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Feast! Food & Drink Reviews
Marrow on the side in Ysidro
A birria to stop you short of the border
Usually San Ysidro means a trip through the world’s busiest border crossing and, ipso facto, tacos for lunch. But this time I’m taking the second to LAST USA EXIT in search of bone marrow. And ...
Rib tips are beckoning
“I just do this for a hobby.”
What is going on up here? This is Chollas View-Mount Hope. Guess I’ve been looking for ribs in all the wrong places, heh heh. We’re talking Market Street in the 4200 area. Trundling east in ...
How much dough is put into these donuts?
Superior ingredients are just part of the story in Carlsbad
“There are two sides to every story.” This phrase has been following me around for several weeks. Maybe it’s the alternative facts-age replacement for that cliché of acceptance, “It is what it is.” Whatever the ...
Not the usual carne asada
Kennedy's Meat Co. updated with hybrid tortillas and choice beef
I don’t suppose many readers have occasion to go out in Escondido’s eastern sprawl for carne asada. I doubt most of us need to travel a mile to find a choice of spots serving it. ...
All I can say is, lavish!
I waddle out, a couple of pounds heavier.
I swear. Thought I knew Barrio Logan. I’m wandering down Beardsley to where it gets more industrial. Right where Newton Avenue crosses, by Perkins Elementary School, I spot a sandwich board. Huh. A kind of ...
Close, but no thanks
It's tough to quit your favorite taco truck
When I heard about a new mariscos food truck parking in Golden Hill, I started fluttering around it like a moth on a porchlight. Mariscos El Chingon has started parking daily in front of Anakin’s ...
A cure for breakfast boredom
Mexipino is here to remind us how delicious combining cultures can be
Most breakfast menus tend to be long reads, just not very interesting ones. You’ll find an entire section dedicated to all the predictable variations of eggs, meat, potatoes and toast. Another to pancakes and waffles. ...
The golden age of small batch scoops
Stella Jean's is giving ice cream a new look
Let’s just call this what it is: a golden era for ice cream in San Diego. Made from scratch ice cream parlors have been opening up left and right this year, and the latest neighborhood ...
Poke power
I need some of the pure protein tuna has. Not greasy cheeseburgers.
Are we running out of tuna? Standing here in Poke Etc, in the middle of National City’s Highland View Center, I’m starting to wonder. Little signs on the counter say they’re going to have to ...
Behind the $15 lunch
North Park's Encontro serves steak from Cardiff
I’ve gotten used to paying 15 dollars for lunch. I remember days that would seem outlandish, but these days I’m unfazed by $15, when that charge includes tax and tip. That’s usually for a sandwich ...
Muffuletta in the hood
An early look at South Park's new neighborhood eatery
I’ll go ahead and say it. I never much cared for South Park Abbey. It had a solid beer list, and I would catch the occasional NFL game there, but between food and booze, and ...
Happy hour with sunset and dessert
Order before 6 pm for prix fixe or sushi specials
I kept calling it the happy hour menu, and my server kept correcting me: “Sunset menu.” Sounded like semantics to me. It’s available from 4:30 until 6 pm nightly, conventional happy hour timing. Then the ...
A beautifully angry cauldron of tastes
“We are all Issan here.”
To understand a cuisine, you’ve got to look around. That is, look at the countryside of an area. Like Issan cooking. These people live in the not -so-fertile crescent of Thailand’s northeast. The land doesn’t ...
Do not order from this web site!
The story of a scooter delivery that wasn’t
I found a flyer for it in a brewery tasting room, misspelling the word "Scooter." But that’s nothing new with internet domains. This site was called Scoootr.com, with three Os, and it offered food delivery ...
That time the affordable sushi didn't sell out
Prices already too good to be true
The man had a problem that I could help solve. And all I had to do was eat good, well-made sushi at a bargain price. I’d shown up to Yoshino Japanese Deli, late, like I ...
