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04/22/2025
This Earth Day we are proud to present Californios’ Sustainability Pledge. This pledge is a promise to our guests, and more importantly to ourselves that what we do in our restaurant has value and meaning.
Sourcing our cuisine from as locally as possible makes our experience completely unique. Our job is to enhance the already amazing ingredients that our local farmers and purveyors provide to us.
Minimizing waste is something that any good kitchen practices. But post processing is just as important.
Sustainability is also important in context of our team. If we don’t treat each other with respect in the kitchen, there will be no one to carry on this legacy. By creating a Professional kitchen, we encourage the next generation of chefs.
Lastly having a real impact in our community gives meaning to our work and to our lives. It is not enough to just source good ingredients. A wise chef once reminded me that, All ingredients come from a farm. Californios has put in work to raise money for causes that we believe in, including Meals on Wheels and LA Fire Relief.
We are glad to share these pledges and hope that other organizations will use this as framework for their own sustainable future.
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03/09/2025
Celebrating the Women that make Californios so special!
We are thankful to have these incredible Women leading our team!
03/07/2025
An incredible showing from the Californios, Restaurant Nisei, and Bar Iris teams at our ‘Carlito’s Fish Tacos’ pop up, benefiting LA Fire Relief. We are so proud to have raised over $10,000.00 dollars to help hospitality professionals affected by the LA Fires, via Restaurants Care!
Thank you to everyone who donated their time and effort, and to all our friends our supported us. Thank you so much to our purveyors for sponsoring our efforts, Four Star Seafood, Monterrey Fish Market, Suntory Global Spirits, and American Unagi!
We are dedicated to taking an active role in our community and making real contributions to our local environment.
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02/13/2025
We wanted to take a moment to highlight our Pastry Chef at Californios, Kelli Huerta.
Kelli has been a part of our team since we reopened in our 11th Street space, in 2021. Although her background was in pastry, when she started at Californios there was not room on our pastry team, so she decided to work her way through our savory line. As a young chef, she showed an incredible amount of determination and grit as she learned many skills and proved herself on our hotline.
She has since taken control of the pastry program at Californios and has done an amazing job focusing on the Mexican flavors that she grew up with.
We are so glad to have her as a leader on our team and hope that you are able to try some of her creations at Californios!
02/03/2025
Only a Few Tables Remain for Our Collaboration at Californios with Restaurant Fauna This Week!
February 5th and 6th, 2025 at Californios
Californios is honored to welcome Chef David Castro Hussong and his partner Maribel Aldaco, of Restaurant Fauna, to Californios for a continuation of The Best Mexican Chefs in the World collaboration series! We are proud to partner with Reserva de la Familia, rooted in more than 250 years of Tequila tradition and the official Tequila partner of the Michelin Guide U.S., and the 1 Hotel San Francisco to welcome these amazing chefs!
The chefs and their team will be at Californios for two nights only, sharing their unique vision of Mexican cuisine. We hope you can join us for this once in a lifetime experience!
Chef David Castro Hussong and pastry chef Maribel Aldaco Silva opened Fauna in 2017 after working and travelling around the world. Castro was born and raised in Ensenada and had always dreamed that one day he’d pay homage to the ingredients of his hometown and its surrounding region. Today, the couple creates daily-changing experimental menus using exclusively seasonal and local ingredients.
Fauna is currently listed as the No.17 Best Restaurant in Latin America by the World’s 50 Best. In 2023, Maribel was named the Best Pastry Chef in Latin America!
Together they operate several MICHELIN Guide U.S. Recognized restaurants including El Tigre Silencio in Ciudad Mexico and Bruma Wine Garden in Valle de Guadalupe.
*Limited Dietary accommodations can be made for this dinner.*
We are so thrilled to host these amazing chefs at Californios and hope you are able to join us!
11/20/2024
Sometimes you just need a martini. 🍸
Our Californios Martini is the perfect balance of dirty, smoky, and ice cold. Served with three habanero olives and finished with a chile morita oil, it may be the best martini of all time.
We hope to see you soon. ¡Salud!
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10/03/2024
🥂💀✨We are very excited to announce our Día De Mu***os party, celebrating the release of our Single Barrel Tequila with El Tesoro!
Last May, Chef Val and Louis Pedroza were invited to travel to Guadalajara to select a single barrel of Tequila from El Tesoro’s legendary distillery.
After a private tour with El Tesoro Heiress and operator, Jenny Camarena, they were able to taste through many different tequilas and selected a beautiful and complex barrel of Tequila to be imported, only for Californios.
We are excited to welcome Jenny to Californios for this incredibly special celebration.
Tuesday, October 22nd!
This will be unlike any other Californios event - we will have mariachis, live music, face painting artists, canapés, cocktails, and caviar from Tsar Nicoulai!
There will be no seated courses and each guest will receive three drink tickets and be able to sample different expressions of El Tesoro.
Each guest will receive one bottle of our Californios El Tesoro barrel, included in the ticket price! 🥂💀✨
09/29/2024
Today we celebrate Chef Emilie Van D**e on her last day with us at Californios. She joined the team in 2018 and has served as the Chef de Cuisine at Californios for the last three years.
She has been a great leader of our team and one of the best chefs we have worked with. We are so thankful for all the contributions she has made for us and for our guests. Her tireless work ethic and positive attitude has been an inspiration for us to admire.
Chef Emilie has cemented her legacy as a great leader and amazing chef at Californios. We will miss her presence at Californios, but we look forward to watching her continue to inspire!
08/29/2024
We are so excited to host Chef Lucho Martinez at Californios this next week, 9/4 and 9/5! His unique expression of Mexican cuisine earned Em Restaurant, a star in the Michelin Guide for Mexico!
We have been following him for a long time and are honored to have him cook with us. Please join us to experience his cuisine a special menu from the Californios team!
03/20/2024
Californios is extremely proud to announce that we will be hosting Chef Francisco Ruano of restaurant Alcalde for a very special collaboration dinner!
Alcalde has been open for 10 years in Guadalajara and has established itself as one of the best Mexican restaurants in the world. They have been named the Number 37 Best Restaurant in Latin America for 2023 and Number 51 on the World’s Best Restaurants List by San Pellegrino.
Chef Ruano is bringing some of his signature dishes, as well as rare and seasonal fruits and vegetables to share with us from Guadalajara. The Californios team will be debuting several special dishes to pair alongside Chef Ruano’s cuisine.
We are honored to welcome Chef Ruano and his team to cook with us at Californios. We hope you are able to join us for this dinner as we welcome One of the Best Mexican Chefs in the World.
There are a very limited amount of reservations available for this once in a lifetime event. Link in Bio.
03/09/2024
We are so fortunate to have some of the most amazing team of Women Leaders at Californios! Their grace, hard work, and positive energy are the reasons we have such an amazing team!
¡Feliz Día de la Mujer!
02/02/2024
Celebrating 9 years of operating in San Francisco, California!
What a dream it has been. Thankful to all of you that have supported us along the way. 🥂✨🌉
01/25/2024
We are proud to share with you our Rockfish Zarandeado Verde! The Chilipepper Rockfish is brought in, by a couple fishing boats, especially for us from Bodega Bay. We apply a delicious green paste on the fish before grilling it over charcoal. We serve it with fresh tortillas, beans from Tierra Vegetables, herbs from the Garden at Meadowood, and three salsas!
This presentation is a celebration of the Bay Area and also the most fun way to end the experience at Californios!
09/12/2021
Flower Arrangement by, Carolyn Cantú. Celebrating her today, on her Birthday! Her magic can be seen all around Californios. Beautiful vase by Erin Hupp and amazing photos by Adahlia Cole.
09/08/2021
Grinding Cónico Azul on the Molinito. 💙
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