Saltbox is excited and honored to be recognized in the press. Here is a collection of all the buzz!
People are talking about Saltbox. Others are inspired to write about us. Here's a sample of what they've put into words:
I've had it in a glass and it's so nectar-satisfying I'd drink it out of a motorcyclist's boot.
"Sharing plates at Hotel Palomar's new restaurant is like a gastro-tour from the Big Easy to the California coast"
"this space has been given something far better than a facelift. Now it has heart...and hope"
Suite & Tender is out of the former Se' Hotel (now Hotel Palomar) and Saltbox is in. Chef Simon Dolinky's menu of New American "social plates" can be made large or small, depending on the size of your party and are all less than $25.
Erin Williams is the new savant behind the bar, and she's managed to initiate a cocktail program that's both accessible and inventive.
Sorry L.A., but you didn't appreciate the seasonal stewardship of chef Simon Dolinky while you had him and now he's run off to San Diego.
The long and winding road for the troubled Se San Diego has come to an...on-ramp to a very happy future with Kimpton Hotels. The hotel has been rebranded as The Palomar San Diego, making it the second Kimpton property in town (after the Solamar.)
What is new is the hotel's restaurant, Saltbox, led by chef Simon Dolinky (who came from Palomar in LA). The restaurant replaces the old Suite and Tender space and the new menu features a "gastro-lounge" menu with all shared plates under $25. Plus there's a strong (heh) cocktail program led by mixologist Erin Williams of Hush Cocktails and Pegu Club fame.
Former BLVD 16 cookster Simon Dolinky has accepted the executive chef role at newbie Saltbox Dining & Drinking in San Dieg's Se Hotel. Cocktail are run by Erin Williams who once worked at Aubrey Saunders' Pegu Club in NYC.
After recetly acquiring The Se, Kimpton Hotels is ousting Suite & Tender in favor of Saltbox: a 175-seat, bi-level resto/"gastro-lounge" with the upstairs acting as the grubbin' space, and the base level housing the classily appointed "Saltbar" with a marble-topped boozed dispensary and meandering lounge interspersed with tiled pillars that look like the bodies fo emaciated diamondbacks, which are all but extincct since the Big Unit departed in'04.
Hospitality: Style, Culture and Cuisine Are Key Elements for Property
San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group LLC has followed up on its $49 million purchase of the former Se` San Diego hotel by renaming it Hotel Palomar San Diego, updating its interior designs and rebooting its in-house restaurant, among other changes.
Saltbox just debuted as a New American gastro-lounge under the helm of executive chef Simon Dolinky. Located in the spot previously occupied by Suite & Tender, the restaurant's de'cor is the same for now, while Dolinky's new menu offers ingredient driven 'social plates.
Sorry L.A., but you didn't appreciate the seasonal stewardship of chef Simon Dolinky while you had him and now he's run off to San Diego. Dolinky helmed Blvd 16 at Westwood's Kimpton Palomar with a serious devotion to local product (growing herbs on the Kimpton's roof before the trend swept up the city) on a bright, minimal menu that flaunted natural essence, organic seafood and meats, responsible purveyors, and the chef's own resourceful imagination.
The tony Sè hotel, which was purchased out of bankruptcy earlier this year by Kimpton Hotels, has a new name: the Hotel Palomar. As part of its effort to re-launch the hotel, which had a rocky history even before it opened in late 2008, the San Francisco-based hotel group is announcing today its plan for re-branding the 183-room property.
Former BLVD 16 cookster Simon Dolinky has accepted the executive chef role at newbie Saltbox Dining & Drinking in San Diego's Se Hotel. Cocktails are run by Erin Williams who once worked at Audrey Saunders' Pegu Club in NYC.
