Best Chef, Bernard Guillas:
People’s Choice and Critic’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (1996-2003, 2005-2007, 2009)
Best Service:
People’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (2001-2003, 2005-2007) and Critic’s Choice (2009)
Most Romantic Restaurant:
People’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (1996-2006, 2009)
Most Romantic Restaurant:
Editor’s Pick, San Diego Magazine 2009
The People’s Choice Award:
San Diego Union-Tribune / Presented at the California Restaurant Association’s Gold Medallion Award Dinner (2000-2004, 2006-2008)
Best Dining with a View:
People’s and Critics Choice, San Diego Magazine (1996-2008)
Best Overall Restaurant Service:
Reader’s Choice, La Jolla Village News (2008)
Best Chef, Bernard Guillas:
Reader’s Choice, La Jolla Village News (2008)
Most Romantic:
Reader’s Choice, La Jolla Village News (2008)
4 1/2 Stars:
San Diego Reader (2008)
Best Restaurant to Celebrate a Special Occasion:
San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Readers Poll (2005-2007)
Most Romantic:
San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Readers Poll (2005-2007)
Best Service:
San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Readers Poll (2006-2007)
Best Chef, Bernard Guillas:
San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Readers Poll (2006-2007)
Best of the Best, Money No Object:
People’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (1997, 2001, 2004-2007)
Best Restaurant in San Diego:
AOL CityGuide’s City’s Best (2006-2007)
Best Surfside Dining in San Diego:
AOL CityGuide’s City’s Best (2006-2007)
Best Dining with a View:
San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Readers Poll (2006)
Silver Fork Award:
San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles (1992, 2001-2006)
Wine Spectator:
Award of Excellence (1990- 1992, 2001-2008)
Most Romantic Restaurant:
944 Magazine 2006 Platinum Awards
Best Fine Dining:
944 Magazine 2006 Platinum Awards
Best Romantic Restaurant:
City Beat Magazine 2006 Readers’ Poll Winner
Best Restaurant in San Diego 2005:
Travel + Leisure en Espanol (2005)
Best Dining with a View:
Critic’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (2004-2005)
Best Chef Award, Bernard Guillas:
Critic’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (1996-2003, 2005)
Gault Millaut Award:
2 Toques 16/20 rating (1998-2008)
Distinguished Restaurants of North America (DiRoNA):
Top 500 Best estaurants in North America (1992-2005)
Where To Eat Now in 18 American Cities:
Gourmet Magazine (2005)
Chef of the Year Award:
Chef Magazine (2004)
International Restaurant & Hospitality Rating Bureau’s American Chefs Hall of Fame:
Bernard Guillas inducted as one of only 14th chefs to receive this honor (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Best Fine Dining:
San Diego Union Tribune Reader’s Poll (2004)
American Academy of Restaurant & Hospitality Sciences:
Top 80 US Chefs and Gold Award for the Marine Room (1994-2004)
Nation’s Restaurant News Hall of Fame:
Marine Room is one of only two restaurants in the San Diego area to receive this honor (2003)
Zagat’s San Diego Survey:
Best 25 San Diego Restaurants (1996-2003)
Best French:
Critic’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (2003)
Best of the Best:
Reader’s Poll, San Diego Union-Tribune (1998) and People’s Choice and Critic’s Choice, San Diego Magazine (2003)
Best Atmosphere:
Best of the Best Reader’s Poll, San Diego Union-Tribune (1997-2002)
Best Chef in San Diego Gold Medallion Award Winner Bernard Guillas: California Restaurant Association, San Diego Chapter (2001)
Featured Chef San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau:
National Media Promotion (2000)
Member San Diego Regional Team:
James Beard House, (September 2000)
Southern California Restaurant Writers Association “Golden Scepter Award”:
One of only 14 restaurants in Southern California to receive this highest honor. (1999)
Most Scenic Restaurant:
Best of the Best Reader’s Poll, San Diego Union-Tribune (1998)
Most Romantic Restaurant:
Best of the Best Reader’s Poll, San Diego Union-Tribune (1997, 1998)
America’s Rising Star Chef:
Selected by a panel from Food Arts Magazine, Guillas is one of 15 chefs chosen for this prestigious cookbook and PBS television series (1996). Also featured in Food Arts Magazine as a result (1996)
San Diego Restaurant Association:
Gold Medallion Award, Best Hotel Restaurant: The Marine Room was a finalist (1995, 1996)
Evian Natural Spring Water & Gourmet Magazine’s Healthy Menu Awards: Finalist (1995)
Travel Holiday:
Good Value Dining Award (1992)
Prosper Montagne:
2nd place prize (1984, 1987)
