When construction started last month on a vacant restaurant site in Coronado, it marked a milestone moment for the Ferry Landing — and the end of a 17-year wait. By early next year, an expansive indoor-outdoor restaurant will join its next-door neighbor, Il Fornaio, on a site long designated by the Port of San Diego specifically for waterfront dining. The new restaurant — to be named Maiden Coronado — will be operated by a veteran San Diego hospitality firm, Social Syndicate, which already has about a dozen dining and drinking spots in the county, from Monarch Ocean Pub in Del Mar to Grand Ole BBQ in El Cajon. Maiden Coronado’s landlord, Ferry Landing Associates, is currently building...
