Patrick Daugherty and the Reader
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Patrick Daugherty 8:30 a.m., March 24
Food and Drink
Steak with benefits at Lou & Mickey's
A new dry-aging room gives Gaslamp prime steakhouse an edge
Because of its plum location across the street from the Convention Center, at the left leg of the gateway arch welcoming visitors to the Gaslamp Quarter, prime steakhouse Lou & Mickey’s struck me as a ...
Who is behind Cerveza Xteca?
With a single beer, lowrider brewers tap a coveted market
The 16-ounce cans have started to show up at shops here and there, labels depicting an Aztec princess, along with the Spanish, “La chela mas chula.” In beer parlance, a nice cold one. At first ...
Poke 123: real Hawaiian food before SPAM arrived
“As usual, eyes were bigger than stomach, and stomach ain’t small.”
Annie’s right. I’m greedy. Usually, when I think Hawaiian food, I’m thinking SPAM on rice, hamburger steak on rice drowned in gravy, pork adobo plate with rice and a “salad” of mac and cheese. Delish, ...
Better than okay at Okan Diner
Adventurous dishes, strange ingredients, and comfort food
The name of the restaurant may include the word diner, but don’t go expecting to order a Denver omelet, or anything with a side of hash browns. Okan Diner serves Japanese food, and a fair ...
Holy Paleta for your inner child
Fruit, chocolate, candy, and nuts improve on mere popsicles
Like most kids growing up in America, I looked forward to sunny weather for the treats it brought: usually popsicles. As I look back now, I realize those popsicles were trash. We should have been ...
Late night visits to The Nood Bar
Pan Asian counter offers soups, stir fries, and every type of noodle
I like a good pun almost as much as a good bowlful of noodles, so when The Nood Bar opened in North Park a couple months back, I grabbed a stack of one dollar bills ...
Breakfast flight at The Morning After
Cocktails and breakfast food fuel new Gaslamp concept
You spent last night drinking and clubbing, and now your best bet to escape a hangover is a dose of breakfast food and cocktails. At least that’s the thinking behind The Morning After, a new ...
Farmer Bottega’s Rosie Elephant inspires one’s inner Rainbow Warrior
Its graceful parade of flavors never lets the palate forget the parts for the whole
When the Farmer’s Bottega bartender Shannon Pierce created The Rosie Elephant, she looked to local farmlands and African savannas for inspiration. “It really originated out of nowhere!” she says. “I had tasted all of the ...
Calif.-grown coffee at Bird Rock Roasters – $100/pound
17,000 new trees planted in San Diego this spring
Before the end of this year, local java fans could be paying a premium to drink coffee grown right here in San Diego. At a series of ticketed cuppings last weekend, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters ...
Bowlegged: Bobby Brown, BB King, and Bar B Que
The wall menu is almost as long as the room
“Come on out!” Kenneth’s sitting with Marco under the canopy. It’s been raining, but things are drying out. I’ve just ordered my ribs at the main counter. If you keep on walking, you can come ...
Oh Bobboi, it’s gelato season
La Jolla gelato maker bringing its small batches to Little Italy
We’ve all waited patiently for sunny weather and daylight savings to return, and now that they have, we need to turn our attention back to ice cream. Rather, gelato. Bobboi Natural Gelato, if I’m being ...
Umami Japanese invents the sushi muffin
It's a bite sized taste of San Marcos
You’d have to ask the good people of San Marcos how much the arrival of North City has impacted their drinking and dining habits, but I can attest the manufactured neighborhood is trying its darnedest ...
Poetry on the menu at Medina
North African meets Baja at new North Park bar and restaurant
The poet Ezra Pound coined the word melopoiea as a way to describe how verses or even individual words may charged with musical properties, bringing their own sense of rhythm and melody to spoken language. ...
Lakeside happy hour wheel of fortune: $2 Coors bottle with a Tullamore Dew chaser
Hungry? Try the “Lakesliders” burger deal
Outside, you’d never know it. But this is the spot where Mr. La Madrid used to build stagecoaches, here on the corner of Maine and Laurel in Lakeside, 100 years ago. “In 1916,” says a ...
Iron Fist, aluminum cans
Vista brewery rocks a series of new tasting room releases
At the end of February, Iron Fist Brewing Company announced a new list of beers for 2019, highlighting seasonal releases to be introduced in its tasting rooms every month. This might sound like routine, first-quarter ...
