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Happy hour at Cafe 21

North Park restaurant excels with happy hour tapas deals.

It’s really a shame that I didn’t get to include Cafe 21’s “happiest hour” in the Reader happy hour issue. ...

Stanley Cup fever: cheers, chews, boos, booze

At downtown's Stout, $2 sliders and hockey finals have fans coming in droves

“YESS!” Andrea and Alli scream it out with the rest of the pub. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/18/47673/ They're backing Boston and the Bruins ...

Downtown donut: hole lotta gourmet going on

New place sells out so quick, you've got to get there by daylight, practically

“Sold out.” Whack? It’s written clear across the window of this new donut place I’ve run across on B Street ...

Brunch at Heights Tavern

Normal Heights bar opens for brunch. Neighborhood hipsters have not had to run for cover.

The Heights Tavern (3377 Adams Avenue, 619-501-3455) has has made a solid bid to stick around and become a part ...

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Bad service in San Diego

The standard for service in San Diego is lower than it should be and diners need to stand up for themselves.

Since I started reviewing restaurants for the Reader, the only thing I’ve received hate mail over has been my tendency ...

Please come to San Diego, Iron Press.

Orange County waffle sandwich restaurant is doing it right, so why not come to San Diego?

So, I was in Costa Mesa last weekend and I just happened to notice the Iron Press (3321 Hyland Ave, ...

Country invades City (Heights)! Nate's Garden Grill

Here you never eat alone. You're surrounded by trees, chickens, turkeys, goats, horse, future salads, and raving locovores.

Walking – again. This time up Home Avenue. Seeking out the holy grail of locovore cooking. That’s what I’ve been ...

Trevi: Ten inch pizza deal in the wilds of Chollas Creek

It’s the first oasis after you cross the deserted canyons from City Heights

These are desperate times. I’ve promised Carla a meal and it’s heading for nine o’clock at night and I’m still ...

San Diego House Coffee and Tea Shop

Anybody who likes flavored coffee would do well to make a trip to Old Town.

In some ways, Old Town is a weird, quasi-Mexican Disneyland soaked in overpriced and underpowered margaritas. We go around it ...

Thai Island: Leaping shrimp!

Tom Yum Kung means yummy shrimp in a soup that should bristle with both kinds of heat

I’m always in search of the Perfect Tom Yum Kung. Last I had of this spicy sour lemony soup was ...

Toma Sol reborn as wine bar

Mission Hills cafe gets a makeover, adds some booze into the mix, and changes for the better.

Talk about reinventing yourself: Toma Sol Cafe up and decided to forego the coffee shop lifestyle and transform into a ...

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San Diego's Top 6 Ethiopian Restaurants

The final tally of Ethiopian restaurants following one, hungry writer's attempt to eat at them all.

If I learned one thing from Tour de Cheesesteak, it’s that people demand a reckoning. It’s a tough thing to ...

Chula Vista: Skins + artichokes = dinner

Happy hour at the BullsEye Bar can get messy

“Try one,” says my bar buddy. He shoves the chalice with half a dozen shrimp curled around its rim. A ...

Ethiopia, San Diego, Part Six: Awash Restaurant

Stop six of the Ethiopian project is in Talmadge at a second restaurant named Awash, nicer than the first.

Silly me, thinking there was only one Ethiopian restaurant named “Awash!” Turns out there is another, much further out El ...

Barrio Logan: Phish followers' fab elixir

Roxy's Rockin' Grill does juices, feeds Phish fans

Oh no. Passing along National Avenue. Come to the big orange barn where they have the San Diego Public Market. ...

Ethiopia, San Diego, Part Five: Asmara

Back to City Heights for another tasty Eritrean/Ethiopian dinner in an ugly bunker of a building.

After Tour de Cheesesteak, a mere five days of consecutive Ethiopian food is nothing. Nothing, I say! I could do ...

First Look: Magnolia Tap & Kitchen

Southern comfort installed in former Bare Back space downtown

Chris Reid knew he wanted his own bar and restaurant. He considered a number of potential locations, but when the ...

Cowboy Star: Tender is the bite

East Village choice: An $82 steak, or happy hour?

It stands opposite the Grocery Outlet, that new cheap-cheap grocery chain on Market Street that sells discontinued stock at cut ...

Ethiopia, San Diego, Part Four: Muzita

A trip to University Heights' upscale Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurant of note offers sharp contrasts with other restaurants featured in this tour.

Muzita Abyssinian Bistro (4651 Park Boulevard, 619-546-7900) in University Heights isn’t an Ethiopian restaurant per se. It’s more Eritrean. Eritrea ...

Ethiopia, San Diego, Part Three: Harar

A strong showing heats up the competition in the contest to be the best Ethiopian restaurant in San Diego.

Stop three on my comprehensive survey of San Diego’s Ethiopian dining scene was Harar Ethiopian Restaurant (2432 El Cajon Boulevard, ...

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