The Green Flash Supper Club is a series of dinner and beer pairings that take place in our tasting room. We partner with culinary masters from San Diego to craft five course menus that show off each chef’s personal style of cuisine and then, our Vice President of Hospitality and Certified Cicerone, Dave Adams, thoughtfully pairs the lineup with beers from Green Flash. The result is an exemplary dining experience. Get tickets here!
About El Jardín
In late spring 2018, chef Claudette Zepeda-Wilkins and Rise & Shine Restaurant Group open El Jardín at Liberty Station in the Point Loma community. Inspired by the flavors Zepeda experienced growing up between San Diego, Tijuana and Guadalajara, as well as during her travels throughout Mexico, the menu at El Jardín spotlights Zepeda’s nuanced approach to regional Mexican cuisine, refined and reinterpreted with local ingredients. Rise & Shine founder Johan Engman and Zepeda collaborated closely on the restaurant’s design to bring their shared vision of El Jardín to life through bold pieces and accents throughout the expansive indoor and outdoor spaces that recall the restaurant’s culinary heritage.
El Jardín strives to honor both the diverse cultures that have lent a hand in shaping the seven regions of Mexican cuisine, as well as the ancestral recipes created and shared by matriarchs throughout history.
About Chef Claudette Zepeda-Wilkins
Claudette Zepeda-Wilkins is the executive chef/partner at El Jardín, a regional Mexican restaurant in San Diego, California. Inspired by the diversity of cuisine in Mexico, where her passion for food was first cultivated, El Jardín is an expression of Zepeda’s culinary journey as a chef. Born in the U.S. and raised between Tijuana and San Diego, Zepeda credits the confluence of flavors and ingredients she was exposed to while spending time with family in Tijuana and Guadalajara, including her aunt Lorenza who owned her own restaurant, as paving the way for her eventual career.
Prior to El Jardín, Zepeda was chef de cuisine at Javier Plascencia’s celebrated Bracero in San Diego’s Little Italy. During her tenure, Bracero was recognized as a 2016 James Beard Best New Restaurant semifinalist and included on Eater’s 2016 Best New Restaurants in America list. Zepeda’s culinary resume also includes time spent alongside chef Gavin Kaysen at his former San Diego restaurant, El Bizcocho.
Doors open at 7:00 pm and dinner begins at 7:30 pm. No early entry allowed. Please arrive on time.