Monday’s…I really don’t know what to say about them except that they are usually my day off. Sleeping in, doing laundry, and attempting to catch up on my “other” life are the goals for the day. After a day of wine tasting yesterday I awoke to a very busy day off. Opening day for baseball [...]
Black garlic…it seems that there is quite a buzz these days about this tasty yet exotic ingredient. I kinda stumbled on this when an editorial assistant sent me an email asking questions for an upcoming issue. I know, I know I should have been “in the know” but with the hotel nearing completion and our [...]
Who says it never rains here in San Diego? Working on a Sunday, I had to run down to the office from my 4th floor kitchen to finish up some paperwork for an extern I have from the Art Institute. The day started off a bit cloudy and as I was just about to leave [...]
So I have been wanting (and trying) to post this for a month or so, but with some great magazine write ups, it seems that my time to blog has, for now been curtailed. It is kinda funny that when one gets a bit stressed and busy you automatically think of comfort food…which may be [...]
So now it’s cold…I have been (in my mind) dreading this time of year since last year. The days are oh so short, the sun never seems to warm up the days and the nights and early mornings are chilly to say the least. As much as I love the heat of summer (and winter [...]
June in San Diego is…well June. A thing we all call “June Gloom” seems to settle in and makes this city, for the better part of the month resemble San Francisco in summertime, minus the chilly wind howling off the bay. Now this is not necessarily a bad thing, but everyone here (including myself) seems to question on a daily basis when the grey stuff will lift and we can start our summertime fun in the sun. Today was your stereotypical June day in San Diego, except for we were making the (horns please) world’s largest Caprese salad!
The Glass Door restaurant has made the top 10 for Best Hotel Restaurant in San Diego! With your help, we can be #1 (and I think we should be, IMHO). Please click the Best of image above and vote once a day for the Glass Door, we have just 5 days until the end of the poll!
4 June, or next Thursday I…well we are hosting winemaker Tobin James from Paso Robles on our roof for a wine social. 5 wines, 4 food pairings for $ 65 ++ and we will even throw in the view for free! Invite your friends as this is the only semi-private event on the roof for the summer…so come and enjoy our amazing Point Loma & downtown views with your friends and neighbors in Little Italy with us and Tobin. He might even sign a bottle or two for ya!
The Glass Door restaurant was the Critic’s pick for Best Breakfast in San Diego! I cannot tell everyone how happy that makes me as a chef and my staff that David Nelson picked us over the hundreds of other restaurants that serve breakfast.
Most of the time, a chef will overlook breakfast and solely focus on dinner, as it has the pizazz and the notoriety that so many chefs seek. When I was back in culinary school I was taught to make every meal, and every service period the best it can be, and I have tried to instill this into my staff like it was instilled into me. I am thrilled that David loved his food experience with us and I am striving to bring some new items and some old favorites to the Glass Door’s breakfast menu and for our summer rooftop brunch…oops, did I just leak that out?
So to David, thanks again and hope to see ya all soon.
Beginning tomorrow and running through Sunday night the Porto Vista hotel (where the Glass Door resides) will be opening our rooftop deck. This is the only rooftop venue in Little Italy and is the best rooftop venue in all of downtown San Diego.
The deck offers guests large cabanas to lounge around in, music to chill out to, a bar with beer, wine and cocktails and some snack platters from the award winning Glass Door restaurant. We think you’ll enjoy yourself so much that we will toss in the view for free…yes free! A pretty bold statement for a recession don’t ya think?
Hope to see you all soon and have a safe holiday weekend.
After sleeping on a very comfortable couch, we woke to get a early start on a long day of driving. I think we were both glad to bail EP, dinner was so so and we had no time for any sightseeing. So we hit the freeway prior to the morning rush and we are off.
It is amazing to me that it takes 1 entire day to get from Dallas to El Paso. It that same amount of time, we will pass through New Mexico (not really new and not really Mexico as the shirt says), Arizona and California before arriving back in San Diego.
So we, well the Glass Door which on this day included my GM, Greg Keebler and myself were proud and honored to represent the restaurant on San Diego’s local Fox affiliate, Fox 5. They just started a great program for restaurants called “Be our guests”.
Basically, we (Glass Door) offer a 100 USD gift certificate for 50 USD (not a bad deal) and Fox5 runs ads for a week promoting our offer. With your TV appearance, you then sell your offer, we had 150 certificates to the first people who click a link and purchased one online beginning at 8am PDT.
Advertising+live demo+100 for 50=a lucky 150 people.
Enjoy and hope to see you all soon here at the restaurant. I was up at 4 am so now it’s time for a nap .
PS – catching up on all the unfinished posts…restaurant has been busy.
chefRob
For over 20 years I have been traveling and learning the world's cuisines while working in some pretty exotic (and some not so pretty) locations. Come and explore the world, its people and their food with me.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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