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Photo by Brevin Blach
DO SAN DIEGANS CARE ABOUT DINING OUT? Passionately. Are we opinionated about what’s best? Intensely. How intensely? Traditionally, our Best Restaurants issues are among the most popular with readers. And readers don’t just peruse them; they use them—month after month, even year after year. They are, in fact, among the most dog-eared San Diego Magazines of all. For lots of reasons.
First, we don’t just ask you what you like. Although we do give you ballots. And we value your votes. But we also tell you what we think you should try. This month, in addition to the readers’ poll results, we bring you oenophile Tom Gable’s scouting guide to the wave of hip new wine bars making a splash all across the region. We give you restaurant critic David Nelson’s take on three eateries that have provided great food and good value for years. Next, Nelson wades in with his own votes for best restaurants. And, not to be outdone, the editor offers up his own picks.
Of course, the issue isn’t devoted entirely to dining. This month, we start with an amuse-bouche in the form of an interview with controversial beauty queen Carrie Prejean, along with a closer look, by associate editor Adam Elder, at the tiny San Diego Christian College where she gets her religion-based education. From there, we whet your appetites with an in-depth Dialogue with one of San Diego’s more successful restaurateurs, Sami Ladeki——of Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza fame. And San Diego At Home editor Rowena Kelley presents the 2009 ASID Design Excellence Awards, a stunning guide to the best in local interior design and homebuilding.
The main course offers a choice of two meaty entrées: a profile of author and globetrotting San Diego professor Mary Duncan by former San Diego Union-Tribune reporter and longtime editor Carl Larsen, and the final installment in S.D. Liddick’s powerful Border Trilogy, which provides some hope for a solution to the bloody drug wars ravaging our neighbor to the south.
It’s a lot to digest in one sitting. We suggest you nibble away at it a bite at a time. And wash it down with a nice Chardonnay or Cabernet. Cheers!
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