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1973 Reader guide to jogging, bookstores, cheesecake
San Diego writers open up: Jeff Weinstein, John Brizzolara, Dave Zielinski
Hard-boiled local Brizzolara recalled an evening when, together with three other suspense writers, he was invited to Grounds for Murder, a San Diego mystery bookstore, to discuss his work. “There was some controversy about Wirecutter. …
November 1, 2021
San Diego vs. L.A. – guess who wins?
Two Views of San DiegoI used to consider San Diego roads relatively sane, compared to L.A. Now the freeway is full of lunatics. Everyone’s trying to go faster than the next guy. People used to …
July 24, 2021
San Diego early foodies: the Prophet, Grant Grill, Gatekeeper
I Didn’t Chew My Rice Enough As I sat down to write this review, a woman I know told me not to lie: “I’ve never read an honest restaurant review in San Diego (she said). …
July 11, 2021
Apple Tree's produce man talks, writer joins Gulf Coast Grill cooks, donut immersion
Banana Man Across the aisle, is another table like yours neatly stacked with oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, papayas, and other fruits. That table, as well as the rack against the wall, are refrigerated. Your table is …
January 31, 2021
What was thought hot 45 years ago
1973 San Diego guide to San Diego guidebooks What Neil Morgan never told you. 1973 San Diego guide to the San Diego Reader Who are these people? 1973 San Diego guide to cheesecake Supermarket, specialty …
January 5, 2019
Village Voice food critic Jeff Weinstein revisits his gustatory past in San Diego
There's an unbroken line from highchair to dining chair that follows my profile faithfully.
May 1, 1997
Last suppers ordered by inmates on Texas's death row
My friend James recently left an astounding list on my desk: "Final Meals Requested by Inmates Executed in Texas." Two pages, 34 names (all men), 28 meals. He picked it up from a Mr. Brown, …
November 21, 1990
San Diego overview – writing contest winner
san diego, lyrics: mr. history looks down on the city i don’t want you to think san diego sounds funny. i don’t understand why the most powerful feeling this city evokes, at sunset, a sort …
December 9, 1976
1973 San Diego guide to a year of restaurant reviews
Small Bites From A Year’s Feast of Reviews The Blue Man “...This tiny French restaurant, located in the unlikely town of Lemon Grove, is the most exciting one I’ve discovered in the four years I've …
October 4, 1973
Jeff Weinstein flays the Prophet Vegetarian Restaurant
I asked for a dinner of stuffed mushrooms, and was served a visually beautiful dish of dark circlets sitting in white glistening sauce, out of which bean sprouts grew like hair.
March 29, 1973
L'Auberge on Carmel Valley Road
In a previous column I suggested that one kind of restaurant which deserves to be the object of review is the "pretentious-enough-to-warrant-some-kind-of-critical-response" establishment, because "the public should not be ripped-off." Calling attention to shortcomings is …
March 15, 1973
What to say about a Tijuana restaurant
The menu changes every day. Every day! That went out years ago in most places. They do real cooking, so you can always say "the cook got drunk and the cat fell in the stew" or something.
February 15, 1973
The Poop Deck in Oceanside
Should a reviewer “pan” a struggling restaurant, if it is sincerely bad? Should the reviewer bother to talk about a place which “everyone knows" is good and will prosper whether or not the review is written.
February 1, 1973
Ciao! Manhattan would be dead if entirely fictional
I sympathize with "Suan" — Edie Sedgewick — asking this simple question about the running dialogue in part of Ciao! Manhattan, a film at the Academy Theater, because I wondered, in a larger way, to …
December 14, 1972
The Reader dines out at the Shanghai in La Jolla
Some waiters are more adept than others in understanding that you don’t want MSG in your food (all Chinese restaurants I’ve eaten in use too much MSG unless you request otherwise).
December 7, 1972
A Perfect Parody of a San Diego Beer Bar
The jukebox switched to “Funkier Than A Mosquiter’s Tweeter” and most of the people at the bar started mouthing the words. One man shooting pool almost hit our soups with his cue. Someone in the room screamed.
November 23, 1972