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Barn House arrives as the last smoked meat standing in Lemon Grove

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In La Mesa Village, Papalo blends herbs, moles, and smoke to create Sonoran BBQ

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Jay's Southern Café brings BBQ and soul food to the outskirts

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Tiny Restaurant, Big Plates

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All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews Lemon Grove

Barn House arrives as the last smoked meat standing in Lemon Grove

Video:FEAST!: Barn House BBQ arrives as the last smoked meat standing in Lemon GroveI had not yet heard that Lemon Grove was about to lose its best barbecue restaurant, when …

All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews La Mesa

In La Mesa Village, Papalo blends herbs, moles, and smoke to create Sonoran BBQ

When my ribs plate arrives, it doesn’t look all that different from the average BBQ order. There’s a metal serving tray, lined with butcher paper, and there are smoked ribs …

All Things BBQ Alpine Feast! Restaurant Reviews

Jay's Southern Café brings BBQ and soul food to the outskirts

Driving around Alpine, it starts to dawn on me that there are a lot more restaurants out here than I thought. Chalk that up to a decade-plus of only going …

All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews Solana Beach

Tiny Restaurant, Big Plates

“Come on in!” a large group of people yelled from the front patio at the Pillbox Tavern & Grill, toasting us with beers while balancing babies on their hips as …

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For fans of meat, mayo, and styrofoam

A lot of the time, when I eat out, I spend longer than I should deliberating over a menu to find the right balance between meat and vegetables. This was not one of those times. …

May 4, 2017

All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews Hillcrest

This hog's still smokin

I visited The Smok'd Hog a couple of years ago when it soft-opened as The Whole Hog. Back then I had a mixed experience at the little BBQ spot at the three-way intersection of Park …

February 16, 2017

All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews North Park

January 19, 2017

Beer, sports, and toddlers

Over the summer a new sports bar and restaurant opened in North Park, across from the Lafayette Hotel at the original corner location of Pomegranate, the Georgian restaurant that has since moved into a larger …

All Things BBQ Baja Feast! Restaurant Reviews

October 7, 2016

He’s hungry as a wolf; she does the happy crocodile dance

I have been meaning to write about the kitchen inside Border Psycho’s tap room for a while. Border Psycho is one of the few breweries in Tijuana that exports to the U.S., a well-established craft …

All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews

September 16, 2016

Savory smoked selections

The San Diego restaurant scene is vast in terms of dining options, but in its own way it is also small and many chefs and restaurateurs are friends in what is, for the most part, …

All Things BBQ Del Mar Feast! Restaurant Reviews

July 29, 2016

A ribbing at the racetrack

The Del Mar BBQ State Championship brought 47 grillers and smokers from around California (and Arizona) to compete at the racetrack on Sunday, July 17. While a panel of Kansas City Barbeque Society judges did …

All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews Normal Heights

July 18, 2016

What is “San Diego-style” barbecue?

So much is (justly) made of barbecue styles. It’s the ultimate sign of a culinary asshat to say, “You can’t get good XYZ-style barbecue outside of XYZ place.” But there’s a nugget of truth in …

All Things BBQ Downtown San Diego Feast! Restaurant Reviews

July 2, 2016

Skip this Gaslamp barbecue

I give new barbecue joints the widest berth of all restaurant debuts. In my experience, really getting the production schedules dialed in takes a lot longer for barbecue, and the first few months tend to …

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All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews Oceanside

Take a boneless thigh and tenderize the hell out of it

Being hungry in Oceanside is a good move these days. Restaurants have been popping up all over the Coast Highway, and a lot of what I’m seeing is a step in the right direction (rumors …

June 9, 2016

All Things BBQ Feast! Restaurant Reviews Normal Heights

Normal Heights is not Memphis

A little while back, I caught wind that hipster sandwich shop Burnside had rebooted itself with a barbecue theme. As self-appointed local barbecue doyen, a position I realize is somewhat oxymoronic, I knew I had …

May 22, 2016

All Things BBQ Bay Ho Feast! Restaurant Reviews

March 12, 2016

Righteous hickory smoke in Bay Ho

I had to drive up a Morena off-street in Bay Ho to find this newish restaurant that calls itself Spice & Soul. It’s a part of town I find myself visiting a lot more often …

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Barn House arrives as the last smoked meat standing in Lemon Grove

In La Mesa Village, Papalo blends herbs, moles, and smoke to create Sonoran BBQ

Jay's Southern Café brings BBQ and soul food to the outskirts

Tiny Restaurant, Big Plates

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