Rooftop Cocktail Bar and Restaurant Coco Maya Opens in Little Italy | Eater San Diego

"Set in the former Prepkitchen space above India Street, I found it opened up to San Diego sunshine with a rooftop dining deck and a 30' by 30' skylight arching over the central cocktail bar. Pulling references from the Yucatan Peninsula and the Caribbean, the menu is built around shareable proteins cooked over quebracho coals in a Josper oven — examples include a prime 24-ounce tomahawk ribeye and a 1-pound slab of locally-caught swordfish. Informed by executive chef Ricardo Heredia’s regional travels, other dishes include salt fish fritters, conch with caviar, and his take on cochinita pibil, interpreted as a slow-roasted suckling pig served in a clay pot that gets cracked tableside and accompanied by pickled red onion, black bean purée, and handmade tortillas. Seafood is sourced from the Tuna Harbor Dockside Market for plates like Venus clams in tomato coconut broth and a whole charcoal-grilled local rockfish; the menu will change frequently and Heredia plans to introduce four- and six-course chef’s tastings. Brunch (launching this weekend) will feature sweet and savory Dutch baby pancakes and bokits — Guadeloupe fry-bread sandwiches stuffed with fillings from jerk chicken to scrambled eggs — while Rob McShea’s cocktail list centers on tropical drinks based on rum and agave spirits. Coco Maya is at 1660 India Street and is open at 2 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday." - Candice Woo