The Best Food & Drink Events This Month: November 2015
San Diego Bay Food + Wine Festival, San Diego Beer Week, SOMMCON
AleSmith Gets Super-Sized
A beloved company morphs from a medium-small brewery into a facility with a 250,000-barrel capacity and the largest tasting room in San Diego.
FIRST LOOK: Duke’s La Jolla
One of San Diego’s most iconic restaurant spots finally gets new life
FIRST LOOK: The Nolen
The Gaslamp gets a new rooftop cocktail den
San Diego’s Top Taco Deals
Find the best Taco Tuesdays and beyond at 16 local eateries
Masa Gets Its Moment
Mexican food’s most overlooked ingredient is stepping back into the spotlight
San Diego’s New Taco Movement
The taco is San Diego’s next big thing. Please mess with my taco.
Road Trip: Baja Bound
While San Diego embraces its newfound love for elevated Mexican cuisine, Baja Norte has been upping its culinary game for nearly a decade. It’s time you took a weekend, or three, and ate your way through a Mexican vacation. Here’s your hit list.
Inside the Icon: Rubio’s Original Fish Taco
The story behind San Diego’s unofficial mascot
Eat This: Yellowtail Tiradito with Uni
Verde y Crema, by Hermosillo-born chef Jair Tellez, is named after the restaurant’s grounds, formerly the headquarters and parking lot for Tijuana’s “green and cream” city buses. Tellez is famous for his Valle de Guadalupe restaurant, Laja, and he hired emerging chef Martin Vargas to oversee this border offshoot. It features local artists’ murals and […]
Burgers Without Borders
Tijuana is putting a gourmet spin on the quintessential American sandwich
Here, Taste This: Brewing Up Breakfast
Coffee beers are a great way to put the fun back into your weekend mornings.
All Hopped Up
Is the “San Diego style” being embraced by more and more beer lovers outside San Diego?
FIRST LOOK: Bistro Du Marche
Acclaimed French chef Jean-Michel Diot unveils his new bistro
Beer in the Boonies
Valley Center Brewing is on a mission to bring San Diego’s craft beer revolution to the rural folk.
The Best Food & Drink Events This Month: October-November 2015
Celebrate the Craft, San Diego Beer Week, San Diego Bay Wine + Food Festival
Best Things I Ate This Month: October 2015
Lamb Burger at Café 21, Vermicelli Noodles at Sovereign Kitchen, Ahi Tacos at The Hake
Yes We Can
Putting beer in cans used to be only for the “pedestrian” brands, but now cans are cooler than ever.
Pedal to the Medals
San Diego brewers bring home a pile of awards from the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Incoming: Liberty Public Market
San Diego’s big public market unveils three big new concepts
Restaurant Review: Water Grill
Water Grill is a stunning ode to a SoCal seafood icon
La Vida Vegan: Rec Yerself
Finding a good vegan burger is like capturing a yeti. Thankfully, there’s Park & Rec.
New Restaurant: Bracero
I Want Your Mex
10 Hot Plates
San Diego restaurant rumors, openings, and coming-soons in October
Sweet Spot: Apple and Fig Dutch Baby Pancake
Don’t forget about Bertrand at Mister A’s. Perched atop San Diego’s world, only George Clooney’s wife knows a better view. Budget tight? Go for happy hour. Or for this fall ditty from pastry chef Amy Simpson: a roasted apple and fig Dutch baby pancake. Served in an oven-hot skillet, the eggy-sweet popover is packed with […]
Very Important Taco: Avocado Taco
Get it at Galaxy Taco
