Usually, when I walk into a restaurant and I detect a faint moldy smell that’s about the time when I head for the door.  But Hunter’s Steakhouse is a historic landmark here in San Diego and how could I resist a place voted best prime rib in town by Earl, their manager.  That’s the mildew smell of our ancestors, likely the ones buried in the back yard.. and it reminds you of a time in our rich American history when if the help got frisky with the landsman’s daughter he’d be hacked to bits and bricked up in the walls. Read more »

You know, any day when you have to ask “Do I have lobster stuck in my teeth?” is a good day.  For me, that day was when I ate at Bite of Boston in beautiful La Jolla in San Diego.  They have locations in Boston, as you might assume, but they’re also open in 3 locations here.  I’d never eaten there before but one day shopping I found myself standing in front of a poster with a large photo of a lobster sandwich and after that I got a bit blurry. Read more »

If you are like me, you really look forward to breakfast foods. One of my favorite foods of all time is omelets. I fell in love with them when I had to cook them perfectly. You do not know eggs until they are done right. So when I took my daughter to The Broken Yolk Cafe in Mission Valley for her birthday, I was planning on letting her eat eggs and cheese (her two favorite foods of all time). Read more »

So away in a tiny hamlet in beautiful Rancho Bernardo in our gorgeous hometown of San Diego where the weather is always great and everyone else in every other city wishes they were here — meaning we’re always inundated with tourists, taking our parking spaces and cloggin up our freeways — is an itty bitty tucked away place: The Urge Gastropub. A look into the word gastropub here- we all know what a pub is, but by adding the very unappetizing and even embarrassing word ‘gastro’, we introduce a whole new way for food people to make themselves seem better than they are… it’s a pub… that also has some food. Read more »

So, I’m sure every one of us has eaten at a really expensive super fancy steak restaurant, where the steak comes as a seared hunk all by itself on a super hot plate and if you want a vegetable you have to pay for it separately as a side dish? Yeah, I love those places! In fact, I live for those places. Sometimes I dream about those places!  Mmm a la carte meat..

This time, the mechanism for our meat madness was the Glorious Gallaghers New York!!! … The small one in Las Vegas. Read more »