New restaurant openings in San Diego
Valentina Founder Brings Romantic Wine Bar to Solana Seashore
Restaurateur Mario Guerra could not discover a date night time spot charming sufficient to woo his spouse in North County. So he created his personal: Valentina, a comfortable wine bar and bistro in Leucadia. Now Guerra, which can also be behind native darlings like Moto Deli and Nook Pizza, is wooing with a romantic new spot. Vale Bodega opens on South Cedros Avenue in Solana Seashore this March.
Guerra describes the intimate, candlelit area as a “mini Valentina.” Vale Bodega shares its huge sister’s concentrate on conventional northern Spanish wines and tapas, providing a considerate, rotating wine listing curated by two sommeliers, Ricardo Zarate Jr. and Todd Henderson, who’re additionally companions within the enterprise. Friends stopping by for a drink will obtain a wine lesson from the sommeliers and employees.
With a extra restricted delicacies than Valentina, Vale Bodega’s menu will concentrate on small plates to share, resembling canned fish and toast. Guerra recommends a Spanish basic: toasted, crusty white bread topped with a tomato cream and slices of Iberian ham cured for three or four years in Spain. Guests may strive gambas al ajillo (shrimp cooked in olive oil with garlic and chili) and Galician-style octopus, octopus and child potatoes in a mix of olive oil, paprika and salt, that are historically eaten with chopsticks within the tapas bars.
New meals truck gives Japanese-Mexican menu in Valley Heart
You have in all probability by no means had sushi like this. Husband and spouse staff Oscar Espinoza and Verónica Félix infuse Japanese dishes like teriyaki bowls with Mexican flavors from their new meals truck, Mr. Mexicali Roll. The Mexico Metropolis roll, for instance, has the acquainted rice and seaweed base of sushi, however as an alternative of fish, you will discover beef, cream cheese, and avocado. It’s topped with jalapeños, jalapeño cream sauce, eel sauce and sesame seeds and fried. (Actually, seven of the truck’s 10 buns are fried, and there’s no uncooked fish on the menu.)
Félix owned the same meals truck, referred to as Mr. Teriyaki, in Mexicali for 5 years, earlier than she and Espinoza determined to carry the idea to San Diego beneath a brand new title. Do you wish to strive her revolutionary model of sushi? Espinoza recommends his namesake Mr. Mexicali, a fried bun stuffed with shrimp, beef, cream cheese, Monterey cheese, avocado and yellow pepper and drizzled with jalapeno cream sauce. As an appetizer, she orders the cream cheese chiles, fried yellow peppers filled with cream cheese and shrimp and topped with chipotle sauce. She will discover them on the truck location in Valley Heart (27936 Valley Heart Highway) Tuesday by way of Saturday. There’s some seating for outside eating, or you’ll be able to take your meals to go.
New ramen place opens in OB from the house owners of The Joint
The house owners of OB’s The Joint lately opened their newest enterprise: a ramen store on Newport Ave, only a few doorways down.
“I despatched my sushi boss from [The Joint] and his accomplice, chef Jeff Shaefer, to Osaka to take a one-on-one ramen class with grasp ramen chef Rikisa Miyajima, proprietor of the oldest ramen college in Japan,” says The Bowl co-owner Mike Lowe of the brand new menu. The Bowl, which showcases ramens they labored on with Miyajima-San, options do-it-yourself Kanto-style broth that’s lighter than tonkotsu with shoyu broth and requires simmering for 16 hours.
Chef Nate Cadspa (who beforehand held positions at Underbelly, Yokohama and Animae) will oversee its menu, which incorporates miso, tan tan, shoyu and vegan ramens; karaage; handmade gyozas; and basic variations like a burger with white American cheese and shishito aioli; okonomi fries (that means “nonetheless you want”); matcha tiramisu; and Japanese-style affogato.
The Bowl will probably be open day by day from four:20 to 9:00 pm with completely happy hour from four:20 to six:00 pm throughout the week and Sapporo energy hour from four:20 to five:20 pm with pints of Sapporo for $ 2.50.
San Diego Restaurant Information and Eating Occasions
El Chingon at Gaslamp is providing a three-course tequila pairing dinner on Thursday, January 25. The meal, the primary in a sequence of cocktail dinners on the Mexican restaurant, includes a secret menu paired with spirits from Cazadores Tequila.
San Diego Mission Bay Resort is internet hosting a four-course pairing dinner on Friday, January 26, with drinks from Napa Valley’s Copper Cane Wines and Provisions. Govt chef Roy Hendrickson will put together dishes resembling a wood-roasted rooster with mushroom and potato ragout, served alongside a Bell Glos Dairyman pinot noir.
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