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All good things must come to an end…bye bye Glass Door

chefRob — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:01:23 +0000

Seems like only yesterday that we were installing the hood for the kitchen, hammers pounding nails into drywall and saws ripping plywood. The hotel construction dust, trips to Chula Vista for the so-called “knock-off” tiffany style lamps, which are really from Morocco, menu revision after revision, banquet menu’s up the wazoo, daily lunch at the [...]

Back in the Day – Lark Creek Inn

chefRob — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:16:20 +0000

When the days are long and blend seamlessly into night is when I think back to times long ago. This evening, on the edge of the holiday season I looked back to Lark Creek Inn, where I worked when I was a noob…yes, I was there at one time.

One night back in [...]

World’s largest Caprese salad!

chefRob — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:08:23 +0000

June in San Diego is…well June. A thing we all call “June Gloom” seems to settle in and makes this city, for the better part of the month resemble San Francisco in summertime, minus the chilly wind howling off the bay. Now this is not necessarily a bad thing, but everyone here (including myself) [...]

The Glass Door Voted Best Breakfast in San Diego 2009

chefRob — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:28:20 +0000

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! [...]

Fox 5 spot, Chef Rob video

chefRob — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:26:30 +0000

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 [...]

Back in the Day – Stars SF

chefRob — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:17:02 +0000

Sunday’s…what would I ever do without them. Last night we were very busy in the restaurant. A party of 35 in the dining room (it seats 80 total) and our first non-holiday event on our rooftop kept the kitchen and FOH staff busy for most of the night. A 14+ hour day, and sleeping at [...]

Dallas to San Diego, Day 1

chefRob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:03:06 +0000

And so it goes…late Sunday night I found myself packed in the back of the biggest van I have ever seen, making my way from the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport to Steven’s house, whom I am helping drive is car back to San Diego from Dallas. Payment, 18 or so back issues of [...]

Back in the Day – New York

chefRob — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:29:26 +0000

It’s sometimes funny how things, memories seem to pop up in your head for no apparent reason. On a not-so-sunny day here in San Diego and in the midst of creating SOP’s (standard operating procedures) for the kitchen in my wine storage slash office my mind wandered a bit (a break?) and began thinking [...]

Brunch at the Glass Door restaurant

chefRob — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:12:34 +0000

My memories of brunch seem to be a bit…well, dim. This may come from growing up in the county of San Diego, with (back then) ZERO choices for brunch or waiting in astronomical lines in San Francisco and Chicago for sub par food and the typical turn and burn mentality of the servers, when [...]

We topped the list for Best New Restaurant in San Diego 2008

chefRob — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:56:40 +0000

The Glass Door restaurant, a top the Porto Vista hotel in Little Italy tops the list for Best New Restaurant opening in 2008 in San Diego in Living in Style magazine’s holiday issue. We, as a restaurant are proud of this achievement and hope that all of you who have walked through our doors continue [...]