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The Field, with a view

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Smokey’s Lake Wohlford Cafe: old-school country diner

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Chandelier Lounge brings something unique to Jamul

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Tabu Shabu’s shabu shabu not too shabby

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Downtown San Diego Feast! Restaurant Reviews Gaslamp

The Field, with a view

In the Gaslamp, Fifth Avenue is still closed to traffic five evenings a week, including most of the day Saturday and Sunday. This has been happening since August, part of ...

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Smokey’s Lake Wohlford Cafe: old-school country diner

Sparkling waters! Blue, rippling, and fresh. You come across them suddenly, on this twisty road in the mountains, heading towards Valley View Casino. It’s Lake Wohlford. First time I’ve ever ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Jamul

Chandelier Lounge brings something unique to Jamul

On the approach to Jamul, Campo Road wends between tree and scrub-colored hill slopes, blithely rising and falling among rugged peaks and large clusters of boulders. Though fewer than 20 ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews North Park

Tabu Shabu’s shabu shabu not too shabby

This is a story I meant to write over a year ago, before I owned any masks. That’s roughly the time Tabu Shabu opened up in the North Park property ...

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MJ’s Fusion Deli rolls lumpia into burritos

I spotted the photo in a friend’s Twitter feed, and almost scrolled past. Another photo of a San Diego-rolled burrito, nothing new about that, right? But then the word lumpia caught my eye, and I ...

April 30, 2021

Escondido Tin Fork

Grasshoppers, and the elixir of the gods

“Listen, kid, people have been flinging their fangs around these little guys for generations. I think we can handle them once and live to tell the tale.” “I’m not touching them. Forget it.” ‘They’re salty. ...

April 29, 2021

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Kearny Mesa

April 27, 2021

Ready to try Mochinuts? Get in line.

After ten minutes waiting for the line in front of me to grow shorter, it occurs to me there are two distinct types of patient people. The first kind has what it takes to show ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews National City San Ysidro

April 23, 2021

Birria and lattes show up at Mujer Divina

Tuétano is the Spanish word for marrow, and bone marrow has a lot to do with the success of the San Ysidro taco shop, Tuetano Taqueria. Since opening in 2018, it’s been written about in ...

Barrio Logan Tin Fork

April 22, 2021

Barrio bourbon at Liberty Call Distilling Co.

Cheery-looking chap’s taking a sip of beer. We’re in the Barrio, up from Northgate Market, in this little restaurant row beside Cesar E. Chavez Parkway. Sign says “Liberty Call,” and shows off big anchors and ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Little Italy

April 20, 2021

Blue Box Butcher makes meat eating easy

It used to be a Grab & Go Subs shop, conveniently located between the freeway and the airport, making it easy to pick up sandwiches on your way to catch a flight. Now it’s a ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Oceanside

April 19, 2021

A muffaletta quest leads to Privateer Coal Fire Pizza

“How many times have I driven past this place?” I muttered to myself. Too many to count. A better question might be, “How long have I been missing out?” The answer to that, I now ...

City Heights Feast! Restaurant Reviews

April 16, 2021

A fine time for Phở Hóa

What I considered a failure of April weather, my wife took for an opportunity to visit a tried and true staple for lunch. So with gray clouds firmly fixed over a cool, windy City Heights, ...

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When burrito met Philly at El Pollo Grill

“Believe me!” says my new friend Timothy. “It’s like ‘When burrito met Philly.’ It’s just meat, Philly cheesesteak carne asada, onions, bell peppers, and Monterey Jack cheese, melted. But that’s all you need! Slices of ...

April 15, 2021

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Lemon Grove

From ribeye to root beer, Grove Grinder stands out

“Try our smoked ribeye,” read the small, hand-painted sandwich board sign on the sidewalk out front. And if there’s any hand-painted sentiment more likely to win my attention, I can’t think of it. Which isn’t ...

April 12, 2021

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Ocean Beach

April 9, 2021

Starfish Filipino Eatery brings something new to O.B.

Count me among the many thousands of young transplants who, upon first arriving in San Diego, took a look around the city, and all it has to offer, and decided to settle first in Ocean ...

North Park Tin Fork

April 8, 2021

Pork belly evolution

“The whole ramen thing again?” says my friend Annie. We’re on the phone. “No. This is like the original, and IMHO the best,” I say. “Come on down! Sun’s got two fists to go!” Up ...

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Feast! Restaurant Reviews

The Field, with a view

Smokey’s Lake Wohlford Cafe: old-school country diner

Chandelier Lounge brings something unique to Jamul

Tabu Shabu’s shabu shabu not too shabby

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