Before I travel to a place, there is a pre-departure processes I feel almost obligated to carry out: watch the Bourdain episode, browse through the city’s Eater Top Stories, do a quick search on Thrillist and SeriousEats (if in the U.S.), and consult with anyone I might know from there. In the case of San…

Another cool spot I visited in San Diego was Prep Kitchen. The restaurant has three locations, of which I went to India Street in Little Italy, only a few blocks from my office. Apparently my colleagues frequent the place for their Happy Hour special, which allows customers to try some of their signature tapas ($5 a…

On my last day in San Diego my boss took me out for a leisurely, long lunch at one of San Diego’s monumental seafood-with-a-view restaurants, The Fish Market Seafood Market and Restaurant’s Top of the Market, overlooking the San Diego Bay. The market is basically divided into a ground-level counter, where passers-by can pick up…

I have to admit, I wasn’t too thrilled to go here when my local dinner companion recommended it. It has a painfully tacky lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) running through it, complete with the masks, the fake gold trophies, signed photos of fighters and a hot pink wall, all of which reminded me of that horrible little movie…

One pretty gentrified (now) but super lively little neighborhood in San Diego is Little Italy, where I was staying during my trip out there. The place has been largely polished up and, with the exception of a few old timer nonno’s and nonna’s left over from the tuna-fishing days and the occasional grandchildren who are eager to…

I was feeling lazy and lonely one night in San Diego, so I decided to order a delivery from a place nearby to where I was staying. I had had a sufficient amount of tacos by this time, so I went for something new – a Mexican torta – which a friend had recommended I…

Desperate for warm rays of sunshine and the sound of crashing waves, my first day in San Diego found me walking around Ocean Beach, looking for a bite to eat. My guide and lunch companion had a few too many recommendations to choose from – some famous taco shacks, an over-hyped and Fieri-frequented burger joint,…

Compared to the trendy and scattered valet-chic dining culture of L.A. or the locavore, cage-free, organic, food-nerd scene of the Bay Area, San Diego is not really known to be one of the culinary capitals of the West Coast. From what I’ve gathered, it has some real Mexican taco and torta shacks, gourmet burgers, a…

Being an East Coast gal, I don’t know or claim to know too much about life on the Pacific Coast. I know they’re easy-going, I know they surf and smoke weed and I also know they generally care a lot (most, not all, of course…) about the quality of their food. Cliche it might be,…