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Liberty lunch for the office crowd
Officine Buona can get you out the door in 30 minutes
You have a choice of about 30 eateries at Liberty Public Market, but if you’re taking a quick workday lunch break you’d do well to check out neighboring Officine Buona Forchetta, a recent expansion of ...
Skydive dive
Indoor skydiving place has cafe for decompressing
It’s not what you expect to find next door to Father Joe’s, but right on the corner of 14th and Imperial you can now join the craze for indoor skydiving and then nosh on a ...
Pig meets ramen
Tajima and Carnitas’ Snack Shack join forces
Tajima’s new Adams Avenue locale, discreetly lodged between a French bistro and a coffee house, was thoroughly covered by Reader writer Patrick Henderson shortly after it opened. New since his visit, however, is a flash-in-the-pan ...
Tin Fork
Alpha Project opens its first restaurant
Pizza, pasta, panini, and programs
Oh, man. Two steps forward, one step back. People have had their hopes raised a lot for this end of East Village. First, Quartyard opened, was a raging success, then it closed. Then that sidewalk ...
Beer News
San Diego brewers fare well, awards-wise
QUAFF wins again, while state fair more than fair to locals
Several San Diego breweries added to their awards caches at the state fair over the weekend. Local homebrewers also made their prowess known, both on state and national levels. San Diego beer companies claimed 25 ...
40 ounces of Alesmith
Fluid commemoration of Sublime's 25th year since breakout album
For a brief time this summer, one of San Diego beer's most recognized brands will be selling brew in a 40-ounce bottle. AleSmith Brewing has teamed up with Long Beach reggae-punk band Sublime to release ...
Booze News
Henebery brings production home
Legacy whiskey brand opens tasting room and distillery in Vista
Producing whiskey requires fermented grain, a still, a barrel, and patience. Henebery Spirits has shown plenty of the latter. Jesse Fanning launched Henebery in 2013 with his wife Natalie and her family, including parents Annette ...
Pour Over
Mineral mastery brings barista bronze
Mr. Coffee doesn’t know anything about tofu coagulants
A local barista was named one of the nation’s best in April. Competing at the U.S. Coffee Championships in Seattle, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters quality control manager Jacob White placed third in the Specialty Coffee ...
Set 'em Up Joe
A moonshine cocktail that pairs well with steak
Preston Cobb shares recipe for Blackberry Basil Lemonade from Farmer's Table
Farmer’s Table bar manager Preston Cobb says the establishment’s Blackberry basil lemonade, served up in a Mason jar, fits in at the organic eatery as well as stanchions in a milking parlor or feed troughs ...
Here's the Deal
Banzai! Dollar Bud drafts when the Pads win
Equal parts tiki lounge, sports bar, and surfer haunt
Cousins Chad Cline and Jason “Rocky” Nichols come from a long lineage of dives. Their great-grandfather purchased the Waterfront Bar (whose liquor license dates back to the end of Prohibition) around the late ‘60s. While ...
