A café.
A pantry line.
A food research studio.
Each part feeding the other.
I want to study things deeply. I want to document them. Cook with them. Share them. Protect them.
The truth is, opening a space like this independently in New York City is not easy. Especially as someone who does not come from money, and who built a career piece by piece through restaurant work, food styling, consulting, media, and endless hours inside kitchens.
So I decided to do something that honestly feels both terrifying and beautiful:
Not because Kickstarter alone builds the entire dream. It doesn’t. But because it creates the first real foundation. A first public step. A way for the community that has followed my work for years to say: yes, we want this to exist too.
The campaign helps fund the first implementation of Studio Becerra:
small production runs,
research materials,
community dinners,
seasonal journals,
equipment,
and the beginning stages of a physical home.
One of the first public moments for Studio Becerra was something called 100 Omelettes. For three straight hours, I made omelettes continuously.
It was inspired by an old moment from Julia Child cooking omelettes, in that episode “Omelette Show” from The French Chef (22:23 in the video) she sets out to make 300 omelettes for a party.
If you’ve followed my work for years, thank you.
And if you’d like to support the Kickstarter, whether by pledging, reposting, sharing it with a friend, or simply following along, it genuinely means the world to me.
Kickstarter is really about building something together. And while no one loves asking for money, or being asked for it, this feels bigger than that to me. It’s about seeing what can happen when a community comes together around an idea they believe should exist.
We are hosting one last fundraising event this coming Thursday May 14th.
Please RSVP
— Camille