Colonial Spanish Inspired Cuisine
Tami’s cuisine style, yet to be categorized in the cookbook shelves at Barnes & Nobles is “Cal-Spanish”. Her goal with the food and wine served is to subliminally connect her guests to the rich culinary and wine history of California, especially the Colonial Spanish period. She hopes her guest will someday appreciate that the land where there homes are, were once the barren Spanish outpost of California that the Friars converted into the world’s most bountiful agricultural harvests and livestock ranges.
Not only did Padre Serra cultivate the land with produce, he established the first vineyards and vinted the first wine – right here at Mission San Diego. For his contributions to the wine industry of California that he created, he is given the title of the ‘the Father of California Wine’. The restaurant Friars Folly is so named in recognition of him and the other Friars that created much of the California culture still visible to us today and for her imagination that the Friars enjoyed a bit of fun and foolishness (Folly) in the Mission wine cellars.
The Franciscan padres were obsessed with wine making and left an indelible mark in California that we enjoy today for all the missions are surrounded by wineries and some of the best wines in the world at the time. The missions serve today as Padre Serra intended--a place to gather, to enjoy, to appreciate, and to give thanks. Friars Folly's goal is to carry on the mission spirit today.
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