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"Feast" to debut at New Children's Museum in the fall

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New exhibition will teach "the art of playing with your food" and offer hungry patrons a chance to dine like *Le Roi Soleil* (for a price, of course).

The New Children’s Museum changes exhibits once every two years. New exhibits spend over a year in development and it takes more than a month of full work days--during which the museum has to close--to put up a new installation, …

Soup, soup, and more soup at Trieu Chau

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City Heights restaurant breaks the cycle of chow mein and fried rice with a bevy of delicious soups and stews.

Trieu Chau Restaurant (4653 University Avenue, 619-280-4204) is named after a Chinese linguistic dialect (commonly transliterated as “Teochow”) that’s mostly spoken in the province of Fujian. Maybe that doesn’t add anything to the experience of eating at the blue and …

San Diego Craft Beer & Cocktail Showcase at El Dorado

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Downtown cocktail lounge hosts 12 breweries, 6 cocktail bars, and music for an indoor/outdoor

Craft drinks are all the rage these days, and to celebrate America’s Finest City’s finest beverages, prominent craft cocktail lounge (suspenders and all) El Dorado will be hosting the San Diego Craft Beer & Cocktail Showcase on Saturday, August 3. …

Hora Feliz in Logan Heights

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Chiquibaby’s has tostilocos, cerveza, serious company, Mexican-style

“Have one.” It’s Luciano. He’s sitting with a bucketful of Dos Equis. I’ve just sat up at the bar. He’s at the next table, under the peg board scattered with pictures of past parties here. He’s already opening a bottle …

Pomegranate gets everything right

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University Heights Russian restaurant has great food and sets the gold standard for warm and friendly service.

Pomegranate Russian Georgian Restaurant’s long history has been spotted with ups, downs, rave reviews, and weird moves. There was the time the restaurant (2312 El Cajon Blvd, 619-298-4007) stopped taking credit cards, favoring an ATM in the dining room to …

North Park: The pub that makes its own mustard

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The Ritual looks Goth from the outside but is all green inside

Can French fries be a delicious meal on their own? When they come with habanero hot sauce made from, uh, carrots, and home-made mustard, yes. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48242/ I’m sitting up to the counter here at Ritual Tavern with the sun streaming …

Piacere Mio open in South Park

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New cafe on Fern Street presses up some wicked panini.

The cafe at 1947 Fern Street (across the street from South Park Abbey) got a slick, Italian makeover six weeks back and reopened as Piacere Mio, Italian for “my pleasure.” http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48217/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48218/ Formerly, the space housed a different coffee shop, …

Sudden closure of 25Forty Bistro and Bakehouse

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Bad business relationships at one of Old Town's coolest restaurants caused unexpected and immediate shutdown.

After working 90 hours a week for four years, Mark Pelliccia feels like he has nothing to show for it. After years of toil at 25Forty Bistro and Bakehouse, he claims he was close to clearing the restaurant’s debts and …

Ice creams morph into smoothies in Coronado!

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Power outage has MooTime on a short leash

Leroy Mossel stands watching his profits drain away. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/26/48196/ "The longer this goes on, the cheaper they'll get." He's talking about his ice creams. (They're made every night on the island. Start at $3.99 a scoop.) http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/26/48197/ "Pretty soon, you …

The Works Pizza

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Mission Valley pizza place isn't fancy, but the slices are good and the beer is cold.

I’ve been wanting to get to The Works Pizza (5608 Mission Center Road, 619-296-1400), but it was like being on a wild goose chase. There has got to be a smarter way to give mall stores addresses. The Works is …

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South Park's Buona Forchetta: See and be scene!

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At last: A real sidewalk terrazza in 'Diego

On February 13th this year, Ian Pike reviewed Buona Forchetta (3001 Beech Street, South Park, 619-381-4844), and got into the sacred issues of what authentic pizza should be. That’s always been a total mystery to me. But in this case …

Barbecue 81 and American Voodoo set to open

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July should be a good month for University Heights, with two restaurants coming after prolonged construction periods.

I don’t always cover restaurant openings, mostly because the hype machine doesn’t need my help to keep on rolling. For two places under construction in University Heights, however, I am genuinely excited. July should be a tasty month in UH! …

Donut Bar: Comfort food central?

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This time, success! But is success excess?

“Oh my. Oh wow. You’re okay, Bedford, but this is the real thing.” Carla’s working her way through most of the two donuts I got for us to share when I went back to Donut Bar, the new place at …

7th annual Caesar Salad Festival in Tijuana

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As a follow-up to setting the Guinness record for the world's largest Caesar salad, about 20 restaurants will prepare the traditional dish at a free street festival.

Yesterday, the Reader's in-house appetite Ed Bedford posted a thorough history of the Caesar salad, which – to make it brief – was popularized in Tijuana by an Italian cook (he picked it up from his mother) at Caesar’s Restaurant …

Broke Girls Coffee Bar open in Normal Heights

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Adams Avenue coffee shop has punk rock sensibilities and a love of tasty miniaturized pies.

A word to the wise: the name of Normal Height’s new “Broke Girls Coffee Bar” (3562 Adams Avenue, 619-546-8302) abbreviates to BGCB as a play on the former New York City nightclub (CBGB), not the fashion design group (BCBG)! I …

Collab Pop-Up Dinner: a foodie's homage to family-style Tijuana-Chinese street food

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Chef Ernesto Jimenez MacFarland and collaborators explore new twists on the old ties between Chinese and Mexican cuisine.

With all the attention that the eclectic fusion fare known as Baja Med has been getting lately, it’s easy to overlook one of the most enduring (if not understated) culinary influences in Mexico: Chinese food. Chinese immigrants came to Northern …

Happy hour at Cafe 21

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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. Either I didn’t know about it or the menu hadn’t been launched in time for the story--maybe a combination of …

Stanley Cup fever: cheers, chews, boos, booze

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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 have just scored their first snazzy goal against the Chicago Blackhawks in game 3 of the playoffs for the Stanley …

Downtown donut: hole lotta gourmet going on

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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 downtown. Okay, it is in the afternoon. But not that late. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47617/ I have to go in. “We usually run …

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Brunch at Heights Tavern

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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 of Normal Heights. At first, the rabble roused themselves over the presence of a second True North opening Uptown. For …

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