Part 4 of Eater San Diego’s year end restaurant wrap-up asks local food media to identify the saddest restaurant closures of 2016: http://sandiego.eater.com/2016/12/28/14106328/san-diego-saddest-restaurant-closure-of-2016
My answer: “One of the first restaurant closings of 2016 was, for me, one of the saddest: Acqua Al 2. Chef Martin Gonzales sold his outpost of the Florentine original after a fifteen year run – success in just about anyone’s book – and only three months after closing his other restaurant, East Village’s Toast Enoteca. The only thing good to come out of it has yet to drop: his next restaurant.”