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Something to Savor

We always love the Best Restaurants issue, and it is even more fun coming out in June——just in time for long, light evenings. Some of our favorite spots are included, and there are others we look forward to trying.

We were wondering why food critic David Nelson failed to come up with even one choice in the Best Vegetarian restaurant category. It is the only category in which he did not make a choice. Is it because he did not care for the food selections served at any vegetarian restaurant in San Diego, didn’t review vegetarian restaurants or just couldn’t choose because they are all so wonderful?

There are many readers who are focusing on a healthier lifestyle, which includes eating more of a plant-based diet, and we would have appreciated his opinion on the vegetarian restaurants in San Diego.

JES HINRICHS
LA COSTA

David Nelson usually includes mentions of vegetarian options in his reviews of eateries, but he rarely visits exclusively vegetarian places. Our alternating restaurant critic, Robin Kleven Dishon, does review vegetarian restaurants on occasion.——EDITOR

BESTED

Your “Best Restaurants” issue this year is, quite simply, the best. The best you’ve ever done; the best I’ve ever read.

I especially enjoyed David Nelson’s piece on the “Best New Restaurants” (we love Bleu Bohème and Urban Solace) and his look back at “Three Contemporary Restaurants” that have managed to stay “with it” while surviving for many decades. Bertrand at Mr. A’s is so much more than the pretty face that comes with the view. Great dining.

Also, I’m still drooling over Robin Kleven Dishon’s take on all the great burgers out there [“Biting into the Best”]. The photography throughout is beautiful, but the burgers almost had me chomping the paper they’re printed on. Thank you.

LOGAN PETERS
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS

SEEING GREEN

As the only green beauty blogger in San Diego——The Organic Beauty Expert Blog——I found it so nice to see Rowena Kelley’s story about some green home evolution here [“Green Homes on the Boom,” San Diego At Home, April]. She did a nice job covering the basics without the usual soapbox many eco stories take. Makes me want to repaint my condo!

Thanks for sharing the information.

ANDREA KANE
IMPERIAL BEACH

SWEET SOUNDS

As a fledgling fan of both jazz and your magazine, I want to comment on the lovely profile of Jeannie Cheatham [by Phyllis DeBlanche, November 2007]. As my mama would say: “Better late than never.”

What an inspiration! I would love to see the “sparkle in her eye and the joy in her step,” and if I ever get the opportunity to revisit your beautiful city, I will surely be looking for the Sweet Baby Blues Band that “makes dreams out of air.” Thank you, San Diego Magazine, for the insight into such optimism and inner beauty.

My ode to Jeannie Cheatham:
Smoky air
Smelling of whiskey and
The press of sweaty bodies
Swaying
Swinging
Toes tapping to the
Be Bop De Boo Bop
As player after player
Layers the sound
Grooves the scene
In that homey honky-tonk
Where all cats at night are black.

WENDY TERECK
ALAJUELA, COSTA RICA

MATTER OF TASTE

I’d like to correct something in your piece, “Our Town Tees Off” [by Tom Cushman, June], in which you say “Billy Casper emerged from the southern suburb of Chula Vista during the late ’50s with a developing bulk and appetite for quirky diets (such as whale-meat steaks).”

I had lunch and played bridge with Billy Casper the other day and asked him about the whale-meat steaks. He doesn’t eat whale meat; it’s buffalo steaks that are his favorite.

DEBBIE HEDENBERG
LA JOLLA

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