The French Gourmet is certainly living up to its name, with superior quality, variety, and reasonable prices. The restaurant receives 4 out of 5 starfish from 10-year old award winning critic Perry Chen.
Stone Brewing Company – Local brewery offering a new take on an old tradition
July 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Local San Diego brewery, Stone Brewing Company is revolutionizing beer. All you beer enthusiasts may think you know your stuff. You may think that you’ve tried it all—the sweet, the bitter, the in-between—but ask yourself this: have you ever delighted you taste buds to the refreshing taste of a sour beer? If the answer is no, it’s about time that you make your way to Stone Brewery in Escondido.
Point Loma Restaurant Jimmy’s Famous American Tavern offers New Perspective on Traditional Cuisine
April 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a city that locovores love, with abundant farm fresh produce, and fancy organic faire, the concept off Jimmy’s does not seem too far fetched. Jimmy’s Famous American Tavern, or J-FAT, is another restaurant that supports farms, ranches, and fisheries that are guided by principles of sustainability. You may find locally grown and fresh ingredients at Jimmy’s but that’s not the drawing point. What truly sets Jimmy’s apart is the down home comfort food.
California Beers to Try Right Now
February 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
eer selection in California can be compared to wine selection in Europe. There are hundreds of breweries popping up throughout California showing off IPA’s, lagers, stouts, fruity beers, darker-than-Guinness-beers, organic beers, and much much more. Not all of the breweries are producing top grade beers, but these six beers are from breweries that have captured the hearts of true beer enthusiasts and amateurs alike.
Cuckoo for cupcakes – San Diego’s newest cupcakery opens with a bang
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The place to be last Saturday night was not some swanky downtown lounge, fancy restaurant, or crowded club in the Gaslamp – it was a bakery. Cups is a new all organic cupcakery in downtown La Jolla whose grand opening celebration on January 30 was a tremendous success. Not only do the more than 50 varieties of cupcakes make this bakery unique; everything they serve is made in-house with the highest quality, local, sustainable, organic ingredients.
Looking for that Extraordinary Valentine’s Day Idea?
January 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching and money still, well tight, coming up with an original date idea can be daunting and, face it, intimidating. Karen Krasne’s Extraordinary Desserts offers couples the perfect, affordable setting, to intimately connect and oh yea eat amazing dessert! With locations in Balboa Park and Little Italy the widely acclaimed dessert restaurant offers a wide variety of decadent sweets that range from “dark chocolate tea cookies with organic pecans” to “berry devonshire tarts,”there is no doubt a dessert to satisfy every palate.
Cohn Restaurant Group expands their culinary empire
December 30, 2009 By 1 Comment
Cohn Restaurant Group expands with the opening of their newest restaurant, the La Jolla Strip Club, serving grill your own steaks and a vodka bar. The CRG took their highly successful Downtown Strip Club theme of a 21-and-up, “grill your own” steak restaurant and duplicated it in the University Town Center (UTC) area of San Diego.
Tasty Takes – Roast Duck, and Tips on Ordering Dim Sum
October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dim sum is not as easy to find in San Diego as in Los Angeles, but if you want to avoid the traffic, parking fees and the chaos of a huge dim sum restaurant, go to Emerald Restaurant on Convoy. The roast duck is always a treat. The fatty skin that separates from the meat is really the star of the show. It’s juicy and crispy and full of flavor.
Executive Chef Craig Strong brings his modern French cuisine with California influences to Studio at the Montage in Laguna beach
October 19, 2009 By 2 Comments
Montage chef Craig Strong uses fresh and local ingredients, keeping that traditional French taste with a fresh California touch. The food is beautifully presented, and the flavors are unsurpassed. All I can say is go try it for yourself and tell Chef Strong I sent you.
Gas Lamp Pizza, Simply The Best In Downtown!
October 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Simply put, this is a small, hole-in-the-wall pizza place that everyone knows about but rarely talks about. But if you ask anyone in downtown San Diego, “Where can I find a good slice of pizza?” they’ll point you to Gas Lamp Pizza—and they’ll most likely use adjectives like, “amazing”, “incredible” or “face-melting.”
