Our 5 Year Anniversary is coming up!!  This is what we’ll be doing to celebrate, and we really hope you can join us!

Friday, May 31st – Sunday, June 2nd
5 for $55 5-Course Pairing Menu with your choice of beer or wine pairings (price is inclusive of food & beverages!)  Plus $5 Glasses of Champagne all weekend, any time!

On Saturday, June 1st, our official anniversary date, we’ll be throwing a party in the form of a Clam Bake.  From 12-5pm we’ll be outside grilling it up, and the restaurant will be open for casual seating and beverage service.  Our regular menu will then resume at 5pm so if you want to enjoy the clam bake, you need to come down during the day!

 5 for $55 PAIRING MENU
(choose from beer or wine pairings listed)

1
Oyster Shooter
with Rough Draft Brewing Weekday IPA & Grapefruit Jam
no additional alcohol is paired with this course

2
Spinach and Arugula Salad
orange segments, grilled sardine, and citrus vinaigrette
paired with Port Brewing Anniversary Ale (Strong Pale Ale/IPA) or Brander Wines Natalie Cuvee

3
Yellowtail
mole, raisins, banana puree, and greens
paired with Cismontane 3rd Anniversary Strong Belgian Ale or Ghost Pines Cabernet Sauvignon

4
Pork Belly
beets, beet greens, frisee, and apple chutney
paired with Stone Brewing 16th Anniversary Ale or Chacewater Winery Malbec

5
Peach Creamsicle
peaches, cream, and Chronic Cellars Spritz & Giggles sparkling wine
no additional alcohol is paired with this course

Also available all weekend long will be our Anniversary Beer Flight for just $10 any time, which will include the four beers listed above!  And, we had some super cool T-Shirts made by local printer Andy Loy of Extra Graphic, with graphic design courtesy of neighbor Clay Summers of Propoganda Creative.  They’ll be for sale for $15 if you’d like to own one!

Well, this is a very exciting time of the year for us here at the Rocket!  Our 5 Year Anniversary is coming up and we have some fun things planned for the weekend of 5/31-6/2 (June 1st being our official anniversary date.)  A few other events will be happening before then, and those are outlined below.  Just click on the active links for more detailed information about any events you are interested in, and please mark your calendars now so you don’t forget to stop by on June 1st for our special Anniversary Clam Bake!

Saturday, May 11th: Vegan Cooking Class with Chef Jenn

Sunday, May 12th: Mother’s Day Prix Fixe Menu

Thursday, May 16th: Grant & Roger Guest Bartending Night
Our good friends and neighbors Grant Ferrier and Roger Lewis of South Park will be guest bartending for us from 6-10pm, and each of them will be creating a special mixed drink featuring some of their favorite local ingredients.  Grant runs this farm in Fallbrook that we got our beautiful blood oranges from this spring, and Roger is a former restauranteur and current advocate for sustainable city planning and development. Grant and Roger will be mixing up several blood orange inspired drinks such as “martinis,” spritzers, a randy, and sangria.  Blood oranges are at the end of their season, so this will probably be your last chance to sample beverages made with these amazing little fruits!

Saturday, May 18th: North Park Festival of the Arts, 11am-6pm
Just a friendly reminder about this long-standing arts & music street fair!  Go, have fun, it’s your neighborhood!

Monday, May 27th: We will be CLOSED in observance of Memorial Day this year.

Thursday, May 30th: 30th on 30th will kick off our anniversary weekend with a cask-tapping of Rough Draft’s Weekday IPA with Grapefruit (brewed just for our special weekend!)  Guest Chef Rob Rubalcaba will prepare our food pairings for the night: Raw Ahi or Vegan Tostadas made with beans, sushi rice, wasabi-avocado, serrano, and sriracha topped with shredded cabbage and pico de gallo.

Friday, May 31st – Sunday, June 2nd: Sea Rocket Bistro 5 Year Anniversary Events!
We’ll be hosting a 5-hour long Clam Bake on Saturday, June 1st, a 5-Course Pairing Menu Friday through Sunday nights, and offering $5 Champagne all weekend long!  Can you see the theme??  ;-)  Our 5 for $55 Pairing Menu details will be announced next week on our blog, so check back here or on facebook for details and updates as this weekend approaches.

For those of you who like to stay in the know, or just love cool new technology…there’s a fun new up-to-the-moment way to be informed of goings on in your neighborhood called Breadcrumbs.  Check it out and download the app (for Android only so far) to follow Sea Rocket and get $2 Off any tapa during your next visit! And that’s not even the cool part- whenever you’re in the area of a place that you follow, you’ll get special offers and event reminders right to your phone so that you don’t miss out on what’s going on at your favorites spots! Click here for a quick video about how it works, or Like them on Facebook here.

Hello from the Rocket!  We hope you are having a wonderful April so far.  We are a bit quiet this month but rest assured we have a few things up our sleeves for the coming months, including a 100 Year Lynhurst Building block party in May, and an all-out 5-Year Sea Rocket Anniversary bash come June 1st!  Details will follow soon but for the meantime you can plan on a blowout birthday party in the style of a Clam Bake, some unique cask beer from one of our favorite local breweries (custom made just for us!) and a special celebratory pairing menu that we’ll run in the theme of our longevity.

But here are our nearer future happenings!  In honor of Earth Day (Sunday, April 21st), we will be showing some of the films from the documentary series Blue Planet and Frozen Planet for our Wednesday Night Movies on April 17th and 24th.  Showtime will be at 8pm now that it is getting darker so much later!

In other news, Dine Out for Life is happening on Thursday, April 25th.  Come spend your money at the Rocket and we will donate 25% of all sales for the night to help fight AIDS!

Have you been holding your breath for our next Cooking Class with Chef Jenn?  Well, you can exhale!  We’ll be hosting a “Quatros de Mayo” Cooking Class on, well, May 4th, from 3-6pm in the usual format.  Students break into small recipe groups and make the meal from scratch from start to finish, sitting down at the end of the instruction for a communal meal.  In keeping with the theme, this menu will be accompanied by a Michelada, which is included in the price of the class.  Click on the link above for more details and to register!

Happy Spring San Diego!  Our favorite news for this month is that we released our new Spring Menu last week!  Click here for some photos of our new dishes and here for a copy of our printed menu.  Our new Grilled Sardines are high on the list of our guests’ favorites so far!

Also exciting, our friend, neighbor, and cinematographer extraordinaire Nick Colombini, is working on a promotional video for us which will feature, as we do here at the bistro, our local sources – farmers, fishermen – highlighting our concept of local foods and our goal of connecting our guests to those who grow and harvest it.  This is a photo from yesterday’s visit to the New Roots Community Farm in City Heights to gather some footage- a beautifully developed, small area along 54th Sreet run by IRC Ssan Diego and tended to by refugees from around the world.  We currently get kale and some other veggies from them on a regular basis.

We celebrated the spring season recently with a Blood Orange Menu highlighting the delicious fruits of Miro Ranch Farm in Fallbrook.  Some of these dishes are now on our regular menu so come check them out while the season is in full swing!

Our Wednesday Night Movies continue with a slew of Leslie Nelson flicks.  Join us at or before 7pm to take advantage of these free showings plus bottle discounts every week!

Tonight (March 17th) we’ll be serving some St. Paddy’s Day specials, including last year’s popular corned swordfish, some Irish Nachos, and an all night long happy hour draft featuring the Mad River Brewing Extra Stout for just $3/pint!

An event we’re really looking forward to is a screening of the San Diego craft beer documentary “Suds County USA” by local filmmaker Sheldon Kaplan.  This will take place at the bistro on Thursday, March 28th at 7pm.  Meet the producer, and cheers the early San Diego brewers who struggled to make possible the wonderful explosion of craft beers we have today!

On Easter Sunday (March 31st this year) we will be doing something a little different than past years and offering a family-style share menu inspired by holidays on the family farms in Italy.  The menu is still being finalized but will serve 4-6 people…and you don’t even have to be with family to order it!  So get some friends together and make a reservation!

Heads up to April: We will be participating in the Dining Out for Life fundraiser this year.  25% of the total night’s net sales will be donated to fight AIDS.

Thank you to all of our friends and regulars for making what we do worth doing!  We hope to see you again soon.

Happy New Year!  There’s plenty of news from the Rocket right now, so here you go!

Thursday Flight Nights
We’ve started a new Thursday night promotion featuring our 4-beer tasting flights for just $8 (usually $12.)  Try any four of our draught beers (cask included!) in 4.5 ounce pours, served to you on our hand-crafted fish boards with the list of beers for your reference.  What a fun deal!  We’ve already had a great response to it.

Our January Movie Nights feature films by Mel Brooks.  This Wednesday is Blazing Saddles, at 7pm in the front room.

Thursday, January 17th we’re hosting a fundraiser for Expanding Your Horizons.  Help raise money for a great organization that introduces young women to the fields of math, science, technology & engineering via hands-on workshops at their annual conference.

This Sunday, January 20th we’ve created a special beer pairing menu to highlight Mother Earth Brew Co., located in Vista.  It will be a Blackout Beer Dinner as we’ve done a few times in the past, meaning the restaurant will be lit by candlelight only to recreate the wonderful mood we inadvertently faced back in September of 2011.  Learn more from our blog and then call us for reservations!

Wednesday, January 30th, we’ll be offering our monthly 30th on 30th pairing special.  Food and featured beer is to be determined but is always posted on the website here.

And a quick heads up to Superbowl Sunday, February 3rd!  We’ll have the BIG GAME on our BIG SCREEN in the front room, opening early at 3pm so everyone can get settled and get some brews in hand, and we’ll be offering house-made Pizzas & Pitchers (of craft beer) all night!

Winter, as it is embodied here in San Diego, has arrived.  And what a beautiful one it has been so far!  We are amazed to find ourselves in the midst of our 5th holiday season in business at Sea Rocket, and we have several upcoming events to help you celebrate in style!  Those, and other goings on, are listed below.  Please come raise a glass with us whenever you can!

Every Wednesday at 7pm
We continue our “Wine & Cheesy Movie Nights” in December with the following holiday-inspired features: December Wednesday Night Movies

Thursday, Dec. 13th at 6pm
We’ll be hosting our annual Sea Rocket Bistro Holiday Party, and introducing our new mixed drink menu!  Enjoy some tray-passed hors d’oeuvres for a flat fee plus drink specials all night.

Friday Dec. 14th from 5pm-9pm
Check out some special mead-based mixed drinks at our Celebration of Mead with Golden Coast Meadery of Temecula on Friday!

Wednesday Dec. 19th
This month’s Third Wednesday DrinkAbout (FREE beer shuttle) will feature Cismontane Brewery’s Dead Santa on draft, paired with a starter special to be determined.

Friday-Sunday Dec. 21-23
We’ll be offering a special Coastal Christmas Weekend Prix Fixe Menu in addition to our regular menu, as well as pouring the Karl Strauss Mouette a Trios Holiday Fruitcake Aleon draft.  The menu will be $30 for the following three courses: Roasted Bell Pepper Soup, Seared Scallops with Roasted Brussel Sprouts, Apples and Bacon, and Peppermint Bread Pudding.

Monday & Tuesday, Dec. 24th & 25th
We will be CLOSED on both Christmas Eve & Christmas Day this year

Sunday Dec. 30th
The neighborhood-wide monthly 30th on 30th tasting event continues, with a featured seasonal beer pairing special from yours truly.

Monday Dec. 31st
To celebrate the end of an incredible year, we will be serving a fun and very sharable a la carte tapas menu, plus offering bottles of Champagne for just $25 all night long, so make a reservation today, come with friends, and eat well on New Year’s Eve!

Getting the newsletter out a bit early this month (for next month) because….drum roll…Beer Week is almost here!  Enjoy 10 days straight of craft beer-related events all over town, including this schedule of events at Sea Rocket.  Most of our events this year are informal- reservations are only required for our Veteran’s Day Cider Dinner on Sunday the 11th, though we do recommend making reservations in general since we anticipate being busy throughout that time.  We’ve got some fun and interesting evenings planned, and some incredibly special beers reserved that we look forward to sharing with you!

On Tuesday, October 30th we’ll be featuring the Cismontane Nopalito de Trigo, a white wheat beer fermented with hefeweizen yeast and infused with the juice of the prickly pear, part of their native species collection.  It will be paired with an Orange Glazed Pork Belly with Potatoes and Kale for 30th on 30th.

Of course, Halloween is on Wednesday and as part of our “Wine & Cheesy Movie Night” series, we’ll be showing a double feature of the Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder 1974 classic Young Frankenstein + the original version of the 1941 werewolf movie The Wolf Man.  Come in costume (pretty please!) and we’ll give you your first drink at half price!

We’ll be continuing our Wednesday movie nights in November, with the following lineup of cheeseball flicks for you.  Movies start at 7-ish, our Bottle Night discounts are available, and we offer a special Cheese & Charcuterie Platter just for this event.

11/7 – Strange Brew (in keeping with the theme fo Beer Week of course!)
11/14 – Son in Law
11/21 – Planes Trains & Automobiles
11/28 – Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

This Thursday, November 1st, we’re hosting a French Vegan Cooking Class with Chef Jenn Felmley from 6-9pm.  Feel free to call last-minute if you’re interested, as sometimes we do have spaces open up the day of.  And if we are booked, you can sign up in advance for her next class!

During Beer Week, we’ll also be opening for a special Vegan Sunday Brunch event on Sunday the 4th, run by the folks at True Kitchen Creatives.  They’ve got a fantastic, and totally vegan, menu planned, and our beverage list will be available to accompany it.  The brunch will run from 9am-2pm.

We’ll be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 22nd, but open all days surrounding the holiday.

And speaking of holidays, it’s never too early to book your party or family affair.  We love helping you celebrate your special occasions and can accomodate groups of up to 75!  Just let us know what you need, and we’ll help you arrange it.  You can also buy gift certificates to Sea Rocket on-line at any time via this website!

Ahhh, Fall is in the air.  (Just not in San Diego!!)  But we’re going to move ahead with some seasonal changes anyways.  Our new Fall Menu will be rolled out over the next few weeks with the first changes being made this weekend.  Look for this upgrade to a great house specialty- Pumpkin Gnocchi with oyster mushrooms, cipollini onions, pepitas (roasted pumpkin seeds), sage, and brown butter sauce.  We’ll also be serving a Half Roast Chicken with sauteed rapini, almonds, chili flake and pecarino.  Start your meal with a cup of Creamy Butternut Squash Soup or a combination of Soup & Grilled Cheese  made with brie and chipotle cheddar on some Sadie Rose focaccia.  Shall I go on?  Grape & Apple Salad anyone?  OK, stop drooling.  Please.  Our menu will be updated on-line at each step, so just stay tuned and I promise you won’t miss out on anything.  I will probably even throw some new food photos your way on facebook (but I recommend not e-browsing while hungry!)

OK, on to all of our upcoming events, specials, and other fun stuff!

Oktoberfest Celebration
Monday, October 1st – Sunday, October 7th
Join us for some great local craft Oktoberfest beers & German-inspired menu specials including the Gulasch with House-Made Herbed Spatzle pictured here, a Beer-Poached Mako Shark Fish Brat with House-Made Sauerkraut, and our twist on a Black Forest Cake- a Chocolate Sour Cherry Cheesecake!  Click here for more details.

NEW!  Wine & Cheesy Movie Nights
Every Wednesday at 7pm starting October 3rd
Take advantage of our Wednesday Bottle Night discounts (FREE Corkage + 20% OFF any bottle in the house) and special Cheese & Charcuterie Plate while enjoying a cheeseball flick with your neighbors.  Seating is communal in the front room and movies start between 7-7:30pm.  Check our October schedule of movies here.

Please note that we will be showing the Presidential Debates tonight, October 3rd from 6-7:30pm, so the movie will not go on until 7:30.  Join us to follow the remaining Presidential Debates on THE BIG SCREEN Oct. 11th, 16th, and 22nd as well!

Taste of North Park
Saturday, October 6th from 11am-4pm
This annual taste of event is coming up this Saturday!  We’ll be serving a bite of Black Mediterranean Mussels in a creamy beer broth.  Get your tickets here!  Proceeds benefit North Park Main Street, our business improvement district office.  Come sample the neighborhood and show your appreciation of what they do for us!  The Roast Coach Coffee Bar will be operating throughout the day if you need a caffeine fix to keep you going, and KIFM 98.1 will be DJing in front of the bistro to pump up your musical appetite.  This is going to be loads of fun!

DrinkAbout Beer Shuttle
Wednesday, October 17th from 7-11pm
Stay tuned to our facebook page for up-to-the-minute updates about our monthly small plate special and featured beer pairing.

Pumpkin Carving Party & Contest with Manzanita Brewing Witch’s Hair Pumpkin Ale
Thursday October 25th, 6-9pm
BYOK (Bring Your Own Knife) to a pumpkin carving party!  Contest winner will receive a $20 SRB gift certificate in exchange for your pumpkin which will then be displayed at the bistro through Halloween.  1 pumpkin per person will be provided free of charge, with more available for $5 each.  We’ll also have the highly sought after Pumpkin Ale from Manzanita Brewing on tap!

Halloween Menu Specials
Thursday, October 25th – Wednesday, October 31st
Enjoy a few a la carte Halloween menu specials for the week, just because we like having fun with food…  Menu will be announced next week!

30th on 30th
Sunday, October 30th
Stay tuned to our facebook page for up-to-the-minute updates about our monthly small plate special and featured beer pairing.

Halloween “Wine & Cheesy Movie Night” with Monster Movie Double Feature!
Monday, October 31st, 7pm
Join us for some old-fashioned Halloween fun with a Double Feature of black & white monster movies.  Interested in more movie nights?  We’re showing cheesy flicks every Wednesday now…check schedule here!

And if you previously read about our Vegan French Cooking Class with Chef Jenn Felmley on Thursday, November 1st, we have just 2 seats left!  Call Jenn at 858-212-9054 or e-mail her at jlfelm@yahoo.com to snatch these up or to express interest in a future class.

MENU

Apple and Roasted Beet Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette
with Vegan Blue Cheese and Walnuts

French Country Vegetable Soup with Herb Pistou

Squash Cassoulet

Coconut Crème Brule

Chocolate Truffles

Happy September!  We hope that whatever transitions you’re going through right now are going smoothly.  The heat may persist, but other things have started to change as they usually do in the Fall – we’ll be moving away from our summer menu early next month so new seasonal dishes are in the works!  You can also now make reservations to dine with us directly from our facebook page!

Thanks to those who came out for Eat Drink Local Week, the Keep-A-Breast DrinkAbout Fundraiser, and our impromptu Blackout Anniversary Stout Night this month.  We always have so much fun sharing great local food & drink with you!  Here is the lineup of events taking place in the near future.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Guest Chef Event, Monday 9/24
Enjoy 8 different dishes in 4 courses next Monday during this one-night-only Guest Chef Event, featuring duos of Mediterranean fare from Chef Tommy Fraioli and Asian-inspired flavors from his friend and Executive Chef at Lei Lounge Angel Melgoza.  Click here for the menu and other details and then call us for reservations!

DrinkAbout, Wednesday 9/19
Try some of Black Market Brewing’s experimental Quadrophenia, a Belgian style quadruple ale that is strong, rich, and caramely.  Follow DrinkAbout updates here on facebook.

Quadrophenia is one of the single most popular beers to come from our weekly release series of experimental beers. As its namesake suggests, Quadrophenia is a Belgian style quadruple ale. We ferment Quadrophenia using Trappist ale yeast, which produces the spicy, phenolic flavors sometimes mistaken for added spices. The unique characteristics of caramel don’t come from the Pale and Munich malts, but from the introduction of Coconut Palm Sugar used in the brewing process. The smoothness of this ale leads some people to underestimate the potency of Quadrophenia, but make no mistake, it’s 11% ABV.

Salsa Sushi, Wednesday 9/26
Salsa Sushi is back next week when Ms. Boulevard Beryl Forman returns to roll some more of this fun concept food for us.  Our featured roll this time will be a Pork Belly Roll with korean bbq sauce, peppers, and grilled pineapple.  We’ll also have a vegetarian roll and a seafood roll to chose from.  Join us for a casual mixer and sample these tasty sushi rolls made with latin flavors.

30th on 30th, Sunday 9/30
We’ll highlight a local craft beer and small plate pairing special as usual for this monthly “taste of” event.

Wine & Cheesy Movie Nights start in October!
Going out for Dinner & a Movie is simply a classic way to spend an evening.  But Wine & Cheesy Movies?  Yeah!  We’ll be starting up a winter movie night series next month every Wednesday at 7pm featuring one of the many cheesy films from Chef Tommy’s personal collection and accompanied by our continuing Bottle Night Special: FREE Corkage and/or 20% OFF all bottles in the house.  Movies will take place in the front room communally and we encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity to try some of the excellent beers and wines off our bottle list!  Bottle Night is only one of several weekly promotions we offer!

HEADS UP TO THE FUTURE

There are a few other things that we’re simply too excited about not to mention here!  It’s never too early to put cool stuff on your calendar, right?

Vegan French Cooking Class, 11/1
Guest Chef Jenn Felmley will be back with an All Saint’s Day vegan cooking class featuring a menu of French recipes.  If you want to get a jump on reservations, call her at 858-212-9054 or e-mail jlfelm@yahoo.com.  Classes are always a blast!  (Details will be published on our blog soon.)

San Diego Beer Week! 11/2-11/11
Boy are we planning some fun for you again this year!  Join us for 10 days of enlightening events during this annual local celebration of craft beer.  Look out for a Home Brew Dinner, The Flavors of Yeast Part 2, a Not So Rough Draft Flight Night, a Barrel Aged Beer Tasting Night, and a Veteran’s Day Cider Dinner with Julian Hard Cider, among many others.

Don’t miss out on any of our fun goings-on!  Follow us on facebook here and stay up on quick posts, specials reminders, and other timely announcements.

Hello Sea Rocket readers!  We hope you’re having a happy and healthy hot summer!  Here’s what’s happening at the Rocket…

NEWS

You can now purchase gift certificates for Sea Rocket on-line!  After making your purchase, you’ll simply receive an e-mail confirmation.  Whether you’re getting ready for the holidays, or know a local foodie who would love to sample our craft beers, California wines, and sustainable seafood, your gift is just a few clicks away.  Of course you can also purchase certificates in person at the restaurant anytime we’re open if you prefer!  (Hint: Send this link to anyone who may be buying a gift for YOU in the near future!)  If you lose this link, you can also find it under our Contact menu tab or at the bottom of our About Us page.

MENU

Get it while it’s HOT HOT HOT!!  Chef Tommy Fraioli has made a few more seasonal changes recently.  We’ve got those much asked for Blistered Peppers again typically using either the shishito or padron variety from Suzie’s Farm, we’ve added a Caprese Salad to the list featuring those lovely and juicy summer heirloom tomatoes with house-made mozzarella, and we’ve put Yellowtail back onto our market fish options, served with green and yellow wax beans and a bacon vinaigrette.  We’re also offering Whole Grilled Black Gill Rock Cod as often as we can get it from fisherman Zach, served with beautiful veggies such as asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and various types of squash.  Whenever you see whole fish on our specials board, I highly recommend you try it!

EVENTS

Wednesday, August 15th – Third Wednesday DrinkAbout
The FREE bar-hopping shuttle continues tomorrow night from 7-11pm, taking you door-to-door between your favorite local beer bars from South Park to Normal Heights for some safe nighttime fun.  Check the website here for the schedule which is the same every month.  At Sea Rocket, we’ll be tapping a keg of the just-released Stone Brewing 16th Anniversary Ale, to be paired with Chef Tommy Fraioli’s creative new Urchin Crostini which comes on grilled ciabatta bread with compound butter, jalapeno jam, and lavender sea salt.  This recipe will be published in an upcoming coffee table book, so please come out to try it and let us know if you’d make it at home!

Thursday, August 16th – Monkey Paw Beer Pairing Dinner
A casual, all-night beer tasting affair featuring beers from Monkey Paw Brewing in East Village, paired with Chef Tommy Fraioli’s creative local cuisine.  It’s THIS THURSDAY, so call today for reservations!  619-255-7049.

Sunday, August 26th – Cider Pairing Dinner
Next we’ll be hosting a 4-Course Cider Tasting dinner with Fox Barrel Pear and Crispin Hard Apple ciders.  Communal seating will be at 7pm for the entire menu, and some open reservations will also be available for a la carte ordering at other times.  Whether you are a die-hard beer fan or not, you’re going to love these west-coast ciders with fruit sourced from Washington and Oregon and fermentation and bottling done in Colfax California.  Learn a bit about this less-oft drunken beverage and see how refreshing they can be on a hot summer’s night!  All ciders are brewed with organic sweeteners such as honey, maple syrup and molasses and feature different yeasts just like beer.  AND, they are all gluten-free, so our meal will be too!  Click here for the menu details.

Thursday, August 30th – 30th on 30th
This monthly mini taste of event continues every 30th of the month.  If you haven’t been out for it in a while, do check it out again for some great specials on small plates and discounted drinks.  There is a new website where 30th on 30th specials are being listed, so bookmark this page for future reference.

September 1st-8th – Eat Drink Local Week
Make a point to eat local during the first annual Eat Drink Local Week as we celebrate local seasonal food and food makers in San Diego while raising money for three nonprofits that promote healthy food and agriculture education (Olivewood Gardens, Seeds @ City Urban Farm, and Wild Willow Farm.)

At Sea Rocket Bistro, we’ll be offering a special fish entree all week long, featuring the following sources:

Baja Yellowtail from Catalina Offshore
served with Roasted Corn from Gloria Tamai Farm,
Suzie’s Farm Chocolate Bell Pepper Purée,
Red Chard from Be Wise Ranch,
and Red Pearl Onions from McGrath Farm

Learn more from the organizers at Edible San Diego.

Our July Car2Go event was a smashing success (no cars were harmed in the process though!)  The event was covered in a KPBS segment about car share programs (you can watch the video on-line here), and we’ll be holding another membership drive with them again later in the year so more of you can get the opportunity to ask questions and sign up.

Thanks to everyone for your continued support of our mission and for the great turnout our events have had lately.  We hope you have been enjoying all of the wonderful things our community has to offer, and we hope to get to see you again before the summer is over!