Best Things I Ate This Month: December 2014

Chicken Dinner at Land & Water Co., Lamb Pappardelle at Bottega Americano, Beet Salad at Blue Fire Grill
Best Things I Ate This Month: December 2014
Chicken Dinner at Land & Water Co., Lamb Pappardelle at Bottega Americano, Beet Salad at Blue Fire Grill
The Controversy: Death for Food

Creator Jaime Fritsch on the uproar his food event caused.
The Controversy: Death for Food
Creator Jaime Fritsch on the uproar his food event caused.
FIRST LOOK: Double Standard
New modern Italian eatery opens in huge corner spot Downtown
FIRST LOOK: Double Standard
New modern Italian eatery opens in huge corner spot Downtown
10 Hot Plates

Rumors, openings, & coming-soons
10 Hot Plates
Rumors, openings, & coming-soons
Restaurant Review: Sea180

Getting lost in the shuffle at a nice waterside restaurant
Restaurant Review: Sea180
Getting lost in the shuffle at a nice waterside restaurant
Sweet Spot: Black Walnut Tart

We’d eat anything sweet made by San Diego’s pastry king Jack Fisher, especially during the holidays. This ginger spiced black walnut tart with pomegranate jam and crême fraîche gelato on the menu at Jsix downtown is like Christmas on a plate. Jsix, inside Hotel Solamar, 616 J Street Sweet Spot: Black Walnut Tart Photo by […]
Sweet Spot: Black Walnut Tart
We’d eat anything sweet made by San Diego’s pastry king Jack Fisher, especially during the holidays. This ginger spiced black walnut tart with pomegranate jam and crême fraîche gelato on the menu at Jsix downtown is like Christmas on a plate. Jsix, inside Hotel Solamar, 616 J Street Sweet Spot: Black Walnut Tart Photo by […]
Very Important Taco: Baja-style Veggie Taco

Blind Burro
Very Important Taco: Baja-style Veggie Taco
Blind Burro
Trend: Craft Cider

With production doubling year over year and sales climbing towards $1 billion nationwide, craft cider is heading for the mainstream fast. People have been drinking hard apple cider for centuries, but today, with surging interest in craft beer (and local craft everything), ciders are on the rise again. It helps that the booze is completely […]
Trend: Craft Cider
With production doubling year over year and sales climbing towards $1 billion nationwide, craft cider is heading for the mainstream fast. People have been drinking hard apple cider for centuries, but today, with surging interest in craft beer (and local craft everything), ciders are on the rise again. It helps that the booze is completely […]
New Years Eve: Jazz & Bubbles

For anyone looking to go out on New Year’s Eve, but not up for crowds and Uber price-gouging, Roppongi in La Jolla’s got a nice offering. New executive chef Alfie Szeprethy is offering a classic prix-fixe menu for $74 with surf and turf options, and jazz saxophonist Ian Tordella will be performing live. There are […]
New Years Eve: Jazz & Bubbles
For anyone looking to go out on New Year’s Eve, but not up for crowds and Uber price-gouging, Roppongi in La Jolla’s got a nice offering. New executive chef Alfie Szeprethy is offering a classic prix-fixe menu for $74 with surf and turf options, and jazz saxophonist Ian Tordella will be performing live. There are […]
Home-Cooked Meals in Tijuana

Cooler temperatures bring a yearning for comfort food and home-cooked meals. Meet La Carmelita, a new-wave food truck known for cocina de hogar (home cooking), and part of the new Telefónica Gastro Park in Tijuana. Order its version of fideo seco, short pieces of dry pasta noodles crusted in tortilla, lying in a tomato broth […]
Home-Cooked Meals in Tijuana
Cooler temperatures bring a yearning for comfort food and home-cooked meals. Meet La Carmelita, a new-wave food truck known for cocina de hogar (home cooking), and part of the new Telefónica Gastro Park in Tijuana. Order its version of fideo seco, short pieces of dry pasta noodles crusted in tortilla, lying in a tomato broth […]
Holiday Cooking Classes

Just in time for the holidays, a chic new downtown bake shop teaches the art of cookie-making, pie-baking and more.
Holiday Cooking Classes
Just in time for the holidays, a chic new downtown bake shop teaches the art of cookie-making, pie-baking and more.
Where to Eat: S&M Sausage and Meat

Scott Slater is the guy who ground up as much bacon as he did beef to make the namesake burgers at Slater’s 50/50. So it’s no surprise that his next concept, S&M Sausage and Meat, is centered around combining wild and exotic carne of all kinds. Kangaroo sausage, anyone? Antelope andouille? Hungarian Kielbasa? Chef Mark […]
Where to Eat: S&M Sausage and Meat
Scott Slater is the guy who ground up as much bacon as he did beef to make the namesake burgers at Slater’s 50/50. So it’s no surprise that his next concept, S&M Sausage and Meat, is centered around combining wild and exotic carne of all kinds. Kangaroo sausage, anyone? Antelope andouille? Hungarian Kielbasa? Chef Mark […]
New Restaurant: Stake Chophouse + Bar
There’s no stronger restaurant cliché than the mahogany, leather-boothed steakhouse with servers in butler tuxes. It’s carnivore pageantry. And it will have no place at Stake Chophouse + Bar, a modern riff on the butter-and-blood scene. Stake is the sixth concept in Coronado from Blue Bridge Hospitality (which also owns Leroy’s). The team is phenomenal, […]
New Restaurant: Stake Chophouse + Bar

There’s no stronger restaurant cliché than the mahogany, leather-boothed steakhouse with servers in butler tuxes. It’s carnivore pageantry. And it will have no place at Stake Chophouse + Bar, a modern riff on the butter-and-blood scene. Stake is the sixth concept in Coronado from Blue Bridge Hospitality (which also owns Leroy’s). The team is phenomenal, […]