Rare Society is on its way to Solana Beach next spring

An artist's rendering of the exterior of Rare Society in Solana Beach.

Dec. 3, 2020 10 AM PT

Trust Restaurant Group has announced plans to open a second Rare Society retro steakhouse and bar next spring in the Solana Beach arts district.

The original Rare Society opened in November 2019 in University Heights. The new location at 330 S. Cedros Ave., Suite 104, will have 90 seats indoors, including 26 at the bar, as well as 36 seats outdoors. It’s slated to open in April or May and will serve lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Rare Society in University Heights reopened for outdoor dining on Saturday with a new outdoor dining room. Hours are limited, at least initially, from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursdays-Mondays. Visit raresocietysd.com.

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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.