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Photograph by Emily J. Davis Mayfield stands out in a batch of newborn restaurants that will never know life pre-pandemic. It’s hard to imagine this serene, split-level venue full. Transplanted Londoner George Barker can picture it, though. He has nursed that vision for five years. Mayfield’s is a singular concept—local California cuisine with the timeless flavors of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa. Chef Jayro Martinez, well-traveled but most recently of Social and Ahba, is a gifted interpreter of Barker’s vision. Enchanting flavors meander through dishes such as Hass...

Prawn toast; Photograph by Emily J. Davis It’s a perfect winter-like day in San Juan Capistrano. Warm in the sun, chilly in the shade. Chatty shoppers and local dogs walking their owners bustle along the narrow sidewalks, making for great people-watching from my seat at Mayfield’s colossal window, wide open to the brisk air. Cocktails arrive and they’re magnificent. Only the ubiquitous face masks reveal this is not a typical late November day. Mayfield is one of 2020’s restaurants that never knew life before the pandemic. Its existence has always included masks, curfews, distancing, a...