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Craft Cocktails? How About Draft Cocktails?
So now I’m across the road, and, you might say, across the social divide. Clue: bunch of fixies leaning on each other outside. Big open barn space inside, original brick exposed on all walls, ancient redwood rafters. Looks like, opened …
King of Quiz
“Okay, first question,” says Tom. He’s standing on the stage where Napoleon Complex will be playing later. “More people are killed by donkeys worldwide than die in plane crashes every year. True or shit?” This is quiz night at U-31, …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Nine
With roughly 500 events from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls, San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two about craft beer and our local scene …
Kebabalicious!
Here is the news: The Middle East has just conquered Europe and is making serious advances across North America. You don’t believe me? Take a look at my belly. On second thought, better not. Carla and I just got through …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Eight
With roughly 500 events from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls, San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two about craft beer and our local scene. …
Malarkey Going Ubiquitous
Goodbye, Gio's Bistro in La Mesa; hello, Gingham. Brian Malarkey is becoming a one-man chain (a new Cohn?), with cloth-named restaurants -- Seersucker downtown, Burlap in Del Mar, ad now this one, which is expected to open sometime in December. …
Happy (Hour) Blues
Dang. Just missed the Blue Line heading south. Standing at the Fitth Avenue trolley stop. Fifteen minutes to kill. Hmm. Talking of blue… I start wandering down Fifth toward the House of Blues terrazza (1055 Fifth Avenue, downtown, 619-299-2583), filled …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Seven
With roughly 500 events from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls, San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two about craft beer and our local scene. …
Veteran's Day Specials for Vets
At Sea Rocket (30th & Upas, 255-7049), 11/11 brings a "Salute the Troops" dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Three courses of "Navy food" will be served, and $5 from each dinner will be donated to Team Rubicon, supporting disabled …
White Truffle Dinner at Bice
The chefs at Bice (425 Island Avenue, Gaslamp, 619-239-2423) have gotten ahold of an enormous Italian white truffle (worth thousands) and are ready to do some sharing. On November 14 at 7 p.m., they're staging a seven-course white truffle dinner …
Reborn in TJ: Beautiful Claudia's Eggnog Cake
!Qué lástima! I'm at the top of Revolución in TJ, 7th street, and it’s happened. La Belle Claude, my favorite pastry and coffee place, closed! It had always looked recession proof, because locals treated it like their spot on the …
Nobu? No Way. But That’s Okay.
The most popular eatery on Broadway? I’m betting this place right next to the Spreckels Theater. Sushi Deli 2. And picky eaters will say snooty things like “Oh it's just Cali-sushi.” Me: It’s good honest Japanese eats for really good …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Six
With roughly 500 events from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls, San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two about craft beer and our local scene. …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Five
With nearly 500 events -- ranging from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls -- San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two about craft beer and …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Four
With roughly 500 hundred events ranging from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls, San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two about craft beer and our …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Three
With roughly 500 hundred events from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls, San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two about craft beer and our local …
Pizza Revolución?
TJ Week continues! I have just come out from an arcade where artists and musicians are making this feel like you imagine Paris when Paris was hot. Guys selling old books, folk singers singing original songs, people sipping wine, sculptors …
Welcome to Pozolandia!
So after all the sightings of food for the dead, I’m kinda dying for some food myself. Come across this place near Sixth... ...with lots of talk and chat... ...and the bubble of soup in cauldrons. Okay, saucepans. “Pozole,” says …
Bread for the Dead, TJ Style
Down TJ way. Last night. November first was for the kids (like our Halloween). Last night, the second of November, is for adults -- for the serious business of remembering, revisiting loved ones who have passed on. And food's a …
San Diego Beer Week: Day Two
With hundreds of events (448 at the time of this writing) from pint nights to festivals and all-out, multi-venue fermentable free-for-alls, San Diego Beer Week can be confusing…and that’s before you start drinking. Fortunately, I know a thing or two …