Gen 7 Fall Release Party Gen 7 Wines presented its third annual Fall Release Party in Rancho Santa Fe to celebrate the bounty of harvest with Gen 7’s newest releases paired with authentic German cuisine. Gen 7’s history dates back to the 1830s when a young Frenchman, Theophile Vaché, left his family and country to…
Café Japengo: Sublime Staying Power If a restaurant is going to take up prime real estate at La Jolla’s Hyatt-adjacent Aventine dining complex, it needs to have the goods to keep those who live and work in area coming back for more. Such is what makes Café Japengo a gem in The Jewel. The combination…
1500 Ocean Over the past few years, a revolving cast of short-lived chefs have manned the kitchen at the Hotel Del Coronado’s fine dining enclave, 1500 Ocean. If there’s justice in the world, newly appointed chef de cuisine Meredith Manee will stick. A veteran toque with 16 years of resort experience gleaned across the nation,…
Sirena Myriad Latin cultures (Chilean, Peruvian, Mexican) converge at the corner of Columbia and Fir with the arrival of Sirena, a stylish new seafood eatery in Little Italy. From an open kitchen emerges a plethora of artfully plated dishes almost too pretty to eat, yet too vibrantly flavorful to resist. An aggressively citrus-based uni leche…