New restaurant at Lake San Marcos

The sixth hole of the newly refurbished St. Mark Executive Golf Course at the Lakehouse Hotel & Resort in Lake San Marcos.

LAKE SAN MARCOS A new restaurant and an upgraded executive golf course will debut this week in Lake San Marcos at the Lakehouse Hotel & Resort.

The Tap In Tavern, a 70-seat eatery that will serve 25 microbrews, and the revamped golf course are the latest improvements undertaken by Eat Drink Sleep, the company that took over hospitality operations three years ago at the 50-year-old resort community on San Marcos southern border.

Brett Miller, CEO for Eat Drink Sleep, said his company has been gradually but steadily modernizing the buildings and grounds of the communitys hotel, restaurants and golf courses. Because of the dilapidated condition of some of the rundown properties, it has taken quite a bit of time and money.

Two years ago, the company revamped the resorts 250-acre hotel property. The newly renamed Lakehouse Hotel & Resort was honored in 2014 as one of the Top 25 Hotels in the U.S. in the TripAdvisor Travelers Choice Awards.

Since then, the focus has been on improving the resorts recreation and dining offerings, said Miller, whose company also runs the upscale Tower23 Hotel and JRDN Restaurant in Pacific Beach.

Lake San Marcos has two 18-hole golf courses, which have been collectively renamed the St. Mark Golf Club. The full-length 7,000-yard course was renovated first, with the addition of new water hazards and an overhaul of the greens. On Tuesday, the renovated St. Mark Executive Golf Course will reopen at 1556 Camino del Arroyo, San Marcos.

The renovation, which cost more than $1.75 million, includes a new 2,700-yard, par-58 design, new tee boxes, a new putting green, a golf simulator machine and updated clubhouse.

As part of that renovation, the old pro shop was gutted and converted into the Tap In Tavern, which Miller said should open either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Miller said he hopes the restaurant will become a popular community gathering spot.

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