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Decoy Dockside Dining Brings a Big-Name Chef to San Marcos

Inland North County gets a JRDN alum cooking elk, fish, and more

By Troy Johnson September 23, 2016

Decoy Dockside Dining Brings a Big-Name Chef to San Marcos — Photo by Sam Wells

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Inland North County has been chef-deprived since the dawn of suburbia. But the food revolution is trickling yonder, most notably with the new Decoy Dockside Dining at Lakehouse Hotel & Resort. Brought to you by Eat.Drink.Sleep. (JRDN), Decoy overlooks Lake San Marcos and boasts former JRDN chef Danilo Tangalin.

The 8,000-square-foot second-floor dining room will do great-outdoors fare like game (elk osso bucco) and freshwater fish (brown butter trout), while the casual all-day Dock Bar downstairs has burgers, pizzas, ostrich empanadas, and craft cocktails and beer. San Diegans don’t often put “gourmet” and “wakeboarding” in the same sentence. Maybe it’s about time.