Ryan Ratino will open Jônt in spring 2019.

Rey Lopez / Bresca

Bresca, the Icelandic-meets-French-meets-lots of vegetables restaurant on 14th Street, is getting a little sister. Chef Ryan Ratino is set to open the intimate Jônt in the spring inside the restaurant.

While the newly Michelin-starred Bresca got its name from the Spanish word for “honeycomb,” Jônt is inspired by the French word for “jaunt.” Explained Ratino in a statement, “This restaurant is about the journeys and the detours everyone and everything takes each day. … It is about our preparation as a team, our travels, and our hard work. It is also the journey of the ingredients present in our dishes: their landscape and the people that cultivated them.”

To that end, the menu is centered around ingredients that take some patience to make, including dry-aged meats, fermented produce, and miso. And dinner itself will be no hasty affair: The 18-seat chef’s counter menu will host experiences of 8-11 courses of globally-inspired dishes. Chefs will serve dishes directly to the diners, who face the kitchen at the counter. Dinners will be priced at $83-$97—around the same range as a dinner of $14-$28 medium plates at Bresca.

Patrons will also be able to dine at the so-called BAR- Jônt, a lounge space featuring a bar menu of “guilty pleasure” snacks, including “affordable” caviar service.

Ratino, an alum of Ripple in Cleveland Park and a RAMMY winner for Rising Culinary Star of the Year in 2017, will head up a team of Bresca colleagues at Jônt, including general manager Liz Howard and bar manager Will Patton. Like Bresca, Jônt will be completely carbon-neutral.

Jônt will serve up dinner at its chef’s counter Wednesdays-Saturdays via reservation. BAR- Jônt will be open Tuesdays-Sundays from 5 p.m.-2 a.m.