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Trend for 2013: Designer moonshine ushers in the Tub-to-Table movement.

Every Last Drop

Imagine waiting 12 hours for your morning cup of coffee. That sounds like a slow, tortuous death by caffeine deficiency. The Kyoto drip at Café Moto takes 12 hours to brew, a process they’ve mastered, down to the droplet. The Yama Cold Brew Drip Tower ($350-$400) looks more science project than coffee maker. The three-tier system is topped with a vat attached to a drip nozzle. Cold water drops singularly (one drop every two seconds) into a beaker holding 9.2 ounces of finely ground coffee. The droplet travels downward, extracting everything possible from the...

Posted Friday, May 17, 2013, 04:33PM | Permalink

Burgers Will Save Us All

“It’s a good ****ing product." Jay Porter is a tad defensive, albeit chuckling. I’ve asked the renown San Diego food progressive why he did it. His restaurant The Linkery was among...

Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 04:33PM | Permalink

Best Things I Ate This Month: May Main Dish

Kumamoto Oysters at Addison Recently had the meal of my life at Addison. I’ve had four-hour feasts in the past, lucky to be...

Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 02:27PM | Permalink

Top Food Events: May Main Dish

I LOVE POKE FESTIVAL May 29, 6-9PM When I last encountered Nino Camilo, founder of the I Love Poke Festival and author of San Diego’s official map of musubi (Spam sushi), I asked: “So what do you do for a living.” He replied,...

Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 02:22PM | Permalink

San Diego's Top Bartenders

From left: Jen Queen, Ryan Fisher, Nate Howell ...

Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 11:27AM | Permalink

SD FOOD NEWS: April 25

That majestic, oddly built perch in Del Mar recently vacated by Flavor? The owners of El Agave will take it over and expand the El Agave concept north with an opening slated for August. This is a flurry of expansion for...

Posted Thursday, April 25, 2013, 04:40PM | Permalink

INCOMING: Lucky Liu's

In Downtown San Diego, there's a lot of Asian fusion, from Gaijin to Gang Kitchen and J.Wok. But Chinese? Uh, Panda Inn? Alex Thao—the San Diego native restaurateur behind Rama and

Posted Thursday, April 18, 2013, 03:45PM | Permalink

The Best Things I Ate This Month: April Main Dish

Maple Bacon Donuts @ Great Maple A quick survey of my list this month reveals: Oh, yep, that’s where I got the extra five pounds. Johnny Rivera, the hyperactively creative brain behind Hash House A-Go-Go and Tractor Room, recently took over Brian’s American...

Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 11:56AM | Permalink

Top Food Events: April Main Dish

Chef Paul McCabe of La Valencia ...

Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 11:56AM | Permalink

Market Price

Anyone who’s been to Seattle’s Pike Place has said, “Wish my city had this.” Now San Diego does. Well, part of it. San Diego Public Market is the dream toil of Dale Steele and Catt White—two local icons who worked together on the San Diego...

Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 11:54AM | Permalink

SD FOOD NEWS: APRIL 5

Matt Gordon—chef-owner of the growing restaurant group that includes Urban Solace, Solace & The Moonlight Lounge and the upcoming Sea and Smoke at Flower Hill Promenade—has made two good hires. First he pulled in Ryan Studebaker, formerly...

Posted Friday, April 5, 2013, 03:27PM | Permalink

GO, EAT, DRINK, DO

Polite Provisions is currently the apex of cocktails in San Diego. The new Normal Heights bar from Consortium Holdings (Neighborhood, Craft...

Posted Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 01:21PM | Permalink

The Breakthrough

As this interview with...

Posted Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:46PM | Permalink

NEW STUFF: Chíngón Hot Sauces

A little more on Chíngón Hot Sauce, which we featured in the mag proper this month because, well, we have more space on the internets. Like all the worthy slang,...

Posted Monday, March 25, 2013, 05:04PM | Permalink