San Diego Reader

• Chollas View
• City Heights
• Feast! Restaurant Reviews

Larb at first sight

Ed eats another salad, this time with beef bile and fermented fish

You don't think of "Asian" and "salad" in the same breath. But here I am up in the wilds of 47th street, heading behind a garage/tire shop. Looking for a low building with the sun-faded ...

• Ed Bedford
• January 9, 2014
• 1 comment

• Chollas Creek
• Chollas View
• Feast! Restaurant Reviews

Trevi: Ten inch pizza deal in the wilds of Chollas Creek

It’s the first oasis after you cross the deserted canyons from City Heights.

These are desperate times. I’ve promised Carla a meal and it’s heading for nine o’clock at night and I’m still traipsing across the bridges over the open wound they call Chollas Creek. No bus, no ...

• Ed Bedford
• June 12, 2013
• Comment

• Chollas View
• Neighborhood News
• San Carlos
• Santee

New San Diego City Council members’ budget requests

Reopening of Kumeyaay Lake, new fire station, and more

The June 10 San Diego City Council 2014 budget deliberations will include requests from two new councilmembers for funds to reopen the Mission Trails Regional Park campground known as Kumeyaay Lake. Fifth District councilman Mark ...

• Liz Swain
• June 10, 2013
• 1 comment

• Chollas View
• Neighborhood News

Citizens practice for budget hearings in Chollas View

Infrastructure needs prioritized

After a presentation on the City of San Diego's proposed 2014 budget, participants at a May 4 Community Budget Alliance event learned how to write and give testimony of two minutes or less during the ...

• Liz Swain
• May 7, 2013
• Comment

• Chollas View
• Feast! Restaurant Reviews

Best place to get a cheap plate of "crying tiger" in Chollas View

If anything could metaphysically counterbalance the Snooty Asian (hip and in Hillcrest) it would be the Asia Cafe (4710 Market Street, 619-527-1917), which has iron bars on the windows and shares a parking lot with ...

• Ian Pike
• April 29, 2013
• Comment