Tobin James Wine Social – Rooftop @the Porto Vista hotel

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 Glass Door Voted Best Breakfast in San Diego 2009

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.

David Nelson picks the Glass Door as best breakfast in San Diego! [...]

Roof top deck opens!

All,

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, [...]

Dallas to San Diego – El Paso to Cali

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 [...]

Fox 5 spot, Chef Rob video

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 [...]

SOS Taste of the Nation ’09 – San Diego

San Diego’s SOS (Share our Strength) Taste of the Nation was yesterday, 3 May 09 in Balboa Park. Myself, Pete (F&B) and  Amanda (Kitchen) represented the Glass Door restaurant at this annual event. It was pulled off flawlessly by a team of dedicated volunteers and a few hundred hungry San Diegans who ponied up [...]

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