Grand Restaurant Group , the restaurant company that owns Bellamy’s in Escondido and Nick & G’s in Rancho Santa Fe, has expanded its management team this fall with newly appointed Chef Partner Alex Carballo.

The longtime San Diego chef and culinary consultant recently joined GRG and his first big project is re-branding and re-launching the company’s former Mexican restaurant Alejandra’s in Carlsbad, which closed in October.

The walled hacienda-style restaurant at Alga Road and El Camino Real in Carlsbad will reopen in January as Nómada, an approachable, family-friendly 250-seat restaurant/bar featuring popular dishes that Carballo has discovered and reimagined in his extended travels as a “nomad” in his native Mexico.

Carballo said the Nómada menu will include his signature duck tacos,

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