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It's All In the Oven
Maybe it was because I was in a rush, but this slice of pizza was a slice of heaven. Was jes' waiting on the trolley at Civic Center and saw that place you trundle past, like every day of your …
Getting’ It Up “Au Natural” at Burlap
Chef Brian Malarkey is well known for giving the entries on his menus names that range from tongue-in-cheek to downright confusing. Only a few weeks in, servers at his new Del Mar Highlands eatery, Burlap, have to be tired answering …
Spicy Goodness
Don't let the "tofu" part of Tofu House fool you: this always-hopping restaurant on Convoy serves plenty of meat, much of it still sizzling on a hot plate when it lands on your table. In fact, the plates at this …
The Eatery in the Architects' Office
Here's how I discovered this hip place in the Barrio: I was standing at the corner. Looking across kitty-corner from the New Mexico Cafe. (Had been eating at its new addition, Viva Birria! What a great birreria.) So, kinda rubbing …
Potato Chips Make for Eye Candy in Chuao's New Chocolate Bar
Potato chips and M&Ms. They seem an odd couple, and I'd never personally mow down on both simultaneously, but growing up, the salty-sweet virtues of this pair were consistently professed to me by my mother, who's always been a fan …
Developers Kill Local Kitchens
In Hillcrest, goodbye to Pizza Nova and to Banana Leaf (the south Indian restaurant owned by the Bombay group). The developer who owns the properties is looking for a lot more money per square foot. Rumors are two midscale chain …
Chick-fil-A Mania to Strike Carmel Mountain
I'm positive that the fast-food chicken outlet visited by Janet Evanovich's semi-suburban New Jersey heroines in her mystery series (Finger-Lickin' Fifteen, Sloppy Sixteen, Slobbery Seventeen, Overweight Eighteen, etc.) is Chick fil-A, skulking around under an assumed name. But I've never …
Red Door's New Chef's Chef's Market Dinner, 9/16
The Red Door Restaurant & Wine Bar’s (741 W. Washington Street, 619-295-6000) upcoming Chef’s Market Dinner is Friday, September 16 at 5 pm. Guests will accompany executive chef Daniel Manrique to the Mission Hills Farmer’s Market to explore and relish …
Roppongi's Fall Fireside Menu
At left: Walla Walla onions Starting September 1, Roppongi's Fireside Menu is switching seasons to fall. Here's a preview of the autumnal tastes you'll find: Note that Walla Wallas are among America's sweetest onions, comparable to Vidalias -- so imagine …
"Sidewalk Chefs" Food Demos
San Diego’s culinary hot shots are hitting the sidewalks this fall for Siesel’s Old-Fashioned Meats Sidewalk Chef Series of free outdoor tastings and culinary demonstrations. The chefs will share exclusive tips and prep demonstrations and insider tricks of the trade …
Dog Days of Summer
Wen it comes to hot dogs, the beautiful Carla is the World's Greatest Critic. But hey, she's like me. Appreciates a bargain. And here at the 8th Street trolley stop in National City, I may have the biggest bargain yet. …
Food Truck Horsepower on Display at the Racetrack
And away they go! No, I'm not talking about the ponies breaking away from the gates down at Old Del Mar. I'm referring to a multitude of food trucks spanning just about every cultural cuisine imaginable as they depart en …
Ambushed by Birria
It's around 1:30 p.m. Walking through the barrio, and all the time being reminded of Tijuana itself. The street life, the food, the friends, the long late lunches. It specially reminds me of it here on Beardsley, as I head …
Fruit Lunch Surprise
Barrio Logan. Wandering down National, hoping to find that El Porvenir is open again... along with Las Cuatro Milpas, the hands-down best burritos in town...because they still use wicked Manteca, of course. But...argh! Just past Beardsley, I see it's still …
For Encinitas, Solace Comes to Those Who Wait
It was over a year ago that I sat in the dining room of North Park's Urban Solace and interviewed chef and restaurant owner Matt Gordon about his upcoming second restaurant, Solace and the Moonlight Lounge (http://www.eatatsolace.com). I was the …
Hot Shot NY Chef Gambles on Dying Medium
David Chang, hot New York chef (founder of the insanely popular Momofuku chain that features Asian street foods in informal (even uncomfortable) settings, including a noodle house and an Asian tapas restaurant, absolutely refuses to do a TV show: “The …
Ideal No More?
It's dark on J. I walk up, stop to touch the Lucky Index Fingernail of Chin - the emperor who created China in 221 BC, and also in his spare time built the Great Wall – his 8-foot-tall bronze statue, …
Take Me To Your Humidore
So after that over-stuffing Happy Hour (at McCormick & Schmick's), what Carla calls the perverse side in me is out, rampant. Need something sweet. Touch of dessert. She's out till ten, so still time. I’m walking down Market. Stop at …
Crazy Hour
Don’t they always say: It’s the poor who pay? The rich don’t have to? Here at McCormick and Schmick’s (675 L Street, in the Omni Hotel downtown, 619-645-6545), I’m testing this out. They’re a chain of business-class eateries that stretch …