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Since the Kettner Exchange restaurant opened in Little Italy in 2014, chef Brian Redzikowski has earned himself a national reputation. In 2016, he was invited to cook at James Beard House in New York. In June 2019, he and Kettner boss Matthew Spencer won the coveted Michelin Bib Food Award. Three months later, Redzikowski won the “King of Pork” in his own way in the 2019 Grand Cochon National Competition.
As the corporate executive chef of Spencer's SDCM Restaurant Group, Redzikowski has also helped to open more culinary concepts in recent years, including gourmet doughnut brands, poke shops and tiki bars. But since the pandemic began, he has been focusing on designing two new SDCM properties menus that go beyond the progressive American cuisine with French and Asian influence that Redzikowski has always focused on.
In October 2020, SDCM opened the all-day European-style cafe The Waverly in the former Rimel's Rotisserie space in Cardiff. In August of this year, it opened Camino Riviera in the former El Camino space in Little Italy, a Mexican restaurant, bar and nightclub inspired by the Yucatan Peninsula. This is the taste of both:
Concept: Redzikowski has no experience in creating Mexican food, but when Spencer and El Camino owner Mauricio Couturier teamed up to create a new vision for the Little Italy space, the chef wanted to give it a try. In order to distinguish this restaurant from other Mexican restaurants in San Diego, Redzikowski thought of wood-based and seafood-centric cuisine from the Mexican Riviera. He flew to Tulum, Mexico, and ate several times at the famous Yucatan restaurant ARCA and other places. He also explored the cuisine of other coastal cities, including La Paz and Cabo San Lucas. The result is a mixed menu of traditional Mexican and Central American dishes, such as birria, salpicón, aguachile, and anticuchos, with whimsical and unexpected American flavors. "Camino is going all out now," Redzikowski said of the menu. "This is the best food in our restaurant right now."
Atmosphere: This 170-seat indoor and outdoor restaurant and bar offers live music on weekend evenings. The experiential decoration full of atmosphere gives the feeling of a wooden house, with walls and ceilings of bamboo and branches, wooden tables, wicker chairs and rotating disco balls. The background music is a popular song from the 1980s, and the bar serves Michelada, wine and 10 not-so-sweet Latin cocktails developed by bar managers Eric Johnson and Leigh Russ. The service is friendly and relaxed.
Tacos: To appease Spencer's passion for tacos, Redzikowski created this Instagram-friendly $14 dish. This is a tempura fried sea bass fillet, topped with homemade chili sauce on street-sized tortillas, and topped with edible gold leaf. The fish melts in your mouth, with a surprise taste of bitter orange.
7X Wagyu Beef Salpicón “Gordita Crunch: This dish is named after Taco Bell’s flatbread-wrapped hard-shell tacos. This dish upgrades Salpicón’s Latin cold beef salad dish to salted pastrami style wagyu beef, and Served with "chiu chow" hot vegetable sauce. It is served on Redzikowski's homemade Cantonese buns with cheese and hard tortillas on top. It is tender and crispy, fragrant and creamy, spicy and fun to eat. It is also a restaurant Best-selling products.
Brentwood Corn Ice Cream: Don’t miss this eye-opening sweet corn ice cream dessert, which is shaped into a corn ear shape, packed in real corn husks, and served with crunchy toasted corn flakes. Rice flower and caramel corn. Serve two or more. 14 dollars.
Also worth a try: Girl & Dug Farms Squashini Pie-fresh pumpkin with avocado, onion, basil and Cotija cheese, and Aji Amarillo pepper on grilled tortillas-simple, delicate, tender and delicious. 12 dollars. Creamy yucca is the savory flavor of French fries and dipping sauce. Scoop the cream with oversized corn flakes, and heat the yucca dipping sauce in a rich frying pan with caramel Parmesan cheese on top. 12 dollars. Sonoma Lamb Shoulder Roast is a hearty, shareable homemade taco plate that contains fork tenders, marinated lamb, tortillas, vegetables, and is served with crispy tail chili aioli and salsa. 30 dollars.
Camino Rivieria, 2400 India St., San Diego. (619) 684-3881. caminoriviera.com.
Concept: When SDCM took over the rotisserie in Cardiff Shopping Center last year, Redzikowski said it didn't feel right for Asian restaurants. With its sea view and casual indoor and outdoor environment, it seems more suitable for a Spanish-Italian style all-weather sidewalk cafe. Redzikowski was brought up on Long Island by his parents of European descent. He said that the Mediterranean menu he created from his childhood memories quickly merged, and 99% of the dishes have remained the same since opening. The menu includes several different Kettner Exchange dishes, such as duck meatballs and pig mike buns, as well as a wider range of seafood, grilled meats, salads and shared plates.
Atmosphere: The window walls of this 162-seat restaurant can be opened to capture the sea breeze, with island-style decoration and retro Art Deco style. The bar manager Eric Johnson and Leigh Lacap have prepared 13 sunny cocktails, most of which are light, refreshing, citrus and sparkling wines. They have made some changes to the old classics and provided young diners with a large number of non-alcoholic cocktails. choose. Camino is dark, atmospheric and adult-oriented, while The Waverly is bright and family-friendly.
Gioia burrata "donuts": Redzikowski created an appetizer of fried salty donut holes made with burrata cheese batter, topped with melt-in-mouth San Daniele ham, placed on a tomato fondue covered with basil leaves edible. 15 dollars.
Roasted baby carrots: Farm-fresh carrots are soaked in homemade carrot vinaigrette and softened, then lightly roasted in Waverly, topped with avocado, pea tendril, sunflower sprouts, melted Humboldt mist cheese and plenty of cumin . 14 dollars.
Hamachi ceviche: Pickled white fish on avocado slices, topped with crunchy radish, coriander, red onion, pea tendril, homemade grilled shrimp chips and rich yuzu vinaigrette. One bite perfectly blends various flavors, textures and temperatures. 21 dollars.
It's also worth a try: the rich and soft sea bass "en papillote" is steamed in a bag, cut open by the diners, poured on Carolina golden rice, and topped with white beer. 39 dollars. The brown butter grilled scallops are large, served with rice, caracalla oranges and croutons. 19 dollars. Kettner Exchange's famous salted caramel butterscotch pudding is also available here and Camino Riviera. 10 USD.
The Waverly, 2005 San Elijo Drive, Cardiff. (760) 230-1682. thewaverly.com
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