The twice-yearly event designed to connect current and future residents to other La Jolla community members toasted its third edition with champagne.
With a champagne toast, La Jolla 101 marked one year since inception April 10 at Pacific Sotheby’s on Prospect Street, with attendees applauding the community events, philanthropies and businesses highlighted.
The biannual event, founded by real estate broker Amber Anderson, is “all about being a resource for the people that live here, that are looking to move here,” she said. “You’re able to plug in all that makes La Jolla shine.”
La Jolla 101 events allow people to “come and taste all that La Jolla has to offer. … But most importantly, it’s about its people. It’s about connection.”
The third iteration of La Jolla 101 (it’s held in spring and fall) began with a mingling of attendees with bites and sips from Queenstown Village, Smallgoods Cheese Shop & Cafe, LJ Crafted Wines and more, along with photos with the La Jolla 101 mascot “Sunny the Seal” in celebration of anniversary.
Participants then listened to presentations from about 17 local businesses and organizations including La Valencia Hotel, La Jolla Historical Society and Promises2Kids.
La Jolla is “the community that we live in, that we love and that we cherish,” said Jules Wilson in presenting her forthcoming restaurant, RoseAcre, set to open on Girard Avenue this summer.
Wilson and partner Paul Basile, who designed popular San Diego restaurants Born & Raised, Morning Glory and Raised By Wolves, will bring “design, creativity and cuisine” to the community, Wilson said.
With a nod to Adelaide’s, the decades-long floral shop that used to occupy RoseAcre’s Girard space before moving to Silverado Street, the new eatery will feature a “midcentury-inspired design that plays into the history of La Jolla [while] also moving La Jolla forward,” Wilson said.
The food in the main restaurant (there will also be a coffee shop, omakase sushi bar and bar) will be “La Jolla cuisine,” Wilson said, which is “fresh fish and farm forward.”
La Jolla’s community is what has kept the annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance coming back for 19 years, said event Chair Michael Dorvillier.
The three-day classic car event, which returns to La Jolla April 25-27, brings car enthusiasts to La Jolla, which “in turn helps our community, helps our restaurants, our merchants,” he said. “It helps everybody around here.”
“It’s really unique to be the living room of a community,” La Valencia General Manager Troy Longwith said of the historic hotel, which will celebrate 100 years in 2026. “It’s something I don’t take for granted, knowing that this place means a lot to a lot of different people.”
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