{"id":94147,"date":"2025-12-14T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/94147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:46:33","slug":"lilo-review-how-a-carlsbad-stunner-earned-a-michelin-star-just-10-weeks-after-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/94147\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilo Review: How a Carlsbad Stunner Earned a Michelin Star Just 10 Weeks After Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Over the past five years, chef Eric Bost (formerly of <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2019\/3\/14\/18264811\/auburn-eric-bost-photos-inside-restaurant-melrose-fine-dining\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auburn<\/a> and Guy Savoy), along with his business partner John Resnick, has <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/maps\/best-restaurants-carlsbad-san-diego\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transformed Carlsbad into a bona fide dining destination<\/a>. Since decamping from Los Angeles in 2020, the chef has settled into the idyllic beachside community, running a pair of Michelin-starred restaurants, <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/2018\/12\/11\/18136357\/modern-french-restaurant-jeune-et-jolie-carlsbad-campfire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeune &amp; Jolie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/2025\/4\/17\/24410699\/lilo-san-diego-carlsbad-fine-dining-restaurant-eric-bost-john-resnick-opening-photos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lilo<\/a>, as well as more casual spots, <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/2016\/8\/24\/12614250\/campfire-north-county-carlsbad-hottest-restaurant-opening\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Campfire<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegomagazine.com\/food-drink\/wildland-restaurant-bakery-carlsbad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildland<\/a>. Lilo is Bost\u2019s most ambitious project to date. With only 22 seats and a winding menu of a dozen courses, it\u2019s an intimate culinary affair that clocks in at just under three hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">San Diego\u2019s laidback energy echoes inside Lilo\u2019s four walls. The horseshoe-shaped chef\u2019s counter gives every diner front row seats to the open kitchen, while a lo-fi sound system pumps out upbeat Gen X tunes like The Cure. Cooks deliver each course: spooning sauces, arranging garnishes, and engaging in as much or as little conversation as diners desire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Before dinner commences, settle in for a drink at all-day restaurant Wildland, which is attached to Lilo. The cocktail list boasts fun riffs on classics and dynamic clarified punches to get the evening started right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past five years, chef Eric Bost (formerly of Auburn and Guy Savoy), along with his business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5105,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-94147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-dining-report","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}