New chefs at Union Kitchens in Gaslamp and Encinitas

pork porterhouse at Union Kitchen & Tap, Gaslamp Quarter

Dec. 18, 2020

2 PM

OMG Hospitality Group has hired new chefs for two of its local restaurant locations.

Christopher Gerwig is the new executive chef at Union Kitchen & Tap in the Gaslamp Quarter. Some of his new dishes are pork porterhouse and hamachi crudo with roasted jalapeno-pomegranate salsa.

Previously, he worked as executive chef at Searsucker in San Diego. Anthony Calamari is the new executive chef at Union Kitchen & Tap in Encinitas. Some of his new dishes are sweet potato ravioli and wild boar ragu. He previously worked for Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza & Grill and Urban Plates.

Pam Kragen writes about local restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is a feature writer who specializes in writing human interest, dining, theater and opera stories. She joined The San Diego 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/opera critic. She is the president and 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. She reports from the U-T’s North County office in San Marcos.