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El Peladito imports a better sports bar menu

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Hayes Burger built a burger hub beside Chicano Park

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Doggos Gus: Imperial Beach’s bacon brat

“So long, Huey.” It’s a biker muttering this. He ain’t old enough to have picked up that Vietnam moniker for the sun, but he says it anyway. Because yes, that ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Otay Mesa

El Peladito imports a better sports bar menu

Baseball rules at El Peladito. Its entire back wall creates the illusion the Otay Ranch bar and grill sits on the first-base line of a baseball stadium, complete with lawn ...

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Hayes Burger built a burger hub beside Chicano Park

Hayes Burger is the first shop on Logan Avenue, coming out of Chicano Park, and as I approach on foot, I can see a few other people have the same ...

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Dobermans in Earthquake Park

“It was beauty that killed the beast,” reads the sentence etched into the blond bar counter. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” On and on. ...

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Gorilla Eats Sushi, but that’s not fish

Over the past few years, plant-based sushi has become a fixture of San Diego’s restaurant landscape. That’s a big win for vegans and the vegan-adjacent, because there’s a distinct pleasure to the ritual of dining ...

May 17, 2022

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Algo Bueno grows in Chula Vista

Usually, we see this go in the other direction. Somebody with cooking talent tests the market with a food truck, then works to make the dream of a brick-and-mortar restaurant a reality. For Silvia Loya ...

May 13, 2022

North Park Tin Fork

May 12, 2022

Abay Ethiopian Market and Restaurant: flavors that marinate in your mouth

“Eee-yew! Spongey!” cries my buddy Tim. “And you have to eat with your fingers? A mess! Why can’t we have a knife and fork like at any other place?” He has just unrolled a section ...

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May 11, 2022

San Diego resists – but not completely – the invasion of Austin breakfast tacos

Is San Diego finally becoming more of a breakfast taco town? Nobody’s suggesting that tacos haven’t long been a part of San Diego’s balanced breakfast. They may not be what middle America would call breakfast ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Kearny Mesa

May 10, 2022

Formoosa adds Taiwan to the Convoy Asian Cultural District

If a current fundraising effort succeeds, the 805 freeway will get a set of new, city-official signs announcing the offramps to the Convoy Asian Cultural District. Highway signs may not sound like that big a ...

Mission Valley Tin Fork

May 5, 2022

Kiko’s Place food truck: Lunch in the rushes

Oh wow. Ducks. They’re swimming up to me. I can see their little webbed feet pumping hard against the current. Wish I had something in my pocket for them. I’m standing by this beautiful pool ...

Bonita Feast! Restaurant Reviews

May 3, 2022

Eat all the pastries at Hans and Harry’s Bakery

You have to wake up pretty early in the morning to beat the lines at Hans & Harry’s Bakery. The Euro-style cake and pastry shop has been luring customers to a shopping center in the ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Kearny Mesa

April 29, 2022

The Pad Thai Stand’s noodle-friendly patio

It had been a few years since I sought out a certain pad thai farmers market stand to receive a tasty lesson in Thai street food, and I felt overdue for a refresher course. However, ...

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Deliciosos Tacos: Chicken necks! Kentucky Fried Buches! Not KFC

“Let me show you my favorite chicken neck place.” That’s me. Neighbor Kevin and I are crossing the border, heading south. “Your favorite chicken…what?” “Chicken necks, dude. You ever tried them?” He looks at me ...

April 28, 2022

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Harbor Island Point Loma

Everything in San Diego all at once

A group of boats appear to be racing across the bay, their striped, colorful sails puffed out by steady winds and shining in the midday sun. From left to right behind them, a panorama of ...

April 26, 2022

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April 22, 2022

Baked Café won’t make us pronounce “kolaches”

When I wrote about it in 2015, East Village bakery Brooklyn Bagel and Bialy was the closest our city came to having a legit New York bagel shop. Meaning I might have experienced lasting disappointment ...

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April 21, 2022

Break-fast after sundown at UCSD’s Canyon Vista Food Hall

What Meshal is going through right now — “now” being the holy month of Ramadan, with its ban on eating while the sun is up — is not easy. But it has its consolations. “The ...

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Doggos Gus: Imperial Beach’s bacon brat

El Peladito imports a better sports bar menu

Hayes Burger built a burger hub beside Chicano Park

Dobermans in Earthquake Park

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