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With the hopes of creating a cohesive identity, the restaurants on the North end of India Street in Mission Hills have begun branding themselves as International Restaurant Row (IRR). Banners and signage are coming soon for the newly minted restaurant district.
Vegan restaurant and cooking school Casa de Luz has recently taken root in North Park, and hosts their grand opening on Thursday, May 17. The restaurant is the brainchild of Eduardo Longoria and his father, who opened the original Casa de Luz in Austin, Texas. The decision to open the North Park location came after Longoria’s exploration of using food as medicine
D’O Thai Cottage is the first and only spot for Thai cuisine in Old Town. Located alongside the historic El Campo Santo Cemetery, the white stucco structure formerly housed Café Pacifica, and more recently, an Italian restaurant. Two tiers allow for ample seating beneath an angled wood ceiling strung with white lights, signaling the same cozy ambiance I remember from Café Pacifica’s days
Before having kids, my wife and I loved trying new restaurants in the area when they opened, and frequenting our handful of go-to eateries. When our twin girls were born in 2009, it became a little tough to stay abreast of the food scene. We were limited to places that had sufficient floor space for car seats or strollers, and were noisy enough that a screaming infant wouldn’t attract much attention. I wasn’t sure if we would be able to enjoy eating out again before the kids were in high school
Frank Sabatini Jr. Restaurant Review Martinis Above Fourth fills a rare niche in that it’s one of the few restaurant-bars in Uptown that looks down to a street. Not exactly a towering rooftop like Bertrand at Mr. A’s or Top of the Park, but its second-floor perch in central Hillcrest
By Frank Sabatini, Jr. | Restaurant review Call it the most spontaneously run kitchen in San Diego. In less than 30 minutes, chefs at the new Casa de Luz unleash their culinary prowess on varying stockpiles of fresh organics for creating vegan meals tailored separately to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Margie M. Palmer | SDUN Reporter The North Park business district has a new neighbor. It is not a new storefront, nor is it a new resident. Painted alongside the west-facing wall of Wang’s North Park restaurant is a 50-foot cartoon dinosaur. Wang’s North Park co-owner Tom Eads said he
By Frank Sabatini Jr. | Restaurant Review How do you convert 15,000 square feet of dead space that formerly housed various department stores into a warm and alluring neighborhood restaurant? Easy. Gather up some adventurous investors; weather through the road bumps involved for securing permits and building codes; decorate tastefully,
One of my benchmarks for determining if I’ll return to a restaurant is when I originally dine there not-so-hungry and end up eating everything on the table. Such was the case at Davanti Enoteca, where starting with the first couple of courses, the meal I shared with a friend smacked of novelty and kept getting better
The Planned Development Permit to rebuild the Jack in the Box located at 2959 Upas St. remains under review by the City’s Developmental Services Department (DSD). For over one year, residents living near the restaurant, along with the North Park Planning Committee (NPPC), debated the merits of the Permit with the fast-food chain based on the proposed deviations to the zone’s current development regulations.