Recently it was my pleasure to meet with a most charming lady, Andrea Martinez, who is the talented chef responsible not only for our delicious breakfast croissants, but for each and every dessert we enjoy at lunch and dinner.
She is a native of Switzerland who is a graduate of the Culinary Arts Institute there. She has always loved traveling, so she decided to apply for a position that was advertised through Rolling Pin Magazine. She was hired as a traditional chef at the Swiss Stubli, in Beaver, Colorado. The owners were also Swiss. It was there that she met her future husband, Greg, a native Californian. She, Greg and their son Jayden moved to Carlsbad, where Andrea was employed by Vigiluccis for a year as chef. She later worked here at LCG as well as at Cal-A-Vie in Vista. Chef Steven Wright, coaxed her to return to LCG to head the pastry team. The four-person pastry team is responsible for Monterey, Avalon and Health Center cuisine.
Andrea and Greg in recent years have added a daughter, Kaya, who is now four years old. She is a very busy person as she starts her day here at 4 a.m. to prepare our delicacies. She aims to please us, and please us, she does.