Downtown San Diego’s Lionfish Restaurant To Launch New Menu On March 1st

  • Seafood, Sushi Bar, Cocktail
  • San Diego
  • $$$

Lionfish Restaurant, located in the Gaslamp Quarter at the Pendry San Diego, will debut a newly revamped dinner menu on March 1st.

Lionfish Restaurant new menu

Casual, yet complex

The menu, featuring both sustainable fresh-catch seafood and prime meats, toys with guest’s tastebuds with its casual, yet complex offerings – all prepared with innovative twists by executive chef and James Beard Smart Catch leader, JoJo Ruiz.

New menu highlights at Lionfish Restaurtant include:

Lionfish restaurant 
Truffle Fried Chicken & Waffles

Truffle Fried Chicken & Waffles made with Korean hot chicken, mochi waffles, truffle butter, house hot sauce and smoked maple.

Lionfish Restaurant rolls

New specialty rolls including the Bonecrusha made with King Crab, Tuna Toro, caviar, crispy shoe strings, white truffle shoyu and bone marrow butter.

And the Geisha with Kampachi, spicy tuna, avocado, BuBu Arare, Gobo, shisho, red kosho aioli and white yuzu ponzu.

Lamp lollipop

Lamb Lollipop Anticucho with miso sauce, chives and mustard frill.

King Crab Dynamite

King Crab Dynamite with pickled peppers, grilled lime and cilantro.

Lionfish Restaurant new menu

Bacon Wrapped Bacon “BLT”, Surf & Surf and Swordfish Al Pastor Robatas.

striploin dish

And a 180oz (whoa!) Prime KC Cut Striploin “Oscar” crusted with Blue Crab and served with butter braised asparagus and Tarragon Bearnaise.

See you there

Lionfish restaurant is located at 435 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA 92101.

For more info and update, visit the website here and follow them on Instagram and Facebook.

See you there, San Diego!

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