by Jeff Josenhans
With summer just around the corner and almost a half-year of New Year’s resolutions well underway, it’s a great opportunity to take some time off and indulge in some of Downtown’s latest additions to the food and beverage scene.
Hold off on moving your social life to the beach just one more month and check out the following new hot spots!
Gang Kitchen has been a welcome, hip, Asian-inspired addition to the dining scene bringing some hip, but relaxed energy to an area on Sixth that was for a long time a dead zone.
This dead zone is actually growing fast and after dinner at Gang Kitchen how about dessert at a hamburger joint? Weird, I know, but the alcoholic milkshakes at The Counter are a great way to replace dessert any day. Not to mention that nothing really says indulgence more than combing ice cream and bourbon, right?
In the same area you will find perhaps the best-designed speakeasy I have seen in quite some time at Cat Eye Club. It’s retro, but just enough!
After a quick smoke and brisk walk (trust me you’ll need one after that milkshake) go and check out the latest addition to – the original San Diego speakeasy of the last decade – Prohibition. They have a new Scotch room, which was once a closet, that is the best usage of space in a bar I might have ever seen.
To top the evening off the latest FLUXX design is definitely worth a visit for all of you club-goers.
How to end a night like that?
First, sleep in the next day. Then, head down to the U.S. Grant for their new make-it-yourself waffle buffet happening now every Sunday in the Grant Grill. Then go on yet another much needed walk and soak in the coming summer sun.
Enjoy your weekend of indulgence. You can thank me later!
In just three years, level 2 CMS Sommelier and Master Mixologist Jeff Josenhans has changed the dynamic in The Grant Grill Downtown from a classic institution to an exciting lounge and elegant restaurant. Taking the kitchen’s “Farm to Table” philosophy to the bar, he has developed a seasonal cocktail program based largely on the hotel’s rooftop garden. He can be reached at [email protected].
