Banana Man Across the aisle, is another table like yours neatly stacked with oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, papayas, and other fruits. That table, as well as the rack against the wall, are refrigerated. Your table is ...
January 31, 2021
Weinstein was recruited by Kathleen Woodward to write restaurant reviews for the Reader. He won a writing contest in 1976, writing about Mission Beach. In 1989, he was interviewed by Judith Moore, and he was encouraged to write other stories for the Reader in the 1990s. Weinstein later became restaurant critic for New York's Village Voice.
Articles by Jeff Weinstein
Apple Tree's produce man talks, writer joins Gulf Coast Grill cooks, donut immersion
What was thought hot 45 years ago
1973 San Diego guide to San Diego guidebooks What Neil Morgan never told you. 1973 San Diego guide to the San Diego Reader Who are these people? 1973 San Diego guide to cheesecake Supermarket, specialty ...
January 5, 2019
Village Voice food critic Jeff Weinstein revisits his gustatory past in San Diego
There's an unbroken line from highchair to dining chair that follows my profile faithfully.
May 1, 1997
Last suppers ordered by inmates on Texas's death row
My friend James recently left an astounding list on my desk: "Final Meals Requested by Inmates Executed in Texas." Two pages, 34 names (all men), 28 meals. He picked it up from a Mr. Brown, ...
November 21, 1990
San Diego overview – writing contest winner
san diego, lyrics: mr. history looks down on the city i don’t want you to think san diego sounds funny. i don’t understand why the most powerful feeling this city evokes, at sunset, a sort ...
December 9, 1976
1973 San Diego guide to a year of restaurant reviews
Small Bites From A Year’s Feast of Reviews The Blue Man “...This tiny French restaurant, located in the unlikely town of Lemon Grove, is the most exciting one I’ve discovered in the four years I've ...
October 4, 1973
Jeff Weinstein flays the Prophet Vegetarian Restaurant
I asked for a dinner of stuffed mushrooms, and was served a visually beautiful dish of dark circlets sitting in white glistening sauce, out of which bean sprouts grew like hair.
March 29, 1973
L'Auberge on Carmel Valley Road
In a previous column I suggested that one kind of restaurant which deserves to be the object of review is the "pretentious-enough-to-warrant-some-kind-of-critical-response" establishment, because "the public should not be ripped-off." Calling attention to shortcomings is ...
March 15, 1973
What to say about a Tijuana restaurant
The menu changes every day. Every day! That went out years ago in most places. They do real cooking, so you can always say "the cook got drunk and the cat fell in the stew" or something.
February 15, 1973