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New spring menus from Lionfish, Valentina and more San Diego restaurants

Lobster roll sliders at Lionfish's new Sunday brunch.
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By Pam Kragen
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Lionfish Modern Coastal Cuisine at the Pendry Hotel in the Gaslamp Quarter has introduced its first-ever Sunday brunch service. Chef JoJo Ruiz’s menu launched April 18. Served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the a la carte menu features items such as strawberry ricotta pancakes with duck confit hash and Maine lobster with chorizo scramble. A $25 all-you-can-drink mimosa or rosé options is available. The Pendry is at 435 Fifth Ave., San Diego. Visit lionfishsd.com.

Valentina, a European-style bistro in Leucadia, has introduced a lunch menu with dishes inspired by the cuisines of Spain, France and Mexico City. The expanded lunch service is offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays-Sundays. Dishes include steak sandwich, Niçoise salad and little neck clams on the half shell. Valentina is at 810 N. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. Visit restaurantvalentina.com.

Civico by the Park has reintroduced its Sunday “Calabrifornia” brunch menu blending Calabrian and California cuisines. Dishes include pancakes tiramisu and shrimp frittata tacos in Calabrian chili sauce. Service is 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays at 550 Fifth Ave., Unit 120, San Diego. Visit civicobythepark.com

Mister A’s has relaunched its Friday lunch service and its Sunday brunch. The Friday menu, served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., includes mussels Provencale, tagliatelle and clams and mac ‘n’ cheese with black truffle and pancetta. Brunch service, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sundays, features local farm shakshouka, prime beef stake “au poivre” and handmade pastries. Mister A’s is at 2550 Fifth Ave., 12th floor, San Diego. Visit asrestaurant.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.

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