San Diego Restaurant Week 2017 - Girl Scouts cookie-off and event info

Date: 
01/15/2017 - 11:00am to 01/22/2017 - 11:00pm

San Diego Restaurant Week is back for 2017 and runs from Sunday January 15 until Sunday January 22! Participating restaurants offer 2 course lunches for either $10, $15 or $20 and 3 course dinners for $20, $30, $40 or $50. It's always a great way to sample the menu at a discounted price!

This year, some participating restaurants's have incorporated Girl Scout Cookies into their SDRW menu to celebrate a century of these famous cookies being sold! Another perk of this partnership... local girl scouts were paired with fabulous female chefs around San Diego in a special "cookie-off" competition!  I sure wish I had this kind of opportunity when I was in a troop!

Sea180 Sous Chef Jennifer with Girl Scouts Kayla and Roni

Sous Chef Jennifer Chan from Sea180 with Girl Scouts Kayla and Roni.

Do-Si-Dos Peanut Butter S'mores Pie dessert by Sea180

These were the Do-Si-Dos Peanut Butter S'mores Pie dessert created by Sea180. Each Girl Scout helped the chef prepare the samples and we (as the lucky guests of this media event) could vote on our favorite! 

shortbread sesame crusted ahi from Blue Point Coastal Cuisine

This sample from Blue Point Coastal Cuisine won the popular vote! There were THREE items, shortbread seasame crusted ahi (using Trefoils), Lemon Pepper Shrimp (using Savannah Smile), and Asian Slaw with Peanut Sauce (using Do-Si-Dos).

Blue Point Coastal Cuisine Sous Chef Kristina Killian, Girl Scout Savannah and team

Congratulations to Sous Chef Kristina Killian, Girl Scout Savannah, and the rest of the team on your win!

lamb sliders from Tidal using Samoas Girl Scout Cookies   Samoas Chocolate Bar from Pacific Standard Coastal Kitchen

The other savory dish at the cookie-off was this Lamb Slider from Tidal's Chef de Partie Moira Hill. It incorporated Samoas into the demi sauce and used a tomato chutney with Savannah Smiles.

 Pacific Standard Coastal Kitchen executive chef Giselle Wellman, pastry chef Kaitlyn Dashnaw and girl scout Ana and Briony made Samoas Chocolate Bars!

1500 Ocean bruleed yuzu tart   orange panna cotta from Solare

Bruleed yuzu tart from 1500 Ocean; Orange Panna Cotta from Solare

Caramel Coconut Crema from Puesto   cupcakes from Rustic Root

Caramel Coconut Crema from Puesto used Samoas chocolate crujido and mocha sauce; Cupcakes from Rustic Root (didn't catch the description, sorry)

Pistachio Chocolate Marquise from Great Maple   Samoa Cheesecake from Island Prime C Level

Pistachio Chocolate Marquise from Great Maple was a rich dark chocolate mousse with a crust of thin mints and pistachios, served with vanilla bean creme anglaise and a sprinkling of candied pistachio dust; Samoa Cheesecake from C Level & Island Prime was a coconut cheesecake with crumbled Samoa cookies and caramel in a flaky chocolate crust.

Samoas Bar from Bali Hai   Troop Leader with tagalong layer cake from Tom Han's Lighthouse

Samoas Bar from Bali Hai had vanilla shortbread, banana caramel and coconut mousse, mocha glaze, white chocolate feuillitene crunch and orange zest meringue; Troop Leader featured tagalong in a layered cake was from Tom Han's Lighthouse

Snake Oil Cocktail Co. representative   Snake Oil Cocktail Co drinks paired with girl scout cookies

We even got to have some drinks from Snake Oil Cocktails Co. that were paired with Girl Scout cookies! The drinks were not in the competition though!

If you're interested in trying one of these Girl Scout inspired treats, check out the list of restaurants on the Girl Scouts website here: http://www.sdgirlscouts.org/en/events/event-list/SDRW.html.

The full list of SDRW participants is here: http://www.sandiegorestaurantweek.com/restaurants/

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Soo@hungryones.com's picture
Submitted by Soo@hungryones.com (not verified) on Sun, 01/15/2017 - 7:39am

That event had some great snacks! Wish they would have had some thin mints.

lynn's picture
Submitted by lynn on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 11:16am

thin mints are my favorite! i found a recipe on a homemade version that i want to try this year.

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