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A breakfast to remember at Golden Hill Cafe

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Farmers Bottega, where it already feels like spring

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Prager Brothers drives its artisan breads to Hillcrest

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Tu Taco is flamin’ hot in Chula Vista

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A breakfast to remember at Golden Hill Cafe

“I’ve just signed a lease for another 10 years,” says Carmen. “I’m 71. We’re in the middle of a pandemic. People say I’m crazy.” This is 8:30 in the morning, ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Mission Hills

Farmers Bottega, where it already feels like spring

Scoring a weekend table at a decent outdoor dining venue has become something of a post pandemic sport. Go to any restaurant with patio dining on a sunny Saturday afternoon ...

Carlsbad Feast! Restaurant Reviews Hillcrest

Prager Brothers drives its artisan breads to Hillcrest

Spring wouldn’t technically arrive for another few weeks, but the sun was out. After what has nearly been a full, cooped-up year of covid, that was all the encouragement we ...

Chula Vista Feast! Restaurant Reviews

Tu Taco is flamin’ hot in Chula Vista

When a friend of mine started working as an eighth grade teacher, he reported a wave of addiction sweeping through his classroom. The kids, as he told it, were hooked ...

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Sophia Cucina: Colors. Aromas. Flavors

She looks down on you as you come in. Sophia. Sophia Loren, that is. Her portrait is on the wall here, lit up like a Mona Lisa. We’re in a very cool-looking building with a ...

February 25, 2021

Feast! Restaurant Reviews South Park

The Bachi Bus stops daily in South Park

The food trucks in South Park seem to be multiplying. Alongside the usual Mariscos/fish taco truck holding down the Target parking lot, there’s now a Sonora-style grilled taco truck. The Shawarma Guys truck is a ...

February 23, 2021

Feast! Restaurant Reviews North Park

February 22, 2021

Eating is easy at Gelati & Peccati

I felt like a kid in a pizza store, looking through the front window of Gelati & Peccati. Rather than post a menu, the North Park eatery lays out its colorful spread of Roman-style pizza ...

Hillcrest Tin Fork

February 18, 2021

Flavors of East Africa at the Hillcrest Farmers’ Market

Teagan (“Think ‘Reagan’” she says) saws away at her violin right by the entrance. She’s playing Arianna Grande’s “34+35.” Sounds really cool. Actually, this whole scene is hard to beat. Saturday morning, sunshine, cool breeze ...

Carlsbad Cover Stories Feast! Restaurant Reviews Leucadia San Marcos

February 17, 2021

Bitchin Sauce is everywhere now

About ten years ago, young mom and aspiring personal chef Starr Edwards started bringing her food samples to farmers markets in Leucadia and San Marcos, hoping to drum up business. Among her samples was a ...

Carlsbad Feast! Restaurant Reviews La Mesa Linda Vista

February 16, 2021

When dining is a choice between politics and survival

I’ve tried not to write about it, because I haven’t wanted to encourage readers to seek them out. But since December, despite state and local covid regulations restricting on-premise dining, hundreds of San Diego restaurants ...

City Heights Feast! Restaurant Reviews

February 15, 2021

Which is the better egg roll at Á Châu?

I'm not sure which happened first. Did we drive into City Heights because we had a craving for egg rolls? Or did the urge arise because we realized how close we already were to Á ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Hillcrest

February 12, 2021

Bread & Cie and a Valentine’s quiche

This year marks the first I spend Valentine’s Day as a married man. Not to gloat too much, but I hit the jackpot. My gorgeous and successful bride happens to be an accomplished home chef. ...

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Song Hak Korean BBQ: intestinal fortitude

I have this noodle idea in my noodle. Korean noodles. I was up here on Convoy looking for the kind of “glass noodles” that my friend Clive, who was stationed in Korea, says are i) ...

February 11, 2021

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Mission Valley

DoorDash answers mayor Gloria with a “regulatory response fee”

A couple weeks ago, I got a headline wrong. After mayor Todd Gloria limited the fees delivery apps can charge restaurants, I wrote: “Delivery fees are capped, but don’t expect to pay less.” Problem is, ...

February 9, 2021

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Little Italy

February 8, 2021

R & G Salumeria Wine Bar, al fresco

The sun came out, making the return of outdoor dining a hot ticket all over town. At least, as we drove across town, we saw packed patios and parklets all over, and lines forming at ...

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February 4, 2021

Paris Bakery: Don’t forget Tet

Just been hearing about the baguettes of the Paris Bakery. (“Golden Dreams” 1/7/21) And when I coupled that with Reader reader Wink Sajack hauling me over the coals about the cost of some of the ...

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Feast! Restaurant Reviews

A breakfast to remember at Golden Hill Cafe

Farmers Bottega, where it already feels like spring

Prager Brothers drives its artisan breads to Hillcrest

Tu Taco is flamin’ hot in Chula Vista

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