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Pizza Port Opens 6th Location in Belmont Park
Calvin Coolidge was president when Belmont Park opened on July 4, 1925. The New Yorker had just published its first issue, and Hawaii and Alaska weren’t yet states. 62 years later, Pizza Port opened...
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3 Michelin-Star Talent Coming to The Headquarters
With Mexico City’s abundance of top-notch restaurants and bar programs alongside its vibrant culture, it’s no wonder that skilled chefs and beverage directors are turning their eyes toward its capital...
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San Diego Brewing Company Gets New Owners & a Refresh
Most San Diego breweries are Gen Z or even Gen Alpha. But like Karl Strauss, Coronado Brewing, and AleSmith, San Diego Brewing Company (SDBC) is a solid Millennial, more Instagram than TikTok, with...
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Former Wayfarer Pastry Chef Opening New Bakery
Adrian Mendoza is no stranger to early mornings. He’s worked as a pastry chef for years at places like Wayfarer Bread & Pastry, Herringbone, Herb & Wood, and Searsucker. But when he opens...
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First Look: Donut Bar Opens in Little Italy
A former professional motorcycle racer opens a donut shop that becomes a viral sensation. Then, he decides to write a children’s cookbook and move his empire into a new space that features an...
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4 of the Hottest New Brunch Spots in San Diego
ARLO Mission Valley First came the cronut, now there’s the croffle. Order a croissant waffle at ARLO’s new weekend brunch at the Town and Country Resort, which also features bottomless mimosas and… a...
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Newport’s Shorebird Restaurant Coming To Seaport Village
Seaport Village is in the midst of a badly needed, very overdue revamp. It’s going to cost millions and take a long time, but if everything goes according to plan, it’ll be worth it. A number of...
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Famed Mexican Seafood Eatery La Corriente Lands in La Jolla
In the footsteps of Tacos El Franc, another iconic Mexican eatery has landed in San Diego. La Corriente, the lauded Mexican seafood restaurant in Tijuana, Mexicali, Mazatlán, Monterrey, and Mexico...
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Non-Alcoholic Bars Aren’t Just Serving Glorified Juice
Grace Mestecky swears her zero-proof Smoke and Mirrors cocktail tastes so much like a typical old fashioned that people can’t believe it isn’t one. The mix of non-alcoholic whiskey, black cardamom,...
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New Restaurant Lana Taking Over CPK in Solana Beach
Change is hard, especially after 32 years. California Pizza Kitchen has been a stalwart spot on South Highway 101 since 1992 and will close up shop at the end of this week for good. But Solana Beach...
View ArticleFirst Look: Brickmans at Lakehouse Resort
A golf course restaurant is often a place for sweaty people in visors to house a club sandwich, a carb-and-bacon bulwark against all those tall boys chugged on the links. But The Lakehouse Resort’s...
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First Look: Gravity Heights’ Newest Location Opens
As a society, we’ve finally moved on from normalizing industrial garages cosplaying as legitimate taprooms. No more sinking into secondhand furniture or leaning on stacks of rickety pallets in dusty...
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Little Victory Wine Bar Coming to Carlsbad
North County is getting its first natural wine bar this year. Jeremy Simpson and Kirsten Potenza will open the next iteration of their Little Victory natural wine business in Carlsbad in the fall....
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First Look: Tanner’s Prime Burgers
Sometime in 2018 or 2019—he’s not sure exactly which—Brandon Rodgers called Eric Brandt. At the time, Rodgers was chef de cuisine at Benu, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco. He’d...
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Rose Cafe Blooms in South Oceanside
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming an astronaut. I dressed up like Neil Armstrong for Hero Day, I asked for a telescope for Christmas, and memorized constellations to share their mythical backstories with...
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Birria El Rey Opening Brick & Mortar in Golden Hill
Golden Hill’s Birria El Rey is the best kind of taco truck. There are only a few tables on a sidewalk next to a parking lot and laundromat, but what they lack in seating, they more than make up for...
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Basic Pizza Closing in East Village
When Jon Mangini opened Basic Pizza in 2006, East Village was just beginning its Robert Downey, Jr. level of reinvention. Petco Park was a mere two years old, the now-ubiquitous luxury apartment...
View ArticleSan Diego’s Best Restaurants of 2024
Put that salad on layaway. Get an APR on some fries. This was the year the cost of dining out landed on Mars. Around the time the phrase “supply chain issues” took a hint and deleted our number,...
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A New Iteration of Katsuya Coming to Westfield UTC
Westfield UTC boasts some really great restaurants that are anything but your typical mall fare. But their Asian-inspired offerings keep stacking up—Din Tai Fung came in 2018, followed by Qin West...
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Subway Hates Us
Call me a size queen but as San Diego Magazine‘s official pretzel correspondent I was drooling when I saw Subway advertising foot-long Auntie Anne’s soft pretzels as part of a new campaign of...
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