Reviews

El Reubeno Pastrami Sandwich at The Prado in Balboa Park (San Diego, CA)

The Prado's El Reubeno Pastramo at Balboa Park in San Diego, CA

While visiting San Diego, CA we spent a morning walking around Balboa Park, adjacent to the San Diego Zoo. Both attractions are must visits when in San Diego. The time was approaching lunch and after enjoying the attractions at the park, we were to head an hour north to the Temecula Valley to spend the …

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Blue Water Seafood Market & Grill – San Diego, CA

Blue Water Seafood Market & Grill - Three Fish Tacos

Recently I have had dinner with friends at the Blue Water Seafood Market & Grill in San Diego, CA. What I did not know until we walked in to the restaurant was that the place had been featured by Guy Fieri, of Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I quickly recalled the episode which I …

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Beers That Have Had A Lasting Impact On Me

Millet Beer in a Calabash Bowl

It was by coincidence that my coming of legal drinking age was also marked by the birth of craft and regional breweries. I remember when Samuel Adams Lager was still considered David among the Goliaths that had dominated and decimated the beer industry for a couple of decades. Back then I thought that Samuel Adams …

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West Coast Winner of a Wiener – Wienerschnitzel

Chicago Dog from Wienerschitzel

It must be the consistently good weather in Southern California that allows for the business model of a fast food restaurant to have no indoor seating and just a few concrete tables outside with ordering of the food either through a drive through or walk up window. Wienerschnitzel is not so impressive that the masses …

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Lunch Review – The French Gourmet (San Diego, CA)

The French Gourmet Restaurant - San Diego, CA (Pacific Beach)

Dinner at the The French Gourmet Restaurant was so enjoyable, that we went back to the bistro for lunch a few days later prior to leaving San Diego, CA. The French Gourmet Restaurant is a French Bistro and Bakery located at 960 Turquoise Street • San Diego, CA 92109 in the section of the city …

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