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Food and Drink
The daughter who eats anchovies and huitlacoche
Well, it was the Westgate
It was time for a little father-daughter bonding and what better place than a drag show? Exactly! That’s why I had no problem when my daughter asked to go to Werq The World, featuring drag ...
Photogenic mole enchiladas
Colorful Mexico City style, Coronado address
Call it the food writer’s dilemma. Sometimes you eat something that tastes wonderful, even though it doesn’t always look that great. Because food-loving readers tend to share food stories mostly based on pretty photos of ...
It's new brewery season in San Diego
Five new reasons to explore local beer
After several years of a new San Diego brewery opening every two or three weeks, 2018 has progressed at a slower pace. Until the past two months, which has seen a flurry of new businesses ...
Beauty as well as bread
Artful pastries, chewable loaves, and a killer breakfast sandwich
The name Tartine lends about as much excitement as you’ll ever see attached to the word Bakery. San Francisco’s premier artisanal bread and pastry shop, Tartine Bakery has captured the food world’s imagination with a ...
Mold gold
This is the best danged torta I can ever remember eating.
It’s black. It’s a fungus. It’s a disease. It’s delicious. I know because I’m sinking my fangs into a torta that’s drooling with it: huitlacoche. That’s a Nahuatl name meaning “sleeping excrescence.” It grows on ...
The dirty martini of craft beer
Bitter Bros conjure Javier Plascencia's briny brew idea
I’ve heard brewers compare what they do to making soup, chili, or other kinds of cooking, but it’s not often you’ll hear a chef concur. “Brewers, they’re like cooks,” Javier Plascencia tells me, “they have ...
Pay attention, Pacific Beach!
Some of the country's best sandwiches are in your neighborhood
A marker board out front points out that Zagat has proclaimed Supernatural Sandwiches one of “15 must try sandwiches in America.” And I agree. For those of a younger generation, Zagat is like Yelp, but ...
Cohn restaurant manager saves the evening
Eating Island Prime food without being there
“Where’s the best steak in San Diego with a view?” My friend Vicki from Las Vegas asked me. “I’m in the mood for meat.” My husband and I tossed out some ideas of some of ...
Soul in a surf town
Fried pork chops bring out the pearly whites
If you’d told me two months ago I’d be sitting in a church banquet hall eating soul food, I’d have bet I was taking a trip to the South. Instead it was a short drive ...
Sushi hot spot, sushi night spot
Everything and everyone looks terrific
India Street is typically thronged on a Saturday night, its city best restaurant scene luring every manner of date night, birthday celebration, and — is that a bachelorette party? I’m forced to wonder, what is ...
Haggis: bad, Nessy burgers: good
A nap and a Scottish piper wailing in the heather would go down well right now
"You can see forever!” says Mag. We’ve just got out of her car. Wind sifts up from the San Luis Rey river, snaking through the valley below. Interstate 15 swoops towards us like a gigantic ...
San Diego brewer spews dust at Telefónica
No lagers made there yet because of water filtration
When I bump into SouthNorte brewer Ryan Brooks, he’s covered in dust. The result of milling grain before a brew day, he explains. We’re on the patio of the Coronado Brewing tasting room in Bay ...
The most flavor for your buck
All-you-can-eat East African food
Flavors of East Africa was already known to sambusa-loving farmers market regulars when it opened a permanent restaurant on El Cajon Boulevard about eight years back. Since that time, it’s moved a couple doors down ...
Oceanaire a chain, but with some local nuance
$55 seabass, $49 halibut
“Not all chain restaurants are the same,” my friend told me while biting into a crispy piece of calamari. “Some chains just go for the quick buck with mega-meals. Others want that fast casual meal ...
Scaring up healthy food
Gluten-free tastes good at Flower Child
My son was ready for a rite of passage: Going through the haunted attractions at the Scream Zone on the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Yes, at the age of 12, he was ready to deal with ...
