Little Feat on Adams Avenue
Kind of like honky-tonkin'
Hank Randall 4:49 p.m., April 24
Food and Drink
Expect long lines this summer
Ice cream worth waiting for in Encinitas
“By the summer, this line will get even longer.” So says a friend as we wait for scoops at Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream, in Encinitas. The line was about 20 customers deep when we joined, ...
Beauty is in the tamal of the beholder
A feast for the eyes, if your eyes know what's good for them
Prior to writing Feast! stories, I wasn’t someone who frequently took pictures of his food. I figure, being photogenic doesn’t make food worth eating any more than it makes a supermodel interesting. That doesn’t mean ...
A better brewhouse for Pacific Beach
Ten years on, PB Ale House was due for an upgrade
Despite being ravaged by a fire in 2015, Pacific Beach Ale House will celebrate its tenth anniversary brewing beer by the beach on April 25th, and its beer is getting an upgrade. The business known ...
Nobody uses their phones at Quartyard II
"The three architecture students who conceived this, they proved something here."
“Look around,” says Ivan. “What do you notice?” I look around. Uhhhh? “I’ll tell you,” he says. “Nobody’s using their phones See? They’re all talking to each other, drinking, eating, playing with their dogs, whatever. ...
Gin and whiskey hoppers
Craft spirits for a West Coast palate in Vista
Back in 2012, decorated Tennessee distiller Darek Bell published the book Alt Whiskey, which offered recipes and techniques for distilling craft beer into nontraditional whiskies, including the addition of hops. “It got my brain working,” ...
Can carne asada fries be non-traditional?
A Mexican restaurant redux
We were walking around the Gaslamp looking for lunch when my friend spied a waiter, on his way to deliver food to a diner seated on a restaurant patio. It was a large, fat burrito, ...
Point Loma happy hour tour
Stopping to snack in the magic hour
Hurry-up time: Have to hit happy hour because, well, this is Point Loma. Million-dollar yachts, hundred-dollar eateries. Can’t afford full-freight. I’m here for three days. Work. So, hey, three chances at happy hour happiness! Day ...
Oceanside's newest music venue is a brewery
Lines form at Midnight Jack when The Echo Room is bumpin'
Breweries in the city of San Diego are prohibited from hosting live music events by the same license that allows them to brew beer. However, many North County breweries can, and do, and one of ...
Challenge accepted: steamed pork and salted fish
"I’ll make sure to bring you plenty of rice"
The pale wood panels lining the weatherbeaten two-story storefront of China Max may not inspire a lot of confidence to the casual passerby, but during its fifteen years operating on Convoy Street, the Cantonese restaurant ...
San Diego's fastest selling craft beverage might be kombucha
Boochcraft sales doubled overnight
It’s been about two years since Chula Vista brewery Boochcraft introduced the concept of high alcohol kombucha to the craft beverage market. At that time, the mixed fermentation business had the capacity to produce about ...
Hemingway and plantains
Beef shredded, then fried to a crisp in Point Loma
I usually skip the plantains. Oh, I’ll take a courtesy bite, but only to prove I don’t like them. I did something similar in high school, when, struggling to read the unabridged Moby Dick, I ...
A warm greeting in a glass
Bartender Wetherbee "wanted to encapsulate the freshness of Thailand"
Say “Sawatdi!” to the Sawadee! “Sawatdi” is a common Thai greeting (like Hawaii’s “Aloha!”) and the Sawadee (same word respelled for the American palate) is one of the newest inspirations from Prohibition mix-master Heath Wetherbee. ...
Grabbing the grilled pork at Villa Manila
"Most Filipinos like eating with their hands when it comes to feasting. It ties them to the old ways.”
“With your fingers, dude?” says Wes. “Hey, what else did people eat with, before you French brought in the fork, right? You invented cutlery! The Curse of the Eating Classes!” Actually, Wes has always been ...
Green Flash Brewing sold in foreclosure
No flash of green for its shareholders
San Diego's fourth largest brewery, Green Flash Brewing, is in the process of being dissolved, and with it Alpine Beer Company, the cult beer favorite Green Flash acquired in 2014. That’s the reporting coming out ...
Signs of a maturing craft beer market
The future looks like lots of small breweries
Craft beer trade group the Brewers Association has been releasing its annual trove of data about the industry, revealing a trend in national statistics in 2017 that often, but not always, reflected what we’ve seen ...
