SAN DIEGO CITYBEAT FOOD ISSUE: Best-kept-secret ethnic eateries
The types of places featured on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show, Diners, Drive Ins and Dives, are generally not the restaurants I want to frequent. As I’ve observed in the past, “What makes [the show]...
View ArticleTHRILLIST: Pho is everywhere in SD, but is most of it even good?
One day, pho in San Diego did not exist. The next day, seemingly, it was ubiquitous. San Diego experienced an influx of Vietnamese immigrants from the mid ’70s and onward, resulting in the...
View ArticleTHRILLIST: San Diego’s 10 Best Neighborhoods for Dining Out, Ranked
San Diego’s city fathers and mothers (not to mention planners) are keen on telling us that ours is a “City of Neighborhoods.” They lied when they said it, and they lie now. San Diego is not a city of...
View ArticleCITYBEAT RESTAURANT GUIDE 2017: Off the Strip (San Diego’s best Asian food...
When most people think about Asian food in San Diego they think about the Convoy District. They’re certainly not all wrong to do so. San Diego doesn’t have a “Chinatown” or a “Little Tokyo” (though it...
View ArticleWORLD FARE: Hipster Vietnamese at Shank & Bone
There’ll never be a need to outlaw North Park. Long before then, the place will have sacrificed itself in a supernova of ironic circularity. Or, perhaps, it’ll be consumed in a black hole of its own...
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