A new culinary aerie in San Diego is adding more buzz to an already vibrant culinary scene. Perched on the 20th floor of the InterContinental in the city’s Gaslamp Quarter, Seneca is a laid-back Italian trattoria housed within the members-only Reading Club.

Prolific hospitality firm AvroKO finessed an elevated nautical theme in dapper fashion to match the seafood-centric menu, with glossy wooden floors reminiscent of a luxury yacht, a central streamline 1940s banquette recalling the WWII-era pin-up aesthetic, and a private dining room inspired by a captain’s quarters, porthole window and all.