Multi-Restaurant Sky Deck Sets Opening Date at Del Mar Highlands Town Center | Eater San Diego

"At Del Mar Highlands Town Center, I learned that the Sky Deck is a two-level, 26,700-square-foot food hall scheduled to open to the public on June 11; it can hold about 1,000 people at full capacity across 13 distinct food and beverage venues and should be fully activated by mid-July. It was a years-long passion project for developer Pat Donahue, who even traveled to Spain with architecture firm RDC to research Barcelona’s El Nacional, but rather than one operator running multiple concepts, the Sky Deck is composed of independently run restaurants each with its own 1,500-square-foot footprint and separate seating instead of communal tables. The design leans maritime, featuring a 100-foot-long mural and custom art installations intended to let each tenant keep an individual style within a cohesive space, and the developers deliberately avoided signing chains, national brands, or fast-food operators because they want the space to serve both local office lunch crowds and nearby residents seeking a date-night destination." - Candice Woo