Sky Deck at Del Mar Highlands Town Center
Restaurant · San Diego ·
Global food hall with 9 kitchens, cocktail bar, and beer garden
Global food hall with 9 kitchens, cocktail bar, and beer garden
"At the Sky Deck, Ethan Yang operates Glass Box, a Japanese spot that is one of the original anchors of the food collective and has made him a familiar face there." - Helen I. Hwang
"At the Sky Deck location I learned Glass Box is running an online silent auction via GoFundMe through September 1 with all donations directed to the Hawai‘i Community Foundation; the highest donor will receive an exclusive 8-course omakase dinner prepared in their own home by the Glass Box culinary team. The restaurant is also donating 15 percent of all sales from August 18 to September 1 to the Hawai‘i Community Foundation and is offering a complimentary appetizer to customers who show proof of their own donation to the foundation." - Candice Woo
"I watched the Sky Deck at the Del Mar Highlands Town Center open in June as a 26,700-square-foot, two-level space with nine restaurants, dedicated seating for each tenant, a cocktail bar called Understory, and a beer garden with local brewers, offering everything from pizza and pastries to ramen, Greek street food, and Thai cuisine." - Candice Woo
"Operating since late May on the upper level, the outdoor Brewer’s Deck offers some of the Sky Deck’s only communal seating, with 18-tap bars supplied by Miramar’s Rough Draft Brewing, Oceanside’s Northern Pine, and Chula Vista’s Boochcraft Hard Kombucha, and it also offers delivery via the Sky Deck app of select dishes from on-site restaurants." - Candice Woo
"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