Chef’s counter at Fort Oak in San Diego

I do enjoy going quite a bit to Fort Oak but this was my first Chef’s counter with them. It was $180 for the dinner and $60 for the pairing for a total with everything else of $340. Dinner lasted a total of 3 hours.

Some of my thoughts:

The scallop dish is by far one of the best scallop bites I’ve had. The seaweed butter was insane. Unfortunately, it won’t be going on the menu anytime soon as the chef explained to us that the dish was too difficult to scale up to make into into an actual dish.

The stuffed fried pepper in the wagyu dish was very well executed. And the Carolina Gold hollandaise was awesome. Of course I didn’t lick the dish, but I wanted too.

Everything else was solid but the scallop and wagyu dish were the stars for me.

The pairing is such a good deal. And the pours extremely generous. They kept topping me off.

I love to dine by myself but for those that might not this chef’s counter was one of the more social ones I’ve been to in the States. Would highly recommend it for the solo diner.

I’ve always enjoyed going to Fort Oak and the chef’s counter certainly didn’t disappoint. They won’t have the next one until the beginning of next year but if you find yourself in San Diego I would check it out. At $340 after everything I would consider it pretty good deal for the 3 hours. Maybe a bit controversial but I would choose the chef’s counter at Fort Oak over Jeune et Jolie. Next I’m off to try Valle in Oceanside.

Cheers!