Less than ten minutes after walking into Ponsaty’s last week, I walked out. Something fishy was happening and it wasn’t the special Spanish Tuna dinner I had been looking forward to for over a month. Instead, I left the restaurant far hungrier than when I arrived. But, now, I was craving answers after ingesting a crudo…
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Ponsaty’s French Dinner Series…Breaking the Wintry Chill
Call it a lull, a pause, a plateau…hopefully not a rut…that the San Diego restaurant scene has been mired in for most of the last chilly, rainy quarter of a year. When one major food writer in town resorts to an entire series on salt and pepper and another does a take down of a…
Ponsaty’s Restaurant – Every Bite the Perfect Bite
Had President Harry Truman been a chef and restaurateur in today’s world, he might have thought a little harder about popularizing the concept, “The buck stops here.” These days, putting your name over the front door of a restaurant, as French Master Chef Patrick Ponsaty has done with the freshly opened Ponsaty’s restaurant in Rancho Santa…
Ponsaty’s Rancho Santa Fe – Almost Finished but Only Beginning
How hungry are Rancho Santa Fe residents for a new and fresh dining destination in the form of ground breaking while familiar, inventive yet classic and interesting but comfortable cuisine? Said Derry Van Nortwick, Vice President of Operations of the Grand Group, who somehow found time to give us a private tour in the midst of juggling all…
Dinner with a French Master Chef
If I were to attend only one food event this year, it would be on June 6th at Bandy Canyon Ranch, where the sum of French Master Chefs in North America will be gathered for their annual MCF Congress. In fact, that date has been on my calendar since last June when French Master Chef…