February 03 - Solare + Fortaleza Tequila Tasting Dinner ~ 16 person limit – Sold Out

Be amazed by how well Chef Accursio’s cuisine pairs with the world’s best tequila, Fortaleza! Join me as I lead the 4-course dinner and tasting with an evening of fun details and photos of everything about agave, tequila, and Jalisco. Learn how the agave is grown and used to make this amazing spirit. Be at Solare at 7pm for a Reception with a Welcome Cocktail that Tommy designed. Boutique dinner – 16 persons total dining & drinking with me in our special private room. $64 for the 4-course dinner and $24 for the Fortaleza for the evening. Seating is very limited. Reserve today via email or call 619-270-9670. – Sold Out

February 03 - Cooking Class: Chocolate & Desserts

Chef Accursio shares his passion and reveals his mastery of the world’s most celebrated confection, chocolate. Through a step-by-step introduction to chocolate, Chef Accursio will cover buying, tasting, tempering, coating and decorating with chocolate in a hands-on environment. After various skills are demonstrated, you will have the opportunity to work with your own chocolate, and use it in cold and baked pastries as well as learn to use chocolate as a sweet and savory enhancement to various main dishes. Regardless of your experience, this chocolate workshop will provide you with skills and knowledge that will pay you back for years to come! The class will cover chocolate/cacao, different techniques, Cocoa Cake sponge, Cocoa ravioli, Truffles, Mascarpone Mousse. The fun starts at 10:30am at Solare with an Italian-style coffee of your choice and a pastry. Italian wine is served for students interested in “cooking with wine”. – Limit 10 — $85/student that includes the class, wine, and lunch. Secure your spot today.

January 27 - Cooking Class: Ravioli and Fresh Pasta from Scratch – Sold Out

Solare’s pasta is made fresh every day – in our kitchen. This is an opportunity to see exactly how Chef Accursio makes that happen! He will teach you all the right techniques to enable you to make the best “pasta fresca” and perfect ravioli. This is a hands-on pasta making class where you will learn the classic dough techniques and so much more. The fun starts at 10:30am at Solare with an Italian-style coffee of your choice and a pastry. Italian wine is served for students interested in “cooking with wine”. – Limit 10 — $85/student that includes the class, wine, and lunch. Secure your spot today. – Sold Out

January 21 - January 28 - San Diego Restaurant Week

Solare is participating in San Diego Restaurant Week this year – #SDRW! $40++ dinner and $20 lunch. We are excited! We are offering the special menu we designed for Restaurant Week as well as our “regular” lunch and dinner menus. Click here to read what @sandiegoville wrote about us … Solare is “Saturday”! And, note that during Restaurant week, the last lunch seating is 2:45pm and then dinner service begins at 4:30pm. We will be open for drinks, wine, beer, cocktails, etc., all afternoon. Resto Week!

January 16 - 16 Persons Total – Dinner with the winemaker of (arguably crazy) Tuscan winery, Podere le Ripi

Want to have dinner with the winemaker of maybe the most innovative … no, let’s be truthful, crazy … wineries in Tuscany, or maybe all of Italy? And, it’s truthful to say that these wines from Podere le Ripi will amaze you and they are delicious.

OK – if you are looking for a not-possible-anywhere-else wine and dining experience I would scoop up one of these 16 chairs fast. Yes – we have Sebastian Nasello, winemaker, of Podere le Ripi Winery here on Tuesday, January 16.    He is at one of the most fascinating and wonderful small wineries I have encountered.  Remember I mentioned they are crazy?   Take 4 minutes and read about their “Concept of Bonsai”.   

This is a 4-course dinner by Chef Accursio where each dish is paired with 5 wines from Sebastian of Podere le Ripi. And yes, we are pouring Bonsai. $125/person ~ 6:30pm Dinner. RSVP.

January 13 - Cooking Class: Fish and Shellfish + Fish Market – Sold Out

Meet at Solare and drive together to a local fish market (less than 3 miles) to learn about fish and buying fresh fish with confidence. Then we all head back to Solare to prepare and cook some great seafood dishes. Chef Accursio was born on the coast of the island of Sicily, and he will teach you how to cook the following incredible dishes: Traditional Cioppino (fish stew), Crudo all’Italiana (sashimi Italian style!), and “Pesce alla Siciliana” (whole fish). Seafood lovers will not want to miss this opportunity. NOTE that for this class, the fun starts at 10am instead of the normal 10:30am as we are visiting the fish market. We meet at Solare with an Italian-style coffee of your choice and a pastry. Italian wine is served for students interested in “cooking with wine”. – Limit 10 — $85/student that includes the class, wine, and lunch. Secure your spot today. – Sold Out