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Today's deal makes it even easier to eat, drink , and mingle. For $20 you can get $40 worth of food and drink from The Fleetwood, located in the hopping Gaslamp Quarter. The only restriction on the deal is that you visit before 10 p.m. and order at least one food item. With...
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San Diego native Marcela Valladolid, the chef and host of the Food Network show Mexican Made Easy, recently hosted an event at her brother’s home in Chula Vista to celebrate the impending release of her second cookbook -- Mexican Made Easy -- and share some of her favorite recipes...
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Last weekend, I had the chance to attend a fantastic cooking class that also served as a fundraiser for a great organization, Women’s Empowerment International, a San Diego-based nonprofit whose STAR center in City Heights provides microfinance loans and business services to refugee women. One of their clients, Olivia Laryea, taught the class...
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Still undecided about how you’ll celebrate the 4th? My top pick is Alchemy's 4th of July BBQ & Bicycle Bash in South Park.From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Alchemy's Executive Chef Ricardo Heredia will be firing up the barbecue so you don’t have to. For $12, you can choose from either cider-brined roasted pork (off a whole, 100 pound pig), applewood smoked chicken, Texas-style brisket, or tofu and get two sides included, from a Greek...
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At last weekend’s National Homebrewers Conference, I checked out seminar presentations from two local beer luminaries - Tom Nickel, owner of O’Brien’s Pub, and Peter Zien, owner of AleSmith Brewing Company - who both have exciting new food-related projects on tap. Nickel’s session on Belgian ales featured his funny commentary on a slideshow of photos from his travels (the pub...
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Prepkitchen La Jolla may have been ousted from this year’s Best Restaurants list (the New American eatery took top honors in the takeout category last year), but executive chef Ryan Johnston still has a few more tricks up his sleeve. Every day from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., the restaurant serves up some of the best tapas in town—and at $3.50 a pop (plus happy-hour pricing on the sangria),...
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A culinary sightseeing trip to New York City means that you see a lot of the insides of restaurants and not many museums. It requires fortitude and dedication, many between-meal snacks and sometimes two dinners. Even though I was single-minded in my New York eating mission, I barely scratched the surface of the deliciousness to be had, so there’s plenty left on the must-eat list for the next trip. In case you’re planning to go there to eat anytime soon, here are some highlights:...
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MIHO Gastrotruck, the farm-to-table food truck that made my list of Best Restaurants of 2011, is gearing up to commemorate their first anniversary with a weeklong series of events they're calling a Celebration of Collaboration. A few highlights include Monday, June 13, when they'll pull up to Blind Lady Ale House for a MIHO pint glass giveaway and Wednesday,...
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The corner space at W. Washington and Albatross in Hillcrest has been through a few coffee shop iterations but District Coffee Bar, which moved in and opened for business earlier this month, might be the place most serious about coffee to-date. With a sleek and spare design, the coffeehouse put the focus squarely on their coffee—serving only beans from Chicago/Los Angeles-based Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea (also...
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Residents of either Mission Hills, Hillcrest or North Park will soon have the opportunity to shop and eat, at a new neighborhood market and cafe called SOL, which stands for Seasonal, Local and Organic. SOL’s creators, longtime friends Vince Brown and Jerry Moore, wouldn’t divulge the market’s exact location until the ink dries on their lease, but my money’s on North Park. But they were happy to share their plans for the 4,000 square foot market, where they...
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*Three local chef heavyweights - Brian Malarkey of Searsucker, Antonio Friscia of Stingaree and Andrew Spurgin, formerly of Waters Catering, are teaming up to launch a new event company called Campine, providing unique food experiences spawned from what they call a “culinary + cocktails conspiracy”. Stay tuned to our June edition of the Main Dish newsletter for an in-depth interview with Chef Spurgin, who’ll be heading up...
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Six local restaurants have come together to establish San Diego’s first annual Grass Fed Beef Week, scheduled from June 3 through June 12. Throughout the week, find menu items featuring grass fed beef at these founding restaurants: Alchemy - Meatloaf and another tapa sized item Burger Lounge - all Burgers The Linkery - Shortrib...
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This Saturday’s Japan Earthquake Relief Charity Bazaar will feature a booth coordinated by members of the San Diego Home Coffee Roasters, who are organizing a sale and silent auction of product from local coffee roasters and tea purveyors to benefit the Japanese Red Cross.
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Hillcrest’s Pizza Fusion has closed, but by early July, a new restaurant should be popping up in its place. The co-founders of Eco Caters, an all-organic catering company with locations in San Diego and L.A., have taken over the space and renamed it Local Habit. The team is currently testing recipes, but they plan to utilize the built-in pizza oven to create 11-inch Napoletana-style pizzas, available with white, wheat and gluten-free...
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Hello from Rancho La Puerta! I’m here at the 3,000-acre health spa for a couple days of hands-on cooking classes with Deborah Madison, the founding chef of San Francisco’s Greens Restaurant, one of the first farm-to-table restaurants in the area. Deborah’s written 11 cookbooks, including award-winners such as Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors, Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers...
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