Avant Restaurant at Rancho Bernardo Inn introduces tasting menu

A duck dish from Avant Restaurant's new $135 tasting menu.

Aug. 9, 2021 6 AM PT

Avant Restaurant at the Rancho Bernardo Inn has recently introduced a $135 tasting menu as an option on its a la carte menu.

Executive chef Christopher Gentile said his long-term goal is to transition to a tasting menu-only restaurant, which was how it operated from time time in its former life as the El Bizcocho restaurant.

Avant is at 17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive, San Diego. Visit ranchobernardoinn.com/dine/avant.

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.