Tijuana-Ensenada toll road near Salsipuedes under repair
Father's Day gringos react
Mike Madriaga 3 p.m., June 22
Feast! Food & Drink Reviews
Alpha Project opens its first restaurant
Pizza, pasta, panini, and programs
Oh, man. Two steps forward, one step back. People have had their hopes raised a lot for this end of East Village. First, Quartyard opened, was a raging success, then it closed. Then that sidewalk ...
Liberty lunch for the office crowd
Officine Buona can get you out the door in 30 minutes
You have a choice of about 30 eateries at Liberty Public Market, but if you’re taking a quick workday lunch break you’d do well to check out neighboring Officine Buona Forchetta, a recent expansion of ...
Skydive dive
Indoor skydiving place has cafe for decompressing
It’s not what you expect to find next door to Father Joe’s, but right on the corner of 14th and Imperial you can now join the craze for indoor skydiving and then nosh on a ...
Pig meets ramen
Tajima and Carnitas’ Snack Shack join forces
Tajima’s new Adams Avenue locale, discreetly lodged between a French bistro and a coffee house, was thoroughly covered by Reader writer Patrick Henderson shortly after it opened. New since his visit, however, is a flash-in-the-pan ...
A Golden Hill feast
“Oh man. Can something so good be actually good for you?”
"Hey, want buy this Bluetooth headset?” Guy’s talking to me. I’ve just come down to sit in the bus stop. “Cost me $90. I’ll give it to you for $30.” We’re at the #2 bus ...
Local, organic, and rich in that umami flavor
So Cal stereotype
I was cruising through Encinitas, and the words “organic café” caught my eye. I pulled over and parked, and before long I was noshing on a grilled chicken pesto sandwich on a casual patio, trading ...
Del Sur: two steps forward, two steps back
Everything tastes better when preceded by tequila
I’m ambivalent about table-service Mexican restaurants. In a city where great-tasting Mexican food often comes out of taco stand or off the back of a truck, it’s when I sit down and order food off ...
The lure of fresh bread in the morning
Torpedo repeat
BMH Italian wasn’t open yet, but I could smell the bread baking, so I parked it on a bench outside and waited. 10:30 a.m. may have been a little on the early side for lunch, ...
So like Thessaloniki
I gobbled Groovy Greek grub before the Quartyard closed
"No-o! Not Quartyard! Say it’s not so-o!” The guy with the wailing voice was, uh, me. This was last week. I was staring down the line of lights of the bar near the doggy park ...
Everyone gets what they want — on the menu, anyway
Tacos and sushi under one roof...hmm...
“Something for everyone!” says the website for Craft & Sea, the North Park restaurant now occupying the space that was — as far back as I can remember — Zensei Sushi. I find it interesting ...
A new place for selectively health-conscious OB
Healthy food and beachin’ drinks
Although the food scenes of Little Italy, North Park, and Convoy get more attention, Ocean Beach has also been experiencing a bit of a restaurant renaissance in recent years. A lot of decent eateries have ...
Topped with a twang
He plops a slice of swiss cheese on top. It sits stiffly, then folds over in the heat.
You can hear his laugh from all the way out in the corridor. It sounds like he’s having some rip-roaring conversation with Jimmy Kimmel and a live audience. This is Ernest. He’s the chef here ...
Decadent vegan?
Omnivore seeks satiety on a meatless plate
I live close to South Park’s self-described “decadent vegan” bar and restaurant, Kindred, and most nights as I pass by it bustles with stylishly dressed couples and groups who sip craft cocktails, sample the amaro ...
Let’s give it one more Thai
These are not limp, broken-down-in-the-stir-fry veggies
It was not long ago I wrote about a hot-sandwich shop working out of the back of a Golden Hill corner store and how I thought the succession of doomed, sloppy businesses back there had ...
Seaweed burritos
Pokirrito is more an upscale sub shop than a sushi bar
Locals love both Mexican food and Asian cuisine, so why not combine them? That is the idea behind Pokirrito, a restaurant that gained a reputation for its sushi burritos. If you’re not a foodie purist ...
