A Showcase for Smoked Meat and Smoked Cocktails Opens at the Hotel del Coronado | Eater San Diego

"Opening Friday, July 14 at the Hotel del Coronado, I learned this 157-seat restaurant and bar revives a nearly 100-year-old laundry building that once operated a fleet of five laundry trucks around the island. Restored in 2021 as part of the Del’s $400 million redevelopment, the original brickwork was unearthed, the steam-powered conveyor system preserved, and a wooden bar dating to the 1880s was sourced from a shuttered Pennsylvania hotel to add vintage character. The indoor dining room includes two private rooms, while the kitchen—a smoker and a stationary food truck on the lawn near outdoor seating—will turn out brisket, pulled pork, ribs, and organic chicken with sauce choices like Carolina-style, peach mop, and a house-fermented hot sauce, and will also smoke vegetables such as heirloom carrots and slow-baked butternut squash. Open daily at 4 p.m., the concept even incorporates smoke into cocktails: the Sun Faded mixes bourbon rye, orange, lemon, triple sec, and apricot puree and is topped with an edible bubble of rosemary-infused smoke, while the Smokehouse cocktail blends whiskey, Aperol, and lemon and is served covered with a cherry-wood smoker." - Candice Woo