SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A Texas-based restaurant and bar is coming to the waterfront in downtown San Diego and will offer indoor and outdoor seating and live indoor music performances after the Port approved a lease agreement with the company. This will be The Rustic’s first location in California.
With locations in Houston and Dallas, The Rustic is coming to San Diego in the former Joe’s Crab Shack location along the Embarcadero with construction slated to begin sometime in the next two years as long as all the terms of the lease are met, the Port announced.
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The 9,000 square-foot building has a wrap-around patio, a boat dock and 56 parking spaces, and was formerly the historic San Diego Rowing Club, built in 1900.
The bar and restaurant will offer indoor and outdoor seating, live indoor music, including its popular Jam & Toast family-style brunch that includes communal dining and live acoustic performances, along with American food dishes, craft beers, wine and cocktails. The Port says boaters can also dock and dine at the site on the Embarcadero.
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The Rustic is a dining and entertainment brand by Free Range Holdings, LLC, which operates four The Rustic restaurants in Texas, including the flagship location in Houston adjacent to the Houston Convention Center.
The Port of San Diego said The Rustic still has to satisfy the preconditions of the Option to Lease Agreement before they are issued the lease, which includes securing project financing, obtaining construction and project permits, providing a construction contract and completing a parking study and management plan…