Colleen Kelly
Lucia Restaurant & Bar, 415 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley
(831) 298-5389, bernarduslodge.com
Local honey and hand-picked thyme. We’re guessing pastry. Fresh-squeezed lemon juice, egg white and thyme from the garden. Hmm – a meringue? Honey from nearby hives and Meyer lemons, just harvested from the grove outside. It’s for a sponge cake. What? We’re zero for three? Enough of this guessing game! All are ingredients for cocktails at Lucia Restaurant & Bar in the Bernardus Lodge, where Colleen Kelly and her team pick herbs, vegetables and fruits on the property. The honey comes from the resort’s hives. And these ingredients are crafted into some of the most impressive cocktails around. That’s farm to barstool. And it doesn’t get cooler than that.
