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Broadway bargain: Taking Time Out for a quesadilla
Surprising food and drink deals at language students’ downtown hangout
This place right next to the Converse language school for foreign students is great to hang out at, partly to get an international feel, mostly to catch the bargains they always seem to have for the often hard-up students. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/25/40632/ …
Home Brew Mart to debut The Homework Series
Ballast Point taps its homebrewing component for a new line of suds
Home Brew Mart (5401 Linda Vista Road, Linda Vista) is one of the most significant locales where San Diego’s craft brewing renaissance is concerned. Opened in 1992 by homebrewing entrepreneur Jack White, it is the supply outlet where many of …
Beer of the Week: Celebrator 25th Anniversary Double Pale Ale
Debuting a beer with personal local ties from Sierra Nevada
Yes, this is a feature all about local beers…usually. At face value, spotlighting a beer from Chico, California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing Company may look like an outright deviation from that formula, but there’s most definitely a local tie-in. Actually, the …
Espresso on the go at Ride On
Bay Park's drive-through coffee is as good as most full-sized shops and twice as convenient.
Cruising up Morena Boulevard in Bay Park the other day, I decided it was finally time to check out the suspiciously convenient drive-through coffee stand in the parking lot at the corner of Ingulf Street, just South of Clairmont Drive. …
Santee Anny’s: The burger at the end of the line
Do South Koreans make the best burgers in California?
“We would kill for winters like this,” says Rick. He’s from New York City. “You call this cold?” The truth? Hell, yes. Specially up here in the high sierra of Santee, at nine o’clock at night. The killer-chill breeze bites …
Piatti Ristorante, La Jolla classic
This restaurant may not have changed much in recent years, but it doesn't seem to need it.
I got some great service the other day at Piatti (2182 Avendia de la Playa, 858-454-1589) in La Jolla Shores. It was that all too rare kind of evening where the entire staff at a restaurant is courteous, professional, lacking …
Stout downtown: It’s hockey time. Eat your poutine!
Ice hockey season brings the annual pilgrimage of puckista fanatics
Why does Stout always look crowded these days? Ice. And we’re not talking immigration. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/20/40481/ ’Tis the season for San Diego fanatics to do what it takes to find a screen, a stool, a stout (preferably Guinness) and hopefully a …
Martinis Above Fourth
Stick with the silly drinks and you'll be OK.
Martini’s Above Fourth (3940 Fourth Avenue) and I disagree on what, exactly, constitutes a “Martini.” I’ll argue in favor of gin, a splash of vermouth, and an olive or two. They seem to think that anything served up in a …
Aphrodisiac? Sexy pupusas at I.B. Farmers’ market
El Salvador's Gastro-Embassy's right by the pier...
Aphrodisiacs at a farmers’ market? That’s what they say about pupusas with the loroco flower buds in them. Seems loroco only grow in Central America. So I keep looking wherever I see the word “Salvadorean” pop up. And here, paydirt! …
Homebrews for guide dogs
Local Habit hosting homebrew-driven fundraiser for service dog trainers
On Saturday, February 23, the statement “this restaurant’s gone to the dogs” will take on new meaning when Local Habit (3827 Fifth Avenue, Hillcrest) holds an event benefitting New Leash on Life, a non-profit organization raising puppies to serve as …
Korea BBQ House
Enduring Kearny Mesa BBQ spot is long on portions, short on excellence.
Seeing as how it’s next door to the legendary Min Sok Chon karaoke emporium, and how it’s been operating successfully for 30-odd years, I figured the Korea BBQ House (4620 Convoy Street) would be all right. The building’s blue, mock …
Tent City Intensity: Harry D’z BBQ sets I.B. nostrils a-twitch
Harry’s reinvented the BBQ sauce, and the nation's most SW farmers' market is richer (in aromas) for it
Was at my favorite farmers’ market. It's the one in IB (Imperial Beach Pier Plaza, 10 Evergreen Avenue, Imperial Beach, 619-397-1917) where the market’s tent city springs up right by the ocean.You see tents, surfers, dolphins, Coronado islands, ocean, Japan, …
Big-time brewhouse additions
New brewers for Modern Times Beer and Monkey Paw
Over the course of the past few months, more and more questions have been answered about upcoming San Diego craft brewing company Modern Times Beer (3725 Greenwood Street, Point Loma), as owner Jacob McKean has piece-mealed out details. It’s been …
First look at Soda and Swine
North Park's new "concept" restaurant is here, but it's a tough meatball to swallow.
I can’t pass binding judgment on Soda and Swine since it’s only been open for three days, but I did sneak in, grind a sandwich, and sip some pop out of sheer curiosity over the high-profile renovation and replacement of …
Beer of the Week: Sweet Tea Session IPA
Monkey Paw brews up a beer for Hillcrest farm-to-tablers
Of late, I’ve been writing a lot about breweries crafting beers for specific bars and restaurants. Typically, the impetus for this is a venue’s anniversary, but in the case of this week’s featured San Diego craft beer, it was mutual …
Beer Touring: Thorn Street Brewery
New North Park brewery has all but one element for success
The last stop on my latest San Diego brewery tour was a recently opened spot called Thorn Street Brewery (3176 Thorn Street, North Park). Nestled in a mostly residential area away from the 30th Street fray, the venue resides in …
Acoustic in Middletown: Unplugged beer comes to oldest brewery!
Expect noise. Acoustic Ales Brewing Experiment about to rock old Mission Brewery
Actually it was the nose, not the noise. Started twitching as I walked up Washington from the trolley. That sexy, sweet, rich malty smell can mean only one thing: someone is brewing inside the old Mission Brewery Plaza courtyard again. …
Bread Canyon turns up the heat
An update on the "bread CSA" that I found out about last year.
I don’t know if anybody remembers, but I was clued in to a secret sourdough bread baking operation last fall and I promised to keep tabs on it. When I first found out about the “bread CSA,” it was in …
Beer Touring: Coronado Brewing - Tecolote Canyon
Off-island offshoot offers expanded look at Crown City operation
Coronado’s a beautiful place, but unless you live in the Crown City, it’s someplace you don’t likely frequent. The lure of the island’s namesake brewpub, Coronado Brewing Company, has sent me across that big blue bridge a number of times, …
Beer Touring: Helm's Brewing
Dark side of the equation is brightest at Kearny Mesa newbie
The first time I had a beer from Helm’s Brewing Company (5640 Kearny Mesa Road, Suite C/N, Kearny Mesa) was at a Japanese craft beer tasting event at downtown sushi den, Ogawashi. It was the only local product provided that …