Ponto Lago, a new fine-dining restaurant at the Park Hyatt Aviara resort in Carlsbad, opened for dinner service on June 10.
Ponto Lago replaces the former Vivace restaurant, which closed during a $50 million, 18-month renovation at the resort that was completed in April. The dining concept under French-born executive chef Pierre Albaladejo and chef de cuisine Thomas Tuggle is global flavors mixed with inventive Baja California-inspired cuisine.
One feature of the new menu involves the chefs serving some dishes tableside. Diners can also create bespoke customized cocktails. Some of the features on the new menu, served from 5 to 9 p.m. daily, are Pacific Manila clams with green rice, quail with corn polenta and cherries, organic peri peri chicken with charred corn succotash, house-made chistorra sausage and daily roasted ducks, squab, rack of lamb and suckling pig. Entrée prices range from $24 to $72. Diners’ parking is validated.
Ponto Lago is at 7100 Aviara Resort Drive, Carlsbad. Visit parkhyattaviara.com/eat-drink/ponto-lago/.
Pacific Manila clams with green rice at Ponto Lago restaurant at the Park Hyatt Aviara resort in Carlsbad.
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Del Mar Social Club debuts
The Fairmont Grand Del Mar Resort has reimagined its spring pop-up event Fireside Lounge with a new name and location. Del Mar Social Club is another outdoor garden party event but on the resort’s front lawn, where guests can sip cocktails at communal tables, play lawn games, reserve a cabana or fire pit and, on July 3, watch a fireworks show.
Hours are 4 to 10 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, noon to 10 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays at 5300 Grand Del Mar Court, San Diego. Details at granddelmar.com.
Taste of Adams Avenue returns
The 20th annual Taste of Adams Avenue, a self-guided culinary tour of 39 businesses on Adams Avenue in University Heights, Normal Heights and Kensington, will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 25.
This year’s participants include restaurants, coffee houses, breweries, wine bars and other artisan food shops. Tickets are $40 in advance or $45 on the day of the event. Attendees can travel on foot, bike or by car, but complimentary trolley service will also be offered along Adams Avenue that day. For the full list of participants and tickets, visit tasteofadams.com.
Chilled tea drinks at R&B Tea at Otay Ranch Town Center in Chula Vista.
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R&B Tea opens in Chula Vista
R&B Tea, a Taiwan-born tea chain known for its boba tea drinks, opened a new location June 18 at Otay Ranch Town Center in Chula Vista.
R&B has nearly 1,000 locations worldwide and is planning to open at least 20 U.S. locations before the end of this year, beginning in California. R&B opened its first San Diego County location early last year on Convoy Street in Kearny Mesa. A third local location is planned at the Shoppes at Carlsbad mall.
The chain sources its oolong teas from Taiwan, Sri Lanka and China. For details and addresses, visit rbtea.us.
Cesarina restaurant chef Cesarina Mezzoni recently competed on “Chopped Next Gen.”
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Cesarina on ‘Chopped’ spinoff
Cesarina Mezzoni, the co-founder and head chef at Cesarina Restaurant in Point Loma, made her national television debut this month on “Chopped Next Gen,” a new spinoff of the Food Network “Chopped” competition series that’s now streaming on the Discovery Plus network. She didn’t win her episode but scored high points with the judges.
Meanwhile at home, Mezzoni has unveiled a new summer menu that includes one of her favorite pasta dishes, paccheri vodka and scampi, featuring house-made paccheri noodles with a creamy shrimp vodka sauce and wild-caught langostino lobster. Also featured on the new menu is bruschettone prosciutto e fichi, a summer bruschetta with fig, prosciutto, whipped ricotta and chestnut honey. Other new dishes include tagliata porcini, which is steak with mushrooms, and il pasticcio, a baked ‘nduja sausage and burrata dip with confit cherry tomatoes.
Cesarina is at 4161 Voltaire St. in San Diego. Visit cesarinarestaurant.com.
Paccheri vodka and scampi at Cesarina Restaurant in Point Loma.
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North Italia launches happy hour
North Italia restaurants in San Diego and Del Mar introduced on June 21 an all-day happy hour on Mondays that will run through Sept. 6. The happy hour features 12 new cocktails, including the San Diego weather-inspired 72 Degrees, created by North Italia bartender Daniel Malta, featuring Aviation gin, cucumber, grapefruit and lemon. It’s $10 on Mondays. For details, visit northitalia.com.
The 72 Degrees, a new locally inspired citrus cocktail being served this summer at North Italia locations in San Diego and Del Mar.
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Kragen writes about local restaurants for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.
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