Marine Room 2000 Spindrift Road, La Jolla www.marineroom.com 858-459-7222 Chef Bernard Guillas's bisque proves to be a signature indeed, a unique version of the omnipresent soup. Exciting and unexpectedly complex, it starts with a good, …
Sushi On the Rock 7734 Girard Avenue, La Jolla 858-456-1138 If you're looking for purist Japanese-style sushi, then it's hard to choose between Sushi Ota and Sushi Kazumi. But if you've got a yen for …
Michele Coulon Pastries 7556 Fay Avenue #D, La Jolla 858-456-5098 The Quiche Lorraine features a light, satiny filling of spinach, cheese, and organic Siestel bacon inside a divine crumbly crust. This is not your mother's …
Harvest Ranch Markets and Jonathan's Harvest Ranch Market, 1555 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, 858-847-0555 Harvest Ranch Market, 162 South Rancho Santa Fe Road, Encinitas, 760-944-6898 Jonathan's, 7611 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, 858-459-2677 Harvest Ranch …
Continent Deli 4150 Regents Park Row, Suite 110, La Jolla 858-623-0099 Can there be a better place in all of Southern California to buy salami? Owner Irina Kanevsky claims her University City store typically stocks …
910 Grande Colonial Hotel 910 Prospect Avenue, La Jolla 858-964-5400 In this casual-chic dining room, you feel like you're in Manhattan. You'll hardly notice this soignée ambience, though, once you plunge into Chef Michael Stebner's …
"Grazing" Some menus call them "small plates" or "global tapas." Others come right out of the closet and admit what they are: grazing menus -- collections of artfully constructed, smaller-size dishes (sized as large appetizers …
The Ascot Shop 7750 Girard Avenue, La Jolla 858-454-4222 Since 1950, the Ascot Shop has been San Diego's mainstay for traditional men's clothing. Neckties, bow ties, and ascots are available in contemporary and traditional designs. …
April Cornell 1000 Prospect Avenue, La Jolla 858-454-1980 7007 Friars Road, Fashion Valley Center 619-298-8482 www.aprilcornell.com Start with the fabrics: crinkled crepe, brocade, crepe de chine, damask, Fuji silk, georgette, jacquard, panne velvet, and sand- …
Which La Jolla? Old La Jolla or New La Jolla? The distinction is chronological, but also a matter of attitude. You can see the contrast along a few yards of Girard Avenue, in what used …
Eyes shut tight to ward off the stinging spray, wet hair plastered to your head, you hurtle blindly on a straight trajectory toward a sinus-filling finale. Flat on your back, you slip through roller-coasterlike curves …
With war brewing in the Middle East and new domestic terror strikes threatened, America is battening down the hatches. Targets are being hardened, nuclear power plants are under close watch, and all manner of precautions …
"I get a little heated about this," Singer says, "because it's frustrating to me. If this was so important to the neighbors, why did it sit there all these years just the way it is?
There are only a few places along the Southern California coastline where you can walk for miles in a single direction and hardly see any highway, railroad tracks, powerlines, houses, or other signs of civilization. …
As the scandal on Wall Street spreads, both Democrats and Republicans are trying to make political hay. But, in San Diego at least, it seems that some prominent Democrats have been the biggest players in …
He’d love to write national ads for the Chamber of Commerce, claiming that La Jolla is “pestilence-ridden, scourged by locusts, swamps with water-moccasins and cottonmouths, and typhoon tidal waves resulting in chickens in the bedroom every Friday.”
Zenbu 7660 Fay Avenue, La Jolla 858-454-4540 A round, cactus-like object sits atop a bed of white daikon shreds, gently waving purple-black spines. It's the first course of your dinner: live uni. You tell yourself …
Cost Plus World Market 372 Fourth Avenue, Gaslamp Quarter 619-236-1737 8657 Villa La Jolla Drive, La Jolla 858-455-8210 5500 Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa 619-466-2991 What are you gonna do when your grocery store turns …
UCSD Thornton Hospital 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla 858-657-7000 The John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital isn't just a sick bay, it's a palace. Only 125 beds on three floors, no wards, two-room …
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library Corner of Wall Street and Girard Avenue, La Jolla 858-454-5872 It seats only 130 for the Athenaeum's series of classical concerts, on a casual mixture of folding chairs and …