And don’t worry if you have only a gas grill - or no grill. Wise has given us three recipes that are easy to prepare, taste crazy good and reflect the way he both develops dishes for his restaurants and eats at home with his wife and two young daughters. And, come Thanksgiving, moving some dishes out to the grill can make life in the kitchen a little less stressful - and we’re not just talking turkey. The weather may be a bit cooler and the days shorter, but that’s no reason to move back to strictly indoor cooking. While many of us may associate grilling primarily with long summer days, remember that we live in San Diego. Wise opened the first restaurant, Trust, in 2016 in Hillcrest, but he has since launched Fort Oak in Mission Hills Rare Society, with locations in University Heights, Solana Beach, Santa Barbara, Mill Creek and San Clemente and Cardellino in Mission Hills. It is a passion that he has since extended to a suite of restaurants. The Trust Restaurant Group’s chef/owner has been working the flames since his days on California’s Central Coast, where he experimented with Santa Maria-style grilling, cooking meats and vegetables in an open-pit grill over coals of native coast live oak, known as red oak wood.
