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If you can stomach some ’tude with your food, hit the Turf Supper Club in Golden Hill.
Fathom Bistro Bait & Tackle on Shelter Island doesn’t specialize in fish — oh, no — it’s sausage and beer and nautical fact and science fiction.
Lakeside. Unless you live there, you probably only know it as that rodeo alcove of tweekers, rednecks, and Klansmen out past Santee. Often the butt of the joke, Lakeside touts a handful of merits that …
Depending on who you believe, the origins of the Baja-style fish taco will take you two places. Fans of entrepreneurial success stories will favor the narrative popularized by San Diego restaurant mogul Ralph Rubio, who …
Drinks in the John Wayne room at the Longhorn Café in Grantville.
Looking at it now, you may have to squint a little to envision the Spring Valley home that Bulgarian-farm-boy-cum-doctor Luben Walchef bought in 1972 and converted into a family restaurant about ten years later. The …
Hoffer’s Cigar Bar in La Mesa is easy to miss, but that’s what locals like about it.
It’s no secret that San Diego has become world famous for its craft-beer culture over the past few years. Our county is home to several landmark breweries and brew pubs that have garnered praise from …
On the Rocks in Chula Vista -- a good place to find out if your date is a bedwetter or cheapskate.
Taking their name from a twist on the drawn-out folk song (the 99th bottle presumably being the one in your hand), 98 Bottles lends its own flourishes to the bottle-shop/beer-lounge arrangement that is on the …
Charcoal House Restaurant in La Mesa offers the Wrinkle Room, full of cougars and saber-toothed tigers.
If you’re not ready for Tijuana, try El Uno Bar in City Heights.
Rancho San Diego’s Press Box Sports Lounge has a beer selection that outshines any sports bar for at least ten miles in any direction.
Babycakes is a good place to start the day with a cocktail, a pastry, and a spanking.
The Aero Club on India Street offers 600 whiskeys and 1 apple-pie moonshine.