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, […]
FIRST LOOK: Stella Public House & Halcyon
East Village gets coffeehouse, pizza, craft drinks and s’mores roasted tableside—under one roof
FIRST LOOK: Stella Public House & Halcyon
East Village gets coffeehouse, pizza, craft drinks and s’mores roasted tableside—under one roof
Faces of Baja: Drew Deckman
Why a Michelin-starred chef cooks under pine trees in Mexico’s wine country
Faces of Baja: Drew Deckman

Why a Michelin-starred chef cooks under pine trees in Mexico’s wine country
The Best Food & Drink Events This Month: November-December 2014

San Diego Bay Food & Wine Festival, Death for Food, Gingerbread House Competition
The Best Food & Drink Events This Month: November-December 2014
San Diego Bay Food & Wine Festival, Death for Food, Gingerbread House Competition
Best Things I Ate This Month: November 2014

Chile Relleno Taco at City Tacos, Fall Squash Salad at Sea & Smoke, Huli Huli Chicken at Sea180
Best Things I Ate This Month: November 2014
Chile Relleno Taco at City Tacos, Fall Squash Salad at Sea & Smoke, Huli Huli Chicken at Sea180
FIRST LOOK: S&M Sausage & Meat
Behold the new fleshy concept from the Slater’s 50/50 camp
FIRST LOOK: S&M Sausage & Meat
Behold the new fleshy concept from the Slater’s 50/50 camp
San Diego Beer Week 2014

Hop, skip, and tap your way through Beer Week with these specialty pairings, tap takeovers, crafty cookies, barley body wraps, and flights galore
San Diego Beer Week 2014
Hop, skip, and tap your way through Beer Week with these specialty pairings, tap takeovers, crafty cookies, barley body wraps, and flights galore
FIRST LOOK: Stake Chophouse & Bar
The first photos in the known universe of Coronado’s new modern steakhouse.
FIRST LOOK: Stake Chophouse & Bar
The first photos in the known universe of Coronado’s new modern steakhouse.