For many years Carlsbad was often just a culinary afterthought if you lived on San Diego as it hardly had any really great restaurants. But over the last several years this has changed quite a lot with restaurants like Jeune et Jolie, Lilo and Valle appearing. The Jeune et Jolie team also opened Campfire https://www.thisiscampfire.com which is a more casual restaurants and focus on. open fire preparation. Quite popular with families but still delivering very good dishes in a casual ambience.
Olives, smoked, citrus marinated, confit garlic, espelette
Broccoli, chermoula, lime, peanut
Tomato, burrata, grilled strawberry, jicama, lemon verbana
Pork belly, smoked, blackberry, kabocha, mint
Cavatelli, chanterelle mushrooms, manchego, winter squash, truffle
Pork, grilled, saffron, vadouvan, persimmon, squash
Steelhead trout, grilled, wild mushrooms, miso, black garlic, scallion
Smores, chocolate, mallow, graham
