Another Cohn Bargain — Seafood This Time
Family Style Sunday — Blue Point Coastal Cuisine, local seafood specialist, , offers a Sunday night, family-style feast with family-style dining. The meal includes live Maine lobster, Chesapeake Bay blue crab, mussels, shrimp and redfish, all brought steaming hot to …
The Prado's Thursday Night Dinner Package
On Thursday evenings between July 7th to September 22nd there's a special VIP Dinner Package. This VIP Package includes a 3-course dinner at The Prado with a bottle of wine and 2 tickets to the San Diego Museum of Photographic …
Nitrate-free organic franks? Guess again.
Turns out that "all organic, no added nitrates" on a label is totally meaningless, alas. "If you actually surveyed consumers going out of their way to buy no-nitrate products, they['d be very surprised to learn that there's plenty of nitrates …
Stingaree as a restaurant is Stingarooed
Stingaree nightclub is still open, but they've closed the attached restaurant. Basically, nobody went there. (The food was good, but the room always felt like a second-thought, the eating-slum offshoot of the club.) Chef Antonio Friscia will still be cooking …
"Round It Up" for Charity
A coupla chefs in Orange County started the "Round It Up" movement, have raised half a million bucks for good causes in a few months,. and now it's arrived here. The Round It Up America concept is simple. Give patrons …
Roast Bone Marrow recipe, from an expert
Roasted bone marrow is the latest restaurant craze, but of the last four times I tried it, it was overcooked to just plain bone two of those times, and really great only once. (These were all high-reputed new eateries.) It's …
More Gluten-Free Restaurants
A reader posts that Mountain Mike's Pizza: (http://www.mountainmikes.com) offers a gluten-free pizza crust. "I visit the location in La Mesa." And if you crave a fab gluten-free dessert, Extroardinary Desserts has loads of them. .
Soylent...Cow? Reactions
The New Yorker posted several Letters to the Ed reacting to their report on test-tube burgers — all interesting (at least, to me). The first, from a guy in Princeton, New Jersey, was a witty suggestion that to get over …
Soylent...Cow? Good Even for Jains & PETA
Michael Specter in the New Yorker (May 23) reports that scientists in the Netherlands have succeeded in creating test-tube (in vitro) beef hamburger meat, grown from cell culture of cow cells. . The doctor who started this research and continues …
Don't Go Out Tonight (to Sevilla)
Oops. The opening night gala party of Cafe Sevilla at its new Gaslamp address has been postponed to mid-July, when the owners HOPE the place will finally be finished. Stay tuned to this space...
Local Guys Make Good (Book)
Marine Room chefs Bernard Guillas and Ron Oliver, the duo behind their globally inspired debut cookbook Flying Pans: Two Chefs, One World, recently picked up two prestigious honors from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) 2011 Cookbook Awards. The …
RIP: Clay's
Clay's, on the top floor of the Hotel La Jolla, is no more. The hotel has been sold, and the new owners plan to move the restaurant — now renamed the Grill at Hotel La Jolla — down to the …
A Baker's Dozen of Dining Patios
(Well, I had the idea about the same time as Ed Bedford, but then the weather turned so cold...) Here's a list of my favorite patios: Hacienda de Vega, Escondido — This isn't just a patio, it's a lush garden …
Cafe Sevilla reopens, big party -- ole!
Real-life Spanish food (as opposed to "global tapas", "small plates," etc.) is an endangered species here. Cafe Sevilla does a reasonably nice job with both the little and the big bites. (The basement nightclub in the old place no doubt …
Gluten-free restaurants?
An El Cajon reader (and doctor) wrote in: He and a number of his patients have developed gluten sensitivity. (What the hell is happening to our bodies lately? First the shrimp allergy. Then the horrible peanut allergy that's taken delicious …
Change of address / and moved chef
Bud's Louisiana has moved from their tiny Tierrasanta place to larger space in the middle of an office complex in Kearny Mesa: 4320 Viewridge Ave, "A" In the Balboa Business Center San Diego, CA 92123 At least getting there should …
Do I dare to eat a — perch?
A gang of daring eco-minded scientists bearing swords, rapiers, and -- well,,actually, scalpels and DNA kits -- has discovered that the fish we're eating is not always the fish we think we're buying. In retail fish cases, as well as …
Pink Pork — and Cleaning Meat the Caribbean Way
The stuffy old USDA, our national food-nanny, has finally awakened to this modern age regarding the cooking of pork. After decades of demanding 165 degrees (enough to turn Kurobata to shoe-leather), they've finally come around to 145 degrees -- plus …
No "Mike's La Jolla," just Panaderia
After spending about a zillion dollars to remake Jack's La Jolla into "Mike's La Jolla," Gaslamp nightclub entrepeneur Mike Viscuso (of Deco's and several others) has thrown up his hands and walked away. He'd planned to turn the former Jack's …
All Aboard for Cavaillon's Last Month!
As announced earlier, chef-owner Philippe Verpiand (previously of Tapenade) is departing from Cavaillon and from San Diego soon. The restaurant transfer is currently in escrow, which will last for about a month. If you love the food there (and who …