Nick Jonas-owned Tequila Gardens rooftop nightspot coming to Gaslamp Quarter

Artist's rendering of Villa One Tequila Gardens in the Gaslamp Quarter.

San Diego Union-Tribune

March 29, 2022 6 AM PT

Pop star Nick Jonas and menswear designer John Varvatos will open Villa One Tequila Gardens restaurant, bar and nightlife destination this spring in the Gaslamp Quarter.

The 5,000-square-foot, open-air venue will take over the rooftop space now occupied by the 5th & Sky bar atop the TheatreBox building at 701 Fifth Ave. Chef Jorge Cueva will create the Mexican menu featuring tostadas, tacos, burritos, enchiladas, as well as “Japa-Mex” sushi rolls with Mexican flavors, birria, Ensenada-style fish and a 64-ounce tomahawk steak. The bar menu will spotlight a collection of more than 160 tequilas and mezcals.

The San Diego location will be one of three Villa One Tequila Gardens locations the partners are planning in the near future. The others are in Las Vegas and Miami. Visit villaonetequilagardens.com.

Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.