Rocky road: Civita residents to push back plan
Proposed thoroughfare imperils "safe, walkable dense urban village"
Dorian Hargrove noon, Aug. 22
Golden Hill Stories
A Golden Hill feast
“Oh man. Can something so good be actually good for you?”
"Hey, want buy this Bluetooth headset?” Guy’s talking to me. I’ve just come down to sit in the bus stop. “Cost me $90. I’ll give it to you for $30.” We’re at the #2 bus ...
Let’s give it one more Thai
These are not limp, broken-down-in-the-stir-fry veggies
It was not long ago I wrote about a hot-sandwich shop working out of the back of a Golden Hill corner store and how I thought the succession of doomed, sloppy businesses back there had ...
What about people who sleep in their cars?
They can park at New Life Church and Jewish Family Services
“Hey guys why do you need like 12 squad cars,” asked Konrad Czerwinski to the police officers that blocked off his auto shop. At approximately 8:00 a.m., on May 5, Czerwinski, the owner of Adams ...
USS Bennington oak grove now on Balboa Park map
And many other improvements
More than 110 years after they were planted in Golden Hill, the trees in Bennington Memorial Oak Grove are getting a dose of proper decorum. In July 1905, when the boiler on the USS Bennington ...
Go south for tacos, north for pizza
“That’s a great one, that one is also really good, or you could go for that one.”
I first visited Pizzeria Luigi in 2008. I lived in Los Angeles at the time, but I visited my brother in San Diego frequently enough that Luigi’s became a regular spot. I thought Luigi’s pizza ...
Hipster zone planned for North Park
Community plans for Golden Hill and South Park also laid out
Mid-city residents packed city-council chambers on Tuesday afternoon (October 25) as councilmembers convened to consider long-awaited updates to community plans for North Park and Golden Hill. The most contentious discussion centered around the North Park ...
Get an early start on tomorrow's happiness at Krakatoa
Coffee, rotating beers, and hippie-tinged potions
Over at Here’s the Deal we often revel in the local nightlife, but what about you day-drinkers out there? Krakatoa is the kind of place that allows one to feel validated — nay, vindicated! — ...
Where does that meat come from?
Butcher shops are back, baby
I’m already on record as being in favor of the reemergence of the dedicated butcher shop. Since Sepulveda Meats and Provisions opened in my neighborhood, I’m even more enthusiastic. At one point, standalone butcher shops ...
Tasty grabs
Little Golden Hill food counter has surprising flavor
Back when I lived in Golden Hill, the nearest shop was this little corner convenience store at the corner of 26th and Broadway called San Diego Market. I’d buy lottery tickets there, pick up beer, ...
Death of a Landlord
Tribute from “the kind of tenant everybody wants!”
You should come home. Rod died. I got the text from my roommate on a Sunday night. “Oh, Rod,” I sighed. It was sudden news, and I wanted to be surprised. But I couldn’t be. ...
Hunka hunka Bernie Love
Local indie kids throw a Berning Man fundraiser at the Tree House in Golden Hill
“It’s been percolating for a while. I’ve been wanting to do something to help the campaign,” says local musician/promoter Jakob McWhinney about his upcoming Bernie Sanders rally, appropriately called #BerningMan. The day-long concert is scheduled ...
Dark Horse’s new stable
Weathered machinery lends attitude
Normal Heights coffee roaster Dark Horse will soon become a Golden Hill coffee roaster. Following more than a year of planning and construction, the company soft-opened its new retail shop on 25th Street just before ...
Tour de Fat rides into Golden Hill
Folks of all types come out to celebrate two wheels and liquid bread
Cyclists of all stripes converged on Golden Hill Park Saturday afternoon (September 26) for the latest installment of Tour de Fat, a bicycle-centric traveling carnival used as both a cycling advocacy fundraiser and promotional venue ...
A drink that is not a pick-me-up so much as a wind-me-down
Perfect home for the Quick Fix
Like New Yorker Tony Bennett singing his heart out for San Francisco, Counterpoint bartender Ryan Andrews has made the East Coast cocktail known as the Quick Fix his own — and in the process a ...
Kinda tacoish
Sinner or Saint at the Golden Hill Farmers’ Market
I spend more time than most worrying about the authenticity of tacos. There are thousands of versions in San Diego County, and most would pass any test you might come up with, even those using ...
San Diego’s simplest food truck is Tastlicious
No-frills food truck drops in remoulade and gremolata
There’s something refreshing about a food truck that bucks the trend of a cartoonish theme and puts the focus on making a few things well. During a visit to Golden Hill’s Saturday farmers’ market, I ...
The history of the world is written in food
Garlicky delish
So good to be back. I first came here two years ago. Then popped in earlier this winter when I discovered their happy hour. Devoured a totally delicious $3 eggplant roll. Promised more in this ...
We roast to sweetness
About as micro as a micro-roaster can be
Experienced third-wavers the Bonner family have been quietly building their business in Golden Hill and Sherman Heights.
Grandmother's tongue at sunset
Happy hour, Georgian-style: eggplant, Russian beer, and Marko
Broadway? This must be the narrowest patio west of 25th. I mean, two people can sit at each of the half dozen tables, but nobody can get past you. You have to scrinch in from ...
Golden Hill hangout raises its food game
One-time wine bar now solid all around
Having lived in or around Golden Hill for several years, I've spent plenty of time drinking in all the same spots everybody else has — there just aren't many to choose from. Here's the typical ...
Be a better person, or like, whatever
A smug of hipsters, like a murder of crows
Dear Hipster: My sister and I went to Luigi’s Pizza on a recent Friday night. And as you can imagine, the place was packed with hipsters galore and their hipster tots in-tow. We ordered, ate, ...
Sucker puncher
City and one of their parking-enforcement officers hit with lawsuit
Two emergency medical technicians are suing the City of San Diego for negligently hiring parking-enforcement officer Anibal Solis, who on April 13, 2014, entered a Golden Hill convenience store and punched the paramedics with no ...
Dog fight in Golden Hill
Street King's taco truck makes you choose between SD & TJ
Street King Tacos is a food truck with very good tacos, plus tortas, and TJ-style hot dogs that are as good as any on Revolución. Excellent fish tacos, too. Open late. Stays at this location.
Off-menu at my go-to burrito joint
The Bay Area's got nothing on Los Reyes
I've rarely been more than a ten-minute drive to Los Reyes over the years, and for the past few it's been about a five minute walk. The place is entirely what I expect from San ...
Dollar belly filler
Ed searches for a meal that costs a single buck
Can a feller fill a belly for a dollar in this town? Just ask Carlos. That’s what I did, because that’s all I had. Exactly one Washington in the pocket, eaten nothing all day, had ...
Balboa Park Golf Course plan gets go-ahead
City attorney's office deems funding method sound
The City of San Diego, golfers who frequent the Balboa Park Golf Course, and pedestrians who traipse and cycle the the winding road where the clubhouse is located hope to replace the 1930s clubhouse, pathways, ...
City can’t drag its heels any longer
Residents to get reimbursed for illegal maintenance assessment district
It was a long time coming for attorneys and volunteers in Golden Hill and South Park to get reimbursed, at least partially, for their time and money spent to fight the city over their illegally ...
Doggone! The dog’s back after 7 years
Buddy the black Lab returns to owners as owners return to county
A few weeks ago, Buddy, a ten-year old Lab, was reunited with his owners after having gone missing for seven years. During the San Diego County wildfires of October 2007, Buddy and his family were ...
Cheesesteak isn't the only food from Philly
At long last, I try a pork roll sandwich
A lot's been said about Giorgino's cheesesteaks — after all, the sign over the Golden Hill shop boldly claims to have the best in town. But there's been another item on the menu that's aroused ...
Final verdict on blood moon? Whatever.
Note: you can’t take a good picture of the moon with your iPhone.
I watched April 15’s much-hyped “blood moon” in two phases. I don’t understand the science behind the blood moon but the entire internet said that it was something that happened rarely. I was determined to ...
Golden Hill "Renaissance Project” begins
Widened sidewalks, new water mains, reverse-angle parking spots planned
City leaders on April 9 broke ground on a $1.7 million effort to ease traffic, upgrade sidewalks, and revamp parking along 25th Street in Golden Hill. Work on the thoroughfare connecting SR-94 and Balboa Park ...
Golden Hill canyon to fill with 27 new homes
No opposition to development site “well known for its rich fossil beds”
Where 29th meets B Street, in a quiet part of Golden Hill, a previously undeveloped, narrow green canyon will soon be the site of 27 new homes. The canyon, which for many years included the ...
Shaded deck seating apparently worth the wait at Krakatoa
Slow service hasn't turned people away
I keep waiting for Golden Hill to finally give up on Krakatoa. The converted craftsman coffeehouse is plenty inviting, with a shaded wraparound deck and ample parking in the back. But it's slow. The frustrating ...
Balboa Golf Course clubhouse to expand?
Expansion contingent on pedestrian pathway
On February 12, the Golden Hill Planning Committee unanimously voted to deny support of a proposed extension of the Balboa Golf Course clubhouse. All present members of the community advisory group took issue with the ...
Trying to find a niche at the farmers' market
Or, what happens when capitalism gives you the munchies
A certain La Jolla resident/presidential candidate made the wrong kind of headlines a couple years ago when he suggested not enough Americans have the entrepreneurial spirit required to borrow twenty grand from their parents to ...
Galactic Girl to depart Golden Hill grocery store
Jaycee's Market to be sold, art to go along with former owner
For now Galactic Girl, a work by professional aerosol artist Caleb Aero, resides where she has for the past several years — among 15 to 20 other 6´x 4´ paintings decorating the wall above the ...
Language barrier prompts naval hospital bomb scare
Lost deliverymen took wrong turn, detained for two hours
A couple of guys attempting to deliver a package triggered a shutdown of the main gate access to Balboa Naval Hospital on Thursday, January 2. For approximately two hours, San Diego police blocked access to ...
City to pay in full for illegal maintenance assessment districts
Litigation expenses of Golden Hill and South Park residents to be recouped
For many residents of Golden Hill and South Park, the fight to dissolve their maintenance assessment district was long, hard, and expensive. In 2011, more than four years after filing a complaint against the city, ...
Three pairs of lust-worthy fall boots
When fall rolls around, most Americans look forward to crackling fires, hot cocoa, and the changing leaves. There’s not a whole lot of that going on here in San Diego. But the fashionistas among us ...
Meet Council Brewing Company
New brewery to-be to be run by a female brewmaster
These days, craft beer fans try to keep as much an eye on San Diego breweries as they do on the thumping pulse of the pipeline of incoming brewing companies. Those interested in the works-in-progress ...
Totally stuffed at Sherman's
“Rich,” she tells me. “Too rich.” Dang. No way is it too rich for me.
Sherman’s Shack offers Ed interesting burgers and tacos… a garlic shrimp and cream cheese–stuffed burger topped with orange sweet & sour, for example.
Where will the gallinas of Golden Hill go?
Resident told she must get rid of beloved chickens
Maricela Martinez has kept her happy chickens in her yard at 28th and A, across from the golf course, right next to the sign that demarcates South Park from Golden Hill, for seven years. Signs ...
Golden Hill Street Fair re-revived, slated for October 13
Event stalled not just for lack of money
In an interview with Jim Miller of the San Diego Free Press in early May, Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation board member Judd Curran stated that the second annual Golden Hill Street Fair was ...
Cocktail casual at the Turf
If you can stomach some ’tude with your food, hit the Turf Supper Club in Golden Hill.
Missing from Golden Hill: Yoshi
Abducted by man who tears down posters?
Yoshi, a white, three-year-old, female terrier mix has been missing since September 7 of last year. The owner has contacted a police detective because, as the “missing” poster notes, “The people who found Yoshi are ...
Whatcha gonna do when your well runs dry?
Water in that there hill
The city is drilling a test well for water at 32nd and B streets in Golden Hill.
New Mural at Golden Hill’s Jaroco Market
Artist pleased with imperfect outcome
On Wednesday, May 29, local artist Giancarlo Pia installed his first outdoor large-scale mural — on the north wall of Jaroco Market at the corner of 25th and B streets. At approximately 17’5” wide by ...
Going Socialist at Sobaka
Kafe Sobaka/Restoran Pomegranate offers Ed Bedford plate sizes ranging from “Communist” to “Imperialist.”
Free Spirits in Golden Hill
C funk (that is the name he goes by), used to own an identical military issued jacket purchased from a thrift shop, but a couple of Marines made him hand it over. "They said it ...
Golden Hill post office becomes residential
Multistory structure added to back of lot
Major renovation is under way at 2692 C Street, the address that was previously home to George Washington Station, the post office that served Golden Hill from the '60s until it closed permanently in February ...
Sulo King buys Black Box Studio, changes name to Iacon Sound
We buy a lot of bulbs
“I realized that booking and promoting shows was a risky business to be in, and it wasn’t a sufficient way to make a living,” says Sulo King, whose career in concert promotion included a trouble-plagued ...
