Avant - San Diego

The tasting menus of chef christopher are always amazing and beautiful. I recommend this restaurant.

Excellent eating, cozy atmosphere, great service! I love this place.

I recently dined at Avant and opted for the chef's tasting menu, which was priced at $95 per person. An additional $55 was required for the wine pairing, but my party chose to order drinks separately. Overall, I would rate the tasting menu 8 out of 10. The standout dishes were exceptional, but I was disappointed with the Sculpin, which was underseasoned and lacked accompaniments to complement the fish. Despite this misstep, the dish was cooked perfectly. The presentation of all the dishes was impressive and we thoroughly enjoyed our dining experience. The highlight of the meal was the German chocolate cake dessert, while the rhubarb dessert fell short with its sparse fruit topping. Before we left, we were given a spicy rub to take home, which added a fantastic kick to dishes like salmon. Overall, I was pleased with the meal and would have been ecstatic if the Sculpin dish had been better seasoned. Thank you to the chef for a great dining experience.

This place is a great experience! Their menu is a unique blend of fresh garden produce, experimented with some exotic vegetables and edible flowers. Their dishes are really creative and amazingly tasty! This is my first time trying the truffle butter and bread, I was absolutely amazed by the taste. Being a vegetarian, there are not many food varieties one can have. But this place has done a great job of serving well cooked vegetarian dishes. They have some turnip and daikon based dishes which I highly recommend to try. Don't miss the desserts. They are very artistic, unique and a prefect end to the dinner! The ambience is beautiful, perfect lighting with a fireplace, green view outside.

Chef Christopher Gentile and his beyond superb staff (thank you Gaby! host an exquisite and refreshing palette of flavors amidst a farm-to-table menu from their own, onsite garden, providing a culinary delight that rivals some of the best I've had in Southern California. Not only was I delightfully surprised by the high quality but I was continuously reminded how fresh and healthy the menu was as we enjoyed each dish! Truly a one of a kind experience. The ambiance is inviting, warm, and earthen as fireplaces and lanterns move to greet you against a backdrop of sweeping panaromic pine views. The cocktails are inventive with using their onsite garden ingredients like red beet vinegar, thyme, basil etc. I had 3 cocktails: Honey's Alibi (gin, honey, basil and grapefruit , Thyme Change (vodka, homemade citrus-thyme syrup, prosecco and lemon and a dessert cocktail (scroll down to see . We then ordered the tasting menu which the chef happily modified a bit for us! Crème fraîche ice cream, caviar on top of a garlic crouton. Grilled, fresh oysters, seared scallops in brown butter and pureed asparagus, and 48-hour sous vide pork belly and cheek bathed in dashi broth, wrapped in savoy cabbage. Japanese A5 Wagyu with aerated potatoes and a never-before-seen Wagyu confit (this tasted amazing! . To cap this insane meal, we ordered the chocolate torte with raspberries and crème fraîche ice cream as well as the pièce de résistance, Dark Pedigree dessert cocktail (cognac, calvados, dark chocolate and coffee . Extremely smooth finish with chocolate ganache balls, perfectly balanced between a digestif and sensual taste experience. Hats off RB Inn!