Deckman’s North, chef Drew Deckman’s 18-month-old North Park restaurant, introduced a prix-fixe weekday lunch service on Monday.
The three-course, $49 Business Lunch service is offered from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. Reservations are available but walk-ins are welcome. The menu offers multiple options for each course of the prix-fixe menu, and there’s also a menu of a la carte items.
“Lunch in our neighborhood should feel generous, grounded, and easy to say ‘yes’ to,” Deckman said. “This is a set menu with real choice—built around live fire touches, Baja oysters, and the best of what our local growers and fisherpeople are bringing in right now.”
The Business Lunch menu highlights winter produce, coastal seafood and comfort-forward staples. There’s also a selection of Baja and Santa Barbara wines and agave-forward cocktails.
Starters on the three-course menu include a winter greens/roasted beet salad, smoked carrot and ginger soup and roasted oysters. Entrées include rockfish with cauliflower purée and roasted vegetables, herbed pork loin with Swiss chard and fingerling potatoes, and San Diego County-grown vegetables with quinoa and charred scallion vinaigrette. The third course offers a daily dessert or house ice cream.
A la carte items include Baja oysters, Black Hat Bakery sourdough, a daily ceviche selection and the Carter Country Regenerative Beef cheeseburger with seaweed aioli and beef tallow fries.
Deckman’s North is at 3131 University Ave., San Diego. 619-735-3761, the3131.com.
Katsuya Ko is a new Pan-Asian restaurant at the Westfield UTC shopping center. (Katsuya)
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Dutch Bros. Coffee’s drive-through coffee shop specializes in coffee drinks, cold and hot. (Dutch Bros. Coffee)
Dutch Bros. hosting Feeding San Diego fund drive: Dutch Bros. Coffee, the drive-through beverage chain offering coffee, tea, smoothies, chai, cocoa and other drinks, will raise money for Feeding San Diego on Friday. Through the company’s Dutch Luv’ Day of Giving, $1 from every drink sold that day at its five San Diego County locations will be donated to Feeding San Diego, which provides hunger relief and food rescue services to the region. Dutch Bros. has locations in Chula Vista, El Cajon, Escondido, Vista and Oceanside. dutchbros.com
An artist’s rendering of the future exterior of Saya Brasserie, opening later this year in the Gaslamp Quarter. (Saya Brasserie)
Saya Brasserie heads downtown: Saya Brasserie, a Dubai-based cafe and dining concept with five international locations, will open its first U.S. location in the former Gaslamp Fish House location at 4111 Broadway in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter. Saya serves American-style breakfast, specialty coffees, lunch and dinner. The lease was negotiated by Location Matters’ agents Mike Spilky and Hannah Sierpina. 4111 Broadway, San Diego. instagram.com/sayabrasseriesd
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Salt & Straw, a gourmet ice cream chain based in Portland, Ore., will open a new location this spring in Coronado. (Salt & Straw)
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Seen here is a selection of fresh-from-the-oven PopUp Bagels, among them plain, poppy, salt, sesame and everything. (Alexander Stein)
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