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When the days are long and blend seamlessly into night is when I think back to times long ago. This evening, on the edge of the holiday season I looked back to Lark Creek Inn, where I worked when I was a noob…yes, I was there at one time.

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With all the extra work over the last few months I found that I kept thinking about comfort foods, which shouldn’t come as any surprise figuring that I am a chef. The one thing that was hard was when I was in my office, all 110 degrees f of it, thinking of these foods was like, well…Hell. Yes I was sweating like stuck pig (there is no A/C or ventilation in my current office) so one could liken it to Hell, but it wasn’t the heat that I am referring to.

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Drum roll please…the “new” Porto Vista hotel site is now live! This is a momentous occasion, one that is coinciding with the 1 year anniversary of the Glass Door restaurant. After months of long hours, 7 day weeks and construction dust, it’s almost done and we are ready to lift the veil.

http://PortoVistaSD.com

and the “new” Glass Door section is here,

Glass Door restaurant San Diego

Glass Door’s new menu’s are here.

Breakfast

Brunch

Lunch

Dinner

There are still some images to be uploaded, some content to be massaged and created along with some general site tweaks, but for the most part the site is done. So please, dig around the new site and hit me up with your comments. If you see something that is broken of does not make sense, post a comment or drop me a line.

Now that this is done I can get back to cooking…C ya soon!

chefRob

…they are about to get a whole lot crazier, for me anyway. Before I start going back to posting recipes on the blog (I have the time now to do this) I just wanted to take a few minutes and try and get everyone up to date on what is going on with the hotel and the restaurant.

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So this is NOT about things that live under your bed, nor things that make weird noises in the night. It is though about change, and change is good no matter what form it takes.

The changes are, new Sous chef, new restaurant logo, new menu…in that order.

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OK…so I will probably get in trouble for this one, but…I could hold back no longer. Since we opened the Glass Door the Porto Vista hotel (where the restaurant is located) has been in some state of construction. Much to my relief, that seems to be winding down. We have been working 15+ days to keep up with the increase in business and to nail down some grueling photo shoots for the new site. I am really relieved that this is now passed and I can go back and focus on the restaurant and getting the new menu out.

I am also excited that the Porto Vista is now coming into it’s own and that the site is close to being launched (and that a photo of me is included). The new URL will be PortoVistaSD.com…keep an eye on it, for now it is not resolving but will very soon.

Off to the bay area for a couple of days of sleep and dim sum before comic-con…hope this finds you all well.

Cheers,

chefRob

OK, so I really can not believe that last week was the anniversary of our the restaurant’s opening phase, so technically our one year anniversary. On or around July 7th of last year we opened for breakfast, with a restaurant that was barely finished and a hotel that was still under construction. The big celebration comes in late August with the anniversary of the dinner menu implementation but I thought we should mark the occasion with some props, kudos and some information on what the last year has been like.

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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!

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