The restaurant’s bar menu is heavy on the retro-style cocktails, including the house special: Smoking Ember, a $24 mezcal and grapefruit drink that’s served tableside with a poppable bubble of “citrus smoke” on top. To make it easier to choose dishes, the restaurant offers a three-tiered “Epic Snack Tower” of bite-size small plate items for $162 at lunch and $195 for dinner. And the Crab avocado ($24) is a fun trompe l’oeil, a skinned avocado stuffed with crab salad and dusted with black lime powder that resembles the dark skin of a ripe Hass avocado. The Hot Scotch Egg ($9) is an odd thing to find on a dinner menu, especially with a side of mousse-like maple syrup, but it’s a good dinner- and conversation-starter. The Oysters & Pearls ($16) are raw oysters on the half shell with tiny pearlized balls of bitingly flavorful liquefied cilantro. It’s a savory flavor bomb, slathered with house-made kimchi ketchup and topped with white cheddar, caramelized onions and sweet and sour pickles. Before moving to San Diego, Blais ran a gourmet burger chain in Atlanta, and he created a killer off-menu In-N-Out-inspired burger at Juniper & Ivy. Priced at $26, the backyard-style burger comes with an enormous portion of crunchy/tender triple-cooked fries. But on a journalist’s budget, I opted for the blue-collar alternative: the burger - made with a blend of Flannery, A5 Wagyu and other meats trimmed and ground in-house. They’re cooked over a wood fire on a Santa Maria-style outdoor grill that diners can see from the east dining room and patio.įrom my vantage point in the dining room on two visits, the steaks are clearly selling well. The heart of the menu is the steaks that range in price from $49 for a 6-ounce Brandt Beef bacon-wrapped filet mignon to $94 for a 14-day dry-aged “Thor’s Hammer Cut” 30-ounce Flannery Beef rib-eye to a staggering $190 for a 12-ounce A5 Japanese Wagyu “skinny cut” sirloin.
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