Take the Bait Seafood Bar, a brand new restaurant providing a various menu of domestically caught seafood, salads and flatbreads, opens right this moment in Kearny Mesa.
The menu options entire octopus, seafood towers, seafood boils for 2, a uncooked bar, ceviches, a tropical fish & chips dish and seafood-topped flatbreads. There are additionally veggie, hen and steak skillet meals. The bar serves beers, wine, cocktails, micheladas and flights of margaritas, mojitos and mimosas. The restaurant provides a contented hour from 4 to six p.m. and DJs will spin reggae music.
Take the Bait is the most recent restaurant from the San Diego funding agency of Oceanic Enterprises, which additionally operates the La Barca, Birdseye, Martinis San Diego, Star Bar and Mikami Bar & Revolving Sushi eating places. Take the Bait is at 7319 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego. Go to takethebaitsd.com
Coconut Pistachio Kanafee at Toasted Gastrobrunch + Dinner in Oceanside.
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Toasted takes over Carte Blanche area in Oceanside
Toasted Gastrobrunch + Dinner has taken over the previous Carte Blanche Bistro & Bar restaurant area in Oceanside.
Based in Carlsbad in 2019 by Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza chain proprietor Sami Ladeki, Toasted began out as a boozy brunch idea named Toast. Ladeki closed the Carlsbad location just lately to take over the previous Carte Blanche area in Oceanside and has expanded the Toasted idea to incorporate a full dinner menu developed by Sammy’s company chef Alfie Szeprethy.
The Toasted brunch menu options objects from the unique Carlsbad location, resembling coconut pistachio kanafee with orange blossom syrup, brisket hash, stuffed French toast and chilaquiles. The dinner menu contains some standard dishes from Sammy’s menu, together with the chopped hen salad, mini duck tacos and pizzas, in addition to new dishes which are lighter and have a extra Mediterranean affect. New choices embody a braised lamb shank entrée, lobster orzotto and a shareable octopus plate.
Hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day, with brunch served from 8 a.m. to three p.m., completely happy hour within the afternoons from 3 to six p.m. and dinner service from 6 to 9 p.m., at 339 North Cleveland St., Oceanside. Go to toastedgastrobrunch.com
Meals and cocktails at new Lime within the Coconut in Chula Vista.
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Lime within the Coconut opens in Chula Vista
Lime within the Coconut and the X speakeasy opened in downtown Chula Vista late final month The restaurant is a tropical-themed tiki bar providing dishes impressed by the cuisines of Hawaii, the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan and the Caribbean.
Government chef Jeremy Galapon’s menu contains noodle dishes, bowls, sandwiches, salads, entrees and snacks. The cocktail menu, developed by Snake Oil Cocktail Co., makes a speciality of rum-based drinks. X, as in X Marks the Spot, is a tiki speakeasy on the identical property however accessed by a distinct door. It has its personal cocktail menu with drinks designed by Snake Oil, together with the drink Fourth Time’s a Appeal, which was the 2021 Tiki Oasis convention-winning cocktail created by Snake Oil mixologist Irving Gonzalez.
Owned by Kevin Rhodes and Christianne Penunuri, who additionally personal Groundswell Brewing only a few doorways away, Lime within the Coconut is at 248 Third Ave., Chula Vista. It’s open Wednesdays by Saturdays for dinner, with lunch service on weekends and reside leisure on Sundays. Go to limexcoconut.com
The inside of Consortium Holdings’ new Izakaya Underbelly at UC San Diego.
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Underbelly opens at UCSD
A yr after Consortium Holdings introduced plans to transform its former Soda and Swine location at UC San Diego into an Italian restaurant, the corporate has modified course and as an alternative reopened the campus constructing on Eucalyptus Grove Lane as an Izakaya Underbelly.
The brand new indoor-outdoor restaurant serves the identical ramen dishes and steamed bao buns discovered at CH’s different Underbelly places in Little Italy and North Park. However the brand new UCSD outlet additionally serves katsu and egg salad sandwiches, onigiri (rice balls) and salads, in addition to Underbelly cocktails. The brand new location at 105 Eucalyptus Grove Lane is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day. Name (619) 629-0676 or go to godblessunderbelly.com.
A bartender mixes a drink at El Dorado Cocktail Lounge in East Village.
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El Dorado modifications palms
El Dorado Cocktail Lounge, which brothers Nathan, Marshall and Matthew Stanton opened with their lifelong good friend Ryan Kurtz in East Village 14 years in the past, has been offered to the Pouring With a Coronary heart hospitality group.
El Dorado was one of many metropolis’s first trendy mixology targeted cocktail lounges when it opened in 2008. Its new house owners plan to maintain many of the unique workers and can refresh the area however plan to honor the historical past and heritage of the bar at Broadway and eleventh Avenue. Pouring With a Coronary heart has owned Seven Grand neighborhood bar in North Park since 2012. The Los Angeles-based firm owns greater than 25 bars in California, Colorado and Texas.
“There’s a motion in San Diego to safe the way forward for the institutions that formed its culinary, cocktail, consuming scene and the distinctive neighborhood tradition of this metropolis,” Peter Stanislaus, chief growth officer of Pouring With Coronary heart, stated in an announcement. “That is the pillar that Pouring With Coronary heart was constructed on and couldn’t be extra according to our mission as a hospitality group, it’s why we’re so excited to contribute to this effort with El Dorado, and resurrect the fond reminiscences individuals have from nights spent there.”
El Dorado will quickly shut in mid-January for a weeklong refresh, throughout which the bar will transition away from the membership/DJ vibe to embrace a extra timeless cocktail expertise. Go to pouringwithheart.com.
To rejoice its thirtieth anniversary on Tuesday, La Jolla-based Cottage eating places will reinstate for sooner or later solely its unique 1992 menu (with the unique costs) at each places. Additionally, to honor its surfing-inspired roots, surfboard shaper Rusty Preisendorfer of Rusty Surfboards and Massive Wave professional surfer Jojo Roper will raffle off some customized, ‘90s-style surfboards in an internet sale. Proceeds from the raffle and a portion of proceeds from the Dec. 6 meals gross sales will profit Windansea Surf Membership’s annual “Day on the Seaside” for kids with disabilities. 7702 Fay Ave., La Jolla, and 127 N. El Camino Actual, Encinitas. Go to cottagelajolla.com
Seabird Resort provides eating, canine specials
The Shore Room at Oceanside’s Seabird Resort is now providing Vinyl & Vines, a wine-tasting occasion with native DJs from 5 to eight p.m. Wednesdays. And from 4 to 7 p.m. Fridays, the Shore Room is internet hosting a “yappy hour,” the place canine are welcome to get pleasure from a particular pet deal with menu to accompany their house owners’ Tito’s vodka cocktails. For each cocktail bought, $1 might be donated to Surfers for Strays, a nonprofit that helps stray animals in Mexico. 101 Mission Ave., Oceanside. (760) 512-3798. theseabirdresort.com
Mister A’s rolls out lunch, brunch
The newly renovated and reopened Mister A’s restaurant in Bankers Hill has reintroduced Friday lunch and Sunday brunch service. From 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fridays, a menu of recent and basic dishes is now being supplied, together with king oyster mushroom fritto, wild caught salmon Wellington and home mac ‘n’ cheese. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays, the brunch service is constructed round chef Amy Simpson’s pastry program, with 4 to 5 distinctive French-inspired pastries every week, resembling quince Danish, French onion galette and croissants. She’s additionally making seasonal doughnuts every month. 2550 Fifth Ave.,twelfth flooring, San Diego. (619) 239-1377. asrestaurant.com
Sandpiper internet hosting Chef’s Desk dinner
Marty Fay, the brand new govt chef of Sandpiper Wooden Fired Grill & Oysters, will host a chef’s desk dinner subsequent week that includes a six-course menu paired with wines curated by resident superior sommelier Evan Vallee. Dishes will embody Hokkaido scallop crudo, fromage blanc agnolotti, Mary duck breast, lamb sausage and chop and French cheesecake. Tickets are $165. 6:30 p.m. Thursday. 2259 Avenida De La Playa, La Jolla. exploretock.com/sandpiper/event/375596/chefs-table
Draft launches weekend brunch
Draft at Belmont Park is now providing brunch service from 9 a.m. to three p.m. Saturdays and Sundays to enrich its satellite tv for pc broadcasts of fall NFL and faculty soccer video games. Among the featured dishes are breakfast grilled cheese sandwich, banana bread French toast, spiced pumpkin pancakes, smoked salmon BLT and fried hen & biscuit. Brunch drinks embody Baja Vida bloody marys, micheladas, mimosas and Irish espresso. 3105 Ocean Entrance Stroll, San Diego. (858) 228-9305. draftsandiego.com
Kragen writes about eating places for the San Diego Union-Tribune. E-mail her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.
