Sign up for our eNewsletterBy Frank Sabatini Jr. | Restaurant Review Worldly foods and beers create an international delight Step slightly outside the Gaslamp Quarter and into Broadway Circle and you’ll encounter Tapas & Beers, a casual yet stylish restaurant specializing in Spanish, French and American dishes. The cuisine is represented by flags of those countries looming from an interior […]
By Frank Sabatini Jr. | Restaurant Review Cafe 21 brings detail and originality to the table For those stuck on tacos, burgers, ramen and other hyped-to-death fare, Cafe 21’s poetically structured dishes will seem like the wheel was reinvented. It’s the kind of food that doesn’t jibe to any particular category and tastes as pretty as it […]
Cloak & Petal, a Japanese flair worth experiencing
“Argentinians are obsessed with empanadas,” said Matias Rigali, a Buenos Aires transplant who began selling the savory-filled pastries at local farmers markets before opening Empanada Kitchen in February along the trolley tracks on C Street.
The latest venture from Blue Bridge Hospitality is a brightly designed eatery that loosely follows the paths taken by naval tours in and around the Western Pacific.
Lolita’s Mexican Food is one of the longest-running chains of Mexican eateries in San Diego County, right up there in age with Rubio’s and Roberto’s.
Nary a photograph of Athens or Santorini island hang inside Meze Greek Fusion. The typical aesthetics seen in most Greek restaurants, such as blue and white walls, are completely missing while the menu succumbs slightly to the culinary influences of Mexico, Italy and California.
So what if it wasn’t “ice cream weather” when I took my maiden plunge into Salt & Straw, the hyped ice cream maker out of Portland, Oregon, that debuted here in December.
The 10,000-square-foot market encompasses sections brimming with hot and cold foods, plus a pizza kitchen and a marble-topped bar where beer, wine, coffee and house-baked pastries are served. It spans the ground floor of the MCS Orchard Plaza, a sleek multi-story commercial building located at 555 W. Beech St.
By Frank Sabatini Jr.
It’s the Noah’s Ark of eating and drinking establishments, stretching more than a half city block to take on scores of consumers fleeing the floods of pedestrians inherent to the very street it resides.