Patrick Daugherty and the Reader
Homeless poser, Mercedes Benz owner, the other Patrick Daughertys of San Diego, at work on Alaska Pipeline
Patrick Daugherty 8:30 a.m., March 24
Gaslamp
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 ...
Downtown San Diego's Plaza Hotel goes; homeless parking proposed on Mission Bay
"In a perfect world we'd all have a unicorn and Lamborghini too"
Another SRO is about to bite the dust. Short for single room occupancy hotels, these cheap hotels have been dropping like flies from 123 in 2012 to 37 in October 2018. It's hard not to ...
Theatre Box – one sweet splurge
Luxury and sugar in San Diego's Gaslamp
I love seeing movies in theaters, but it’s hard to leave home when you have a big screen TV, streaming and DVD options, big easy chairs, and food available for delivery. That cruel fact has ...
Le Parfait Paris – beyond Paris
Authenticity doesn't get in the way of creativity
I’d never heard of the croissant and muffin hybrid called a cruffin. It seems to be a response to the cronut craze that had online breakfast pastry fans astir back in 2013. But I suppose ...
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, ...
Tequila is like wine
Finding gold at Patron's Corner
The Easter Bunny slipped a bottle of Fortaleza reposado tequila into the bright blue English watering can that doubled as my wife’s Easter basket this year. He deigned to plunk a bottle of Casa Noble ...
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. ...
Just another night in Gaslamp
The St. Patrick's Day after-effect
Last Thursday (3/22/18), a few days after St. Patrick's Day, a worker at a cigar bar on Fifth Avenue confirmed a report that an incoherent reveler had wobbled in waving an open bottle of champagne. ...
Bone-dry Broadway Fountain will be wet again
No, hepatitis scare did not shut down the Gill-built 100-some-year-old
Gregory May was at Horton Plaza last week when he noticed the historic Broadway Fountain was drained. He asked the mayor and councilmember Chris Ward via social media why it wasn't operating and "wasn't this ...
San Diego hepatitis carrier caused mass outbreak in Arizona
Downtown infectious disease conventioneers advised to get vaccinated
With San Diego's soaring death rate from hepatitis A, where better to hold IDWeek — a big-money infectious disease convention featuring the nation's top epidemic experts — than the tony reaches of the city’s downtown ...
It's 9:30 p.m., and the Gaslamp crackles with anticipation
"It seems like it's getting younger.”
It’s half past 9:00. The happy hour/dinner crowd is packing into their vehicles, creating precious new parking spaces for the new guard. Apart from a few locals blaring hip-hop from a boombox, the sidewalk of ...
Two-dog night
Low-budget scarf trawl in the Gaslamp
Gaslamp. Monday night. It’s a concert, for one. Sarah the street violinist has got me glued to her spot on the sidewalk at Fifth and F. Because, hey, she’s playing Umm Kulthum’s “Enta Omri” — ...
Moments in time from the Gaslamp
Horton Plaza before it was a mall, Hollywood Theater, ABC Club, Horton Grand Hotel
South of Broadway: The Pigeons in Horton Plaza He used to own the Off-Broadway Theater next door, the last burlesque house on the West Coast, “I paid $5 a week rent, and I took in ...
A place for locals in a sea of Gaslamp tourists
Homemade sausages in a casual alehouse
The Gaslamp is a top dining destination, but I often view it as a Walt Disneylike imitation of a big city neighborhood. Many of the businesses cater to daytime workers or tourists and, consequently, don’t ...
Tipsy Crow, I trust thee
Though I hardly know ye
Rarely do I find myself in the Gaslamp Quarter. Two out of the last three times I was there were after picking up out-of-state friends from the Santa Fe Depot; the other was during Comic-Con. ...
