With their first restaurant, TRUST in Hillcrest, owner Steve Schwob and chef Brad Wise created a special place that featured “dishes that are a cut above yet grounded, technical but unpretentious and both passionate and deeply satisfying,” as I wrote in 2016 when they first … [Read more...]
EATER SAN DIEGO YEAR END WRAP-UP, Part 8: Food Writers Sum Up the 2016 Restaurant World in One Word
In the last part, Part 8, of Eater San Diego’s year end restaurant wrap-up ask we were asked to sum up the 2016 San Diego restaurant scene in a single word: http://sandiego.eater.com/2016/12/30/14118282/local-food-writers-sum-up-the-2016-restaurant-world-in-one-word My … [Read more...]
THRILLIST: 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 neighborhoods, never was, and cannot be for many reasons: Southern California … [Read more...]
SAN DIEGO CITYBEAT FOOD ISSUE: The last meal of a political junkie
My parents always suspected it might come to this. It just didn't happen the way they thought. I mean, I've always had a bad track record with library books. And I've always been a political junkie. It's the intersection of those two that have brought me to this juncture: my … [Read more...]