Seneca's

11/14/2025

In case of rain, seek carbs.

12/24/2023

Taking a mini holiday hibernation this Christmas Eve (okay, we’re just closed). But fear not, our doors will be wide open on Christmas Day, eager to celebrate with you in all the ways. All venues at The LaFayette, including Beginner's Diner, The Gutter, and Quixote, are open on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

11/22/2023

Our doors may be shut for Thanksgiving Day, but The LaFayette's arms will be wide open.

12/26/2022

As Seneca, our patron thinker, once said “Life, if well lived, is long enough.” We can’t help but reflect about the year we’ve lived as it winds down, and this is one of our proudest moments of 2022. Thanks to for showing off our good side and to all of you for loving carbs.

11/18/2022

Heinkel Cabin Cruiser, 1956. Possibly fueled by Pesto Gnocchi.

09/20/2022

Closed for lunch. Open for sunset. We’ll reopen our doors at 4:30pm today, just in time for those Golden Hour, 19th floor views.

09/10/2022

Registration for classes may have ended but Underbelly UCSD is about to be in session—and we’re hiring. Want to enroll? Join us in-person or send your resume to [email protected]

08/15/2022

Today’s announcement is one of the favorites we’ve made in a long while. The passion one. The giddy one. ⁠
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SDM and CH Projects have started a book club. Because we love the almighty profanity out of books, and no one ever died thinking, "I should've read less." ⁠
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We’re partnering with some of San Diego’s great independent bookstores, hoping our literary scheme will drive you into their lovely arms. Indie bookstores are the marrow in a city’s bones. Sentence churches. Long thoughts from thinkers. Ray Bradbury’s in there. Toni Morrison, too. Vonnegut, Didion, some unfamous person who wrote like a hurricane for one book and then vanished, great voices the world hasn’t yet discovered. ⁠
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In a modern age where we do what the bloop and bleep tells us, books are Airbnbs for your brain. ⁠
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We are not above bribery to do our part in this book revolution. If you join our club, and show proof that you bought it from a participating local, indie bookstore—each month we’ll randomly select one member to get a $300 gift card to any of the  locations (Craft & Commerce, Seneca, Born & Raised, Ironside, Neighborhood, etc.). ⁠
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Keep your eyes on the next issue of San Diego Mag (September) for the first book. A book that altered us in weird and great ways. ⁠
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In coming months, we’ll beautify your feed with bookstore glamour shots. But for now, here are the bookstores that we’ve partnered with: ⁠
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📍The Book Catapult 📸 ⁠
📍Verbatim Books .books 📸 ⁠
📍Warwick’s 📸 ⁠
📍La Playa Books 
📍Diesel Books 
📍Bay Books Coronado 
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Email [email protected] to join the club and get the full list of participating stores. And if you own a bookstore and would like to join us, reach out.

07/25/2022

Something new is coming, to the Seneca patio.

03/20/2022

12/30/2021

Warmth by the fire and stacks on stacks of prawns is how we like to winter 👌