Blanca is the perfect spot for fine dining in the Solana Beach neighborhood with its elegant American and contemporary French cuisine. Among the days of its grand opening, Blanca drew swarms of curiosity-seeking diners, probably wondering if upscale dining could really be pulled off in a 20-year-old beach-city strip mall. Blanca pulled it off with style and grace. Discover the restaurants chic dining room with Chef Wade Hageman in the kitchen. His innovative, refined, modern American cuisine combines the freshness of local ingredients with the sensibility of classic French technique.