Jeune et Jolie in Carlsbad wakes up after winter hiatus

The redesigned patio at Jeune et Jolie in Carlsbad, which reopened March 21.

April 3, 2021 6 AM PT

Carlsbad’s Jeune et Jolie restaurant ended its self-imposed hibernation on March 21 with the return of chef Eric Bost’s five-course tasting menus on its patio.

During its winter hiatus, the restaurant added new permanent outdoor features to its former parking lot, including an enclosure wall, banquette-style seating, more landscaping, an outdoor stove and overhead heaters, tile and stone flooring and new tables and chairs at 2659 State St., Carlsbad. Visit jeune-jolie.com.

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