When you enter Lela's, you enter a world where magic is created. Light dances across the muted apricot-toned walls, highlighting the European black and white tile floors and twinkling in the windows from tiny strands of white lights. We delight in bringing together classic french techniques and the freshest ingredients we can find from the Pacific Northwest. Everything here at Lela’s is made from scratch from the daily baked breads, to our hand rolled stone-baked pizzas, to our fine tarts and pastries, to our flavorful soups, stocks, and sauces. We believe that eating at a restaurant should be an experience of the senses, which is not only rejuvenating, but enlivening and inspiring.

Christine Saetta, Waylon Zabriskie, & Julie Zabriskie
Proprietors

Co-owner and manager Christine Saetta has over thirty years of restaurant love and life in Southern California.  Her son-in-law Waylon Zabriskie is the creative and passionate Chef de Cuisine with a background at the five-star La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California and graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu accredited culinary school, Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon. Her daughter Julie Zabriskie is a restaurant neophyte with a great desire to accommodate and delight Lela’s patrons with her gracious and welcoming character.

History of Lela's

Lela Sherdon opened "Lela's" in June 2000 as Lela's Bakery, serving fine European pastries, breads, pizza, soups and gourmet salads at lunch. As popularity grew rapidly Lela's expanded twice its size to open for dinners after 9 months. At this time Lela's Bakery became Lela's Bakery & Cafe, still offering the beautiful fresh pastries, tarts, desserts, breads, pizzas, but also fresh organic meats & fresh fish entrees, offering quality and innovation. With the help of her staff, Lela could expand her hospitality skills to the front of the house and create a more extensive wine list, featuring a lovely collection of wines from across the globe. Lela continued to evolve, adding more attention to the menus, creating new copper menus which allowed flexibility in printing nightly menus. In 2005,  after many inquiries about whether they were a bakery or a restaurant, Lela's simplified its name to Lela's Cafe. But everyone just calls it Lela's.

In May of 2009 Christine Saetta, Waylon Zabriskie, & Julie Zabriskie purchased Lela's Cafe.  Since the transition of ownership, they have made a few changes to the menu, but are keeping with the excellent tradition and cuisine that Lela Sherdon had started over 9 years ago.

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