Chef Quinnton 'Q' Austin created the menus at both Q&A Restaurant and Oyster Bar and the Cococabana rooftop bar at the new Brick Hotel in Oceanside
Up until September, North County residents who wanted a taste of chef Quinnton “Q” Austin’s authentic Creole and Cajun food had to drive to his North Park restaurant, Louisiana Purchase.
Since the New Orleans-trained chef moved to San Diego in 2018 to open Louisiana Purchase, he has been attracting diners from as far away as Los Angeles for his uptown gumbo, fried chicken, lemon pepper catfish and shrimp and grits. But in September, Austin — as executive chef for San Diego’s Grind and Prosper Hospitality Group — opened the Creole- and Cajun-themed Q&A Restaurant and Oyster Bar at the new three-story Brick Hotel in downtown Oceanside.
Q&A, a play on Austin’s initials, serves many of the same New Orleans-inspired dishes you’ll find at Louisiana Purchase, but with slightly different preparations and ingredients. Q&A also offers an extensive oyster menu and a full bar.Austin has created a lighter, tropical and Caribbean-inspired menu for the Brick Hotel’s rooftop bar, Cococabana, which opened in August. Cococabana also serves a weekend brunch.
The Brick Hotel is one of only three surviving brick buildings that were erected in Oceanside in the 1880s. Built originally as a two-story building by John Franklin Schuyler in 1888, the building housed a hardware store with a meeting room on the second floor. In 2017, Tom Aldrich bought the building, spent years restoring and renovating it, and then reopened it last year as a 10-room boutique hotel.
: 4-10 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays. Noon.-11 p.m. Fridays. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays: Q&A: 688-7249. Cococabana: 688-0195
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