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Back in the Day – New York

By chefRob, on March 14th, 2009

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

By chefRob, on February 8th, 2009

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

By chefRob, on November 15th, 2008

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 [...]

New ad for the Glass Door in 944 mag

By chefRob, on October 30th, 2008

Here is the first “peek” at our new ad for 944 magazine. I have to say that Draven did a great job, along with the crew over at 944 to come up with such a striking ad. I find that it portrays the restaurant in just the right light and offers those who have [...]

Our Products Part 1 – Pork

By chefRob, on September 22nd, 2008

Now that I have a quick minute to catch my breath, I thought it would be a good time to begin the discussion on the products that the Glass Door uses. As a chef, I have for years beat the organic/sustainability/hormone free drums and am glad to see that the public is responding. We here [...]

Menu Update – 12 Sept 08

By chefRob, on September 12th, 2008

Beginning this evening, the Glass Door restaurant at the Porto Vista hotel is running our full menu! Excitement abounds in the kitchen as we are coming out of our training phase and we are now able to offer v1.0 of our dinner menu. What does this mean and why all the hoopla you ask…well here [...]

100,000 page views milestone

By chefRob, on September 11th, 2008

So I suppose it was bound to happen. My website that I build (originally) to be my CV online has now had 100,000 + page views! This seemed like an unreachable goal not too long ago and now that it has happened I can focus on something else…like 500,000…

I would like to take [...]