Manhattan of La Jolla Posted on March 10, 2017 Few San Diego restaurants are built to last. Today’s dining public can be a fickle lot. Current foodie culture dictates eateries from white-linen hotspots to coffee shop mainstays follow every fad that comes along and continually renovate simply to maintain a respectable level of patronage. This…
No Fish Tale A revised restaurant hooks La Jolla Editors’ Note: This location has been closed Posted on Jan. 1, 2017 Many restaurateurs have gone mining for gold along La Jolla’s Prospect Street. But like most of those original forty-niners, many expeditions have proven difficult, turning up little but pyrite and broken dreams. In its…
Get Happy Posted: Dec. 8, 2016 Southern California sandwich destination Mendocino Farms’ newest location is sprouting up this month in La Jolla. On a mission to help guests “Eat Happy,” the restaurant features a chef-driven menu that changes with the seasons. Devoted to partnering with local farms and food artisans to create inspired dishes, the…
Donovan’s La Jolla Should you receive a request to meet a friend after work for the epic happy hour at Donovan’s in La Jolla, be forewarned, going to the space in UTC that the vaunted steak and chop house occupied for countless years will leave you scratching your head and wondering where it had gone.…
Duke’s La Jolla Newly implanted in the two-story shell of Top of the Cove, Duke’s La Jolla is the latest in a family of oceanfront eateries tracing back to the Hawaiian Islands. Rather than provide a whopping appetizer-course’s worth of background, I’ll leave the origin story abbreviated, focusing on the present instead of the past.…