Archives for September 2008 | aGreatChef.com Blog

View from the Glass Door restaurant

By chefRob, on September 29th, 2008

29 Sept sunset from the kitchen of the Glass Door restaurant San Diego. What’s your view like this evening?

Our Products part 2 – Produce

By chefRob, on September 24th, 2008

As a chef, I have always tried to procure the best possible produce for the restaurants I have been in charge of. Back in the Blue Chalk/Steelhead brew days, I was lucky enough to meet Stuart Dickson, the farmer (at the time) at Stone Free Farm in Watsonville CA.

My experiences with Steelhead and [...]

Our Products Part 1 – Pork

By chefRob, on September 22nd, 2008

Now that I have a quick minute to catch my breath, I thought it would be a good time to begin the discussion on the products that the Glass Door uses. As a chef, I have for years beat the organic/sustainability/hormone free drums and am glad to see that the public is responding. We here [...]

Menu Update – 12 Sept 08

By chefRob, on September 12th, 2008

Beginning this evening, the Glass Door restaurant at the Porto Vista hotel is running our full menu! Excitement abounds in the kitchen as we are coming out of our training phase and we are now able to offer v1.0 of our dinner menu. What does this mean and why all the hoopla you ask…well here [...]

Think Green – Eat no Meat

By chefRob, on September 12th, 2008

I consider myself to be pretty green. I walk or ride my bike to work when I can, I reuse bags when I can and I have set the Glass Door restaurant up with corn based and recycled to go cups, containers and silverware. When I saw this article about the emissions coming from the [...]

100,000 page views milestone

By chefRob, on September 11th, 2008

So I suppose it was bound to happen. My website that I build (originally) to be my CV online has now had 100,000 + page views! This seemed like an unreachable goal not too long ago and now that it has happened I can focus on something else…like 500,000…

I would like to take [...]

Menu update – We have Desserts!

By chefRob, on September 6th, 2008

Things have been a bit slow around the hotel these days, with the holiday over and all but the kitchen has been buzzing! Getting closer to our goal of having our full dinner menu available, we have been offering our customers 4 of our house made desserts. As a chef I am very excited [...]