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Merk No More: Brick + Mortar at Keating Hotel

Posted On : 10/15/2012 by Keli Dailey

The August episode was memorable, because the chef collapsed from over-stress.

 

With cameras rolling for "Hotel Hell," a Fox show where Gordon Ramsay revamps dysfunctional businesses, the Merk Bistro chef flops to the floor, saying the pressures of running the red-bricked restaurant inside the Keating Hotel were too great.

 

Someone took notice. Of those brick walls...Broseph’s Restaurant Group. Owners of the Santa Monica-based Brick+Mortar, they saw the architectural bones of the Merk and thought it would fit with their industrial chic, small-plates-and-short-rib-pizzas concept.

 

On Sept. 26 of this year, a month after "Hotel Hell" featured the Merk drama, the space reopened as San Diego's first Brick+Mortar.

 

Located at 820 Fifth Ave. in the Gaslamp Quarter, the menu is expected to veer a bit from the Santa Monica offerings. And get more upscale. Salads (see the cantaloupe and green fig salads), shares (crab cakes and mussels), pizzas and mains (filet mignon; fried chicken and waffles).

 

Right now it's open for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.

 

Read Keli Dailey's full story and more on utsandiego.com

 

 

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