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

December 24 - Solare Christmas Eve Dinner

Please join us for a special Christmas Eve dinner – a Holiday Feast with traditional dishes from Sicily! For this entire evening, 4:30pm to 9pm, Chef Accursio will be sharing family recipes that he learned from his Mother and Grandmother back in Sicily on a prix fixe special menu. It is a 4-course dinner that Chef Accursio designed with a couple special surprises. The dinner is $59++ for adults and we can definitely do something simpler for kids with our kid’s menu. You can make your reservation today.

December 19 - Stonestreet Estate Vineyards Wine Dinner ~ Last Wine Dinner for 2017!

JUST ANNOUNCED!  We have one more Solare Wine Dinner for 2017!!  And it is an epic one!!  Yes, we have Stonestreet Estate Vineyards here at Solare for a grand wine dinner.   

Stonestreet is one of the most expansive and multi-faceted mountain vineyards in the world and produces a distinctive collection of single vineyard wines — Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.   The winery is proud to act as stewards of the land, caring for this 5,500 acre mountain estate that towers high above the Alexander Valley in the Mayacamas Mountain Range. One of the wines we are pouring is their incredible Rockfall Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. Happy!

Click here to make a reservation for this special Wine Dinner. $94/person includes 5 Stonestreet wines and the 4-course dinner designed and prepared by Chef Accursio. 6:45pm Dinner and 6:15pm Reception with Stonestreet Winery Ambassador, Craig Ellick. Yay!