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By David Nelson | SDUN Food Critic Christian Gomez reminds me a bit of the Tasmanian Devil from the old Chuck Jones Warner Brothers’ cartoons: He moves so fast that the eye struggles to keep him in focus. His business card lists him as “executive chef/proprietor” of Wet Stone Wine
“Part of the mayor’s response to the grand jury report—and this is for all parking districts, not just Uptown—is to see a reduction in the overhead. If that’s going to be a policy that’s going to have to be implemented in the not-too-distant future, it really behooves Uptown Partnership [to act] sooner than later.”
—Third District San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria
Chefs used to be anonymous beyond the confines of their small, steamy empires, which in Europe typically were located in the basement. The idea of a “celebrity chef” would have seemed strange, except in the rare cases of experts recruited to serve the most glittering courts, such as Antonin Careme, who fed the royal houses of England and Russia in the gilded early decades of the 1800s. At that time, wearing a crown was pretty nice work if you could get it, while Careme, “the chef of kings and king of chefs,” frankly complained that the endless hours he and his battalions of cooks spent in hot, airless palace kitchens amounted to slow death
By Dave Schwab SDUN Reporter On Aug. 11, public officials, historical preservationists and representatives of the Jewish community joined to salute improvements to an historical Park West landmark: The $4.2 million renovation of Ohr Shalom Synagogue at 2512 Third Ave., now in its final stages. Built between 1925 and 1926,
A North Park bungalow and a Park West condominium will be two of the five homes on the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers’ tour, July 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m
When Benjamin Nicholls was named executive director of the Hillcrest Business Improvement Association early last year, one of the first items on his agenda was a report on Hillcrest’s parking situation. In a memo to Uptown Partnership, he suggested how reserve funds should be spent and outlined several projects his members wanted the Partnership to prioritize, including a parking validation program
If the day’s end finds you in business threads with a Prada briefcase in tow, the chic front bar lounge at Avenue 5 is your home before heading home.