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Things that go bump in the night…

chefRob — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:16:56 +0000

So this is NOT about things that live under your bed, nor things that make weird noises in the night. It is though about change, and change is good no matter what form it takes.

The changes are, new Sous chef, new restaurant logo, new menu…in that order.

New Sous chef

So it [...]

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 [...]

Menu highlight – Roasted Jidori Chicken

chefRob — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:36:32 +0000

Menu highlights is a new feature that I am going to start doing on occasion. Highlighting items off our breakfast, lunch, dinner and small plates menu’s, offering you a bit more of a description that can be placed on our menu or that our server’s can remember. This is an opportunity lost to most [...]

Our Products Part 1 – Pork

chefRob — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:32:01 +0000

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

chefRob — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:42:26 +0000

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 [...]

Menu update – We have Desserts!

chefRob — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:20:47 +0000

Things have been a bit slow around the hotel these days, with the holiday over and all but the kitchen has been buzzing! Getting closer to our goal of having our full dinner menu available, we have been offering our customers 4 of our house made desserts. As a chef I am very excited [...]

Glass Door update – 9-2008

chefRob — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:56:02 +0000

After a busy weekend (Labor day) I find myself a s a chef reflecting back on the last couple of days. I was happy and quite surprised that we were sold out on Saturday night, and turned the dining room over 1.5 times. From what I could ascertain, most of our guests were locals, even [...]

Dinner at the Glass Door Restaurant

chefRob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:08:30 +0000

Well the time has come to start our dinner service, which begins in earnest this evening. We had a successful weekend running our brunch menu and our breakfast menu has been live for the past week. We have had alot of great compliments from both hotel guests and locals alike. My staff and myself [...]

Breakfast at the Glass Door restaurant

chefRob — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:20:57 +0000

Well it has been a long and winding road but finally, we the Glass Door restaurant is open. We are now open for breakfast, lunch & our small plates menus for hotel guests and the general public. I cannot begin to list all that my hat goes off to in helping build this restaurant [...]