Addison in Del Mar reopens for patio dining

William Bradley, chef/partner at Addison restaurant

Plus, Reda’s Ethiopian Vegan Cuisine opens as delivery-only restaurant, operating as a “ghost kitchen” concept

Feb. 21, 2021 6:20 AM PT

Addison, San Diego’s only Michelin-starred restaurant, reopened for patio dining on Feb. 12.

During December and January, chef/director William Bradley was serving a gourmet take-home meal, but with the reopening, only onsite dining is being offered on the heated terrace of the Carmel Valley restaurant.

Addison serves five- and 10-course California gastronomy menus starting at $185. New hours are 5 to 10 p.m. with the last seating at 8 p.m. 5200 Grand Del Mar Way. Details at addisondelmar.com.

Ethiopian vegan restaurant opens

Reda’s Ethiopian Vegan Cuisine, a delivery-only restaurant in San Diego, opened Feb. 12.

Founded by a family of Ethiopian immigrants who fled famine in 1984 for a refugee camp in Sudan, Reda’s uses traditional family recipes that have been handed down for generations. The menu includes sambusa, shiro, hamli, dinch and carrot, miser wot, kik alicha wot and mushroom tibs.

Because of ongoing war in Ethiopia, Reda’s co-owner Rosa Adam said that 7 percent of all profits will go toward hunger efforts there.

The original plan for Reda’s was to open as a brick-and-mortar store, but because of the pandemic, Adam said they’re now operating as a “ghost kitchen” concept from a commercial kitchen in central San Diego.

Reda’s offer deliveries through DoorDash and GrubHub and also offers curbside pickup. Visit redasethiopiancuisine.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.