Awards & Accolades

Whether it's a reader's choice award or being inducted into the Hall of Fame, we're constantly humbled by the recognition we receive on a local and national level.

National Accolades

San Diego Picks

Coastal Living Magazine 04/01/11

Food Network's "The Best Thing I Ever Ate"

Food Network 01/01/11 -- Chef Trey Foshee's reinvented "fish tacos" at California Modern caught the attention of HGTV Host Aaron Sanchez, who featured the unique dish on "The Best Thing I Ever Ate."

World's Hottest Rooftop Restaurants

Travel + Leisure 05/01/11
The View: Diners gaze out at Scripps Park and the northern San Diego coastline to the crashing Pacific beyond. Whatever the season, you can hear the squeals of swimmers at La Jolla Beach Cove below.

The Food: Trey Foshee crafts seasonal dishes in line with the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s list of sustainable seafood. Favorites include ancho chile shrimp tacos with mango salsa and jalapeño-lime crème fraîche ($13).

Tip: There’s not much to see once darkness falls, so come for brunch or an early dinner. Keep an eye out for dolphins, seals, and, from January through March, the added treat of migrating whales.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-hottest-rooftop-restaurants/9

Golden Dish Award

GQ Magazine

America's Ten Best Chefs

Food & Wine Magazine

Most Popular Restaurant in San Diego

Zagat Survey (2007, 2008, 2009)

Award of Excellence

Wine Spectator

Gourmet Magazine picks George's for "Where to eat right now..."

Gourmet Magazine 2004 Restaurant Guide: San Diego Where to eat right now in 30 American cities

It's a little like the chicken-and-egg conundrum: Would Trey Foshee of George's at the Cove be the same chef without Chino Farms? Would the extraordinary produce the Chinos grow taste so profound in someone else's hands?

This much is clear: Together, the chef and the farmer create sublime moments in George's formal Ocean View Room, which recently underwent an elegant face lift for its 20th birthday. Consider the beyond-succulent prime short ribs with mustard greens and spring onions; the beautiful ragout of spring vegetables with troll-caught king salmon; and an anything-but-ordinary carrot cake with candied Chino carrots. From the "Chino Farms Vegetable Preparations" on the menu, you can order roasted new potatoes "unearthed this morning" and the sweetest white and yellow corn on the planet — and you should. San Diegans have always thought of George's as the city's big-deal restaurant. Now that the food soars, it really is.

NRN Fine Dining Hall of Fame

Nation's Restaurant News

http://www.allbusiness.com/food-beverage/restaurants-food-service/10622944-1.html

AAA Four Diamond Award

(2001-2010) George's California Modern received the 2010 AAA Four Diamond Award for its tenth year, one of only 32 restaurants in Southern California. "North America's AAA Diamond Rating System is a long-time trusted method of rating lodgings and dining establishments," said the Auto Club's Approved Accommodations Supervisor Patricia Marenco. "Southern California's hotels and restaurants that earn the AAA Four Diamond award maintain a very high standard of service in their hotels and restaurants in order to continue pleasing their guests."

Trey Foshee Named One of America's Best New Chefs

Food & Wine Magazine (1998)

Distinguished Restaurants of North America

(DiRONA)

Local Accolades

Best American (Ocean Terrace)

La Jolla Light (2011)

Best American

San Diego Union-Tribune (2011)

Best First Date Bars

San Diego Magazine - San Diego Magazine's picks for romantic restaurants (Best of San Diego 2011)

Most Romantic

San Diego Union-Tribune (2011)

Silver Fork Awards (California Modern)

San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles -- Best Special Occasion (2011)

Favorite Dining Patios

San Diego Reader -- Favorite dining patio picks (2011)

Golden Medallion: Best American (Ocean Terrace)

California Restaurant Association (2011)

#1 - Best Restaurant (Ocean Terrace)

North County Times (2011)

City's Best Views

944 Magazine -- City's Best View (2011)

Super Diners' Favorite Views

San Diego Union-Tribune (2011)

A-List Dining Guide

San Diego Metropolitan Magazine (2011)

Best Restaurant: View (Ocean Terrace)

Ranch & Coast Magazine (2011)

Best Outdoor Dining (Ocean Terrace)

San Diego Home & Garden Readers' Choice Awards 05/01/09 George's at the Cove was voted San Diego's favorite place to take out-of-town guests and the Ocean Terrace took top honors for outdoor dining in the 2009 San Diego Home & Garden Readers' Choice Awards.

Best Chef/Trey Foshee

2009 San Diego Magazine Editor's picks

Trey Foshee Named to Inaugural Chefs Hall of Fame

San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles 12/01/09 – Named one of three local chefs by a group is his peers, Trey Foshee was inducted into the Chefs Hall of Fame. Read all about it in the December 2009 issue of San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles (see pdf) and view Trey's Chefs Hall of Fame interview with Joe Lizura on KUSI.

san-diego-chefs-hall-of-fame.pdf

Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

Best Proposal Spot

Citysearch - Best of Citysearch

http://sandiego.citysearch.com/bestof/winners/proposal_spot

Best Dining With A View (California Modern)

2009 San Diego Magazine Critic's picks 08/03/09

Best Dining With A View (Ocean Terrace)

2009 San Diego Magazine Editor's picks 02/01/09

Best Service, Best Dining With A View

2009 San Diego Magazine Reader's Poll