NOMAD DONUTS ADDS FULL BREAKFAST TO MENU
North Park restaurant unveils hot dishes, new sandwiches; Fairmont debuts open-air dining
Nomad Donuts, the popular North Park doughnut and bagel shop owned by world traveler Brad Keiller, is expanding its horizons.
The restaurant at 3102 University Ave. has broadened its offerings in recent weeks to include a full breakfast menu. The new menu features a dozen bagel sandwiches, including the Montreal smoked brisket sandwich, with beef from Coop’s West Texas BBQ; a Southwest bacon, egg and cheese sandwich; and a Croque Madame created by former Herb & Wood chef Cole Pitchford.
The menu also features several hot breakfast items, including house-cured salmon, bacon or root vegetable eggs Benedict, bagel French toast and brisket machaca scramble. There’s also a poutine dish, inspired by Keiller’s Canadian heritage, made with brined fries, Wisconsin cheese and Montreal-style gravy. Meanwhile, the restaurant is still serving a rotating variety of globally inspired doughnuts, including Thai tea and peanut butter, lemongrass yuzu and ube taro coconut flavors. For details, visit nomaddonuts.com.
Fairmont resort debuts Fireside Lounge
The Fairmont Grand Del Mar resort has introduced a new open-air, socially distanced dining and drinking program called Fireside Lounge.
Diners can reserve one of 10 cabanas with firepits or eight separate firepits that are positioned on a grass lawn at the Carmel Valley resort. The cabanas comfortably seat six people, and the firepits seat up to four. There’s no fee to use a cabanas or firepits, or a minimum food order, but reservations are required.
The Fireside Lounge menu features small plates like hangar steak tartare and a
cheese and charcuterie board priced from $16 to $32, and desserts like a s’mores kit for two or chocolate marquise pastry, priced from $10 to $16. There are also specialty cocktails, wines, local craft beers and Champagne. The resort is at 5300 Grand Del Mar Court in Carmel Valley. For menu and details, fairmont.com/san-diego.
Krasne hosts virtual cooking series
Karen Krasne, the owner and pastry chef for the Extraordinary Desserts shops in Bankers Hill and Little Italy, has launched a spring series of live online cooking demonstrations called “Kitchen Secrets.”
The 45-minute demos feature Krasne preparing desserts, sharing her recipes and answering viewers’ questions live. Each class is $30. The first one was presented on March 31 with an Easter theme. Still to come:
• Blackberry white chocolate trifle, featuring Krasne’s daughter Sahara, for Mother’s Day: 5 p.m. May 5
• Chocolate malt ball loaf prep in honor of Father’s Day: 5 p.m. June 9.
Register at extraordinarydesserts.com/ kitchen-secrets/.
Eggies opens in North Park
Eggies, a walk-up, quick-service breakfast chain, opened its fourth San Diego outlet last week in North Park. The restaurant is located next door to its sit-down sister restaurant, Breakfast Republic, at 2726 University Ave. The 100-square-foot grab-and-go stand, open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, sells breakfast sandwiches, French toast in jars, churros, hash browns, nitro coffee and other items.
Meanwhile, Rise & Shine Hospitality Group, the parent company for Eggies, Breakfast Republic, Fig Tree Café and several other concepts, has announced plans for more openings.
Company founder Johan Engman said he plans to open several more Eggies outlets in Southern California in the coming year, including one beside an upcoming Breakfast Republic location planned at 637 Pearl St. in La Jolla. Also in the works for 2022 is a new Fig Tree Café/Eggies dual project that will take over the former SanSai Fresh Japanese Grill space at 7710 Hazard Center Drive, Suite D, in Mission Valley.
For details, visit riseandshinerg.com.
Mini golf and cocktails
Tappers Mini Golf & Cocktails, a new 18-hole miniature golf course and upscale cocktail bar, is being developed at The Loma Club at Liberty Station in Point Loma.
The Loma Club, the historic golf club for Liberty Station’s nine-hole golf course, is now undergoing renovation, and the mini golf course and bar will soon be built for a combined opening in late summer.
It’s a project of You & Yours Distilling co-founders Laura Johnson and Luke Mahoney and their business partners John Levan and Oliver Mahoney, who took over the lease on the Loma Club building in January 2020. Oliver Mahoney has designed several miniature golf courses in the United Kingdom.