Cafe bleu - SD ... The last supper

Cafe bleu located on washington is a fantastic french inspired dining experience. Having been here before and reviewed several times, the warm interiors, bold reds, bright bleu lights and loungy comfortable chaises, booths and tables, you quickly submerge away from the busy washington st.

The last supper started off with a pop.


Always a great way to celebrate life. An amuse busch brought out a tasty cucumber with spaniah cheese, pickled meats and a tangy olive oil based topping started the session:


The appetizer of the day included kobe beef lollipops with gorganzola baked goodness, prosciutto wrapped asparagus and mini empanadas stuffed with seafood covered in a spicy chipotle like sauce. A devistion away from the french influence, it was definately delicious:



A zoom up of the kobe lolli's with gorganzola:


The seafood empanadas:


A roasted beet and goat cheese salad was drizzled with a reduced balsamic demi glaze and accompanied with candied pecans:


The main dish, a pesto encrusted yellowtail served with caper and tomatoe pasta shells was fantastic:


The hangar steak and crab claws next were also prepared well and tasty :


For desserts, a flourless chocolate with cooke cherries was devilishly good:


The banana bread pudding with pistachio ice cream provided a great combination:


The chilean cab went phenomenally well. Bold, robust and spice complemented all the flavors.


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Neighborhood - east village

A corner Spot in the east village area, Neigjborhood is your local hamburger and beer spot, set in an urban industrial space with exposed metal, lofty airy space an large window pains that swin out to the open air, as a local drinkong hole and quick bites, was looking forward to exploring.

Well dont come here for brunch or breakfast as they dont serve any. Literally only burgers, salads and beers. So change of plans and a cobb salad was ordered with grilled chicken


Fresh springs and grilled chicken were ok. The beet salad was prepared fresh, but your general assortment of canned beets were not hitting the spot:


But the surprising aspec of it was that a plate of grilled cheese sandwhich whizzed by, looking and smelling delicious, we nearly reached out and stopped the waitress to sample.



The grilled Cheese sandwhich was tasty, plain and simple, served with a cream based tomatoe soup, this was definately a treat.

Overall, the burgers looked fantastic, but the offerings were limited. A latte or an espresso wasnt available either. This truly is only a beer and burger joint, which would have been perfect at non morning hours.


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Chocolat SD

Desserts are a guilty pleasure of many. Sweet and tasty bites of calories that make you feel good is not a bad thing. Chocolat has a full serving of gelato and crepes to satisfythe sweeth tooth in All of us.

Past reviews describes the interior and food, now we're All about the gelato inspired martini's and crepes.

The lemon sorbet martini. Was refreshigly good:


Blended perfectly with the banana and chocolate crepe:


The chocolate souffle was a melted chocolate bomb explosion! Molten chocolate interior oozing from the middle of sweet chocolate bread drizzled With even more chocolate had the chocolate monster tamed.



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Saigon- Vietnamese Hillcrest SD

Saigon on fifth always has great and tasty offerings. A frequent visited place, with several reviews in the archives and With a back interior facing an inner courtyard, spring Rolls under the heat lamps can get toasty.

Spring rolls With shrimp and peanut sauce:



The lemon Steak salad came With shrimp this time, but had The lemony vinagrette dressing that was crispy With nut texture and light:



Thr loveboat sailed in with calamari, mussels and clams



THE 360 degree beef was delicious. Marinaded cube beef flavored and spiced to perfection




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Khyber pass- hillcrest

Afghan food has explosive flavors: potent chiles, succulent cherry Lamb, Shish kebab chicken and a variety of other sauces and flavors.

Sauce people, dish it up. Tangy sweet chipotle type, spicy cilantro and chile make for a dipping trio for garlic bread:


Garlic naan has all your friends loving you:


For starters, the borta appetizer was a baked eggplant babaganoish style dish served with paprika and pita:


The aushak: a cilantro filled dumpling topped with minced meat, yoghurt and chile sauce was savory:


The chicken Kebab was delicateable. Charbroiled chicken served with basmati rice, lentil cooked rice and broiled potatoes, complemented with our trio dipping sauce, was flavorful:


A side of spinach, cooked with garlic, lemon and spice brought out the popeye in all us:




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Baja betty's- hillcrest SD

Baja Betty's has 3 dollar margueritas, all you can eat and drink sunday brunches and a loud and lively crowd. ok a dramatically loud and lively crowd!

Welcome to the monkey madness:


The margueritas come frozen or straight up, for 3 bucks, hard to complain.

The apps aré your standard affaire of chips, quesadillas, flautas and ceviche. All good bites:



The mahi ceviche had plenty of tomatoes and few chunks of Fish and shrimp, but still tasty.

Sunday brunches tend to be a happy disaster. Nachos, emchilladas and huevos rancheros coming at you left and right. With bottomless sangria, some folks just never leave!
Good bargain bites At baja's

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Osetra. - gaslamp SD

Fresh fish and raw bars aré a local attraction at Osetra grill.

Heat lamped line outside seating, a seafood napolean was in order. Layered tartare, crabmeat and avocado With a slightly teriyaki Sauce went down well:


THE fire hibiscus and citrus martini was hot and spicy


THE halibut was prepared With pepper and citrus and sautteed veggies:





Osetra was pricey... Omg. Not sure we'll be back!

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Salisbury steak-- what are you?

A surprise appeared on my desk today, a salisbury steak wirh Green onions and peppers:


It came from the a Tango del rey spot, cooked for a foodie in the closet CB.

Looking at it, started wondering why its called a salisbury steak. Afterall, its minced meat with onions and mushrooms usually and a gravy type Sauce.

Foodipedia to the rescue, Dr. Salisbury in 1897 invented the steak. Since then, its been packaged into every kind of frozen package one can think of.

In the south, its called poor mans steak. Ground beef havens and salt phines Will like this dish.

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Anthology- little Italy SD

Anthology is a modern music venue that had sophisticated dinner experience, live music and 3 different levels of sitting, lounging and bar drinking.


Modern in decor, with medium size stage and great sounds, audio video and lights, from salsa to jazz to vocals and gospel, some good venues have been enjoyed here.

And for the most part the food has been pretty good, with the recession in full blown effort, some scaling back occured on this cinco de mayo.

The salsa band was liveley and shaking things up. Our starter of guacomole was disappointing. A heavy bowl With a spoon full of guac and more tortilla chips then the carb limit allowed for was not a way to start:



The dark interior wont make the pics show. The mahi ceviche was ordered which came out in a small bowl, ok but served With plantain chips (WTF?). This is where the salty crisp fríed tortillas would have complementes the citrusy tomatoe mahi!



The main corse, which was requested, was a red snapper Veracruz With citrus mango and pepper. Well, surprisingly in the First show, they ran out! Talk about Supply chain management gone wrong. So we had to settle for second best which was the chicken burrito.

It was ok, a little too mushy and Covered in your tomatoe based Sauce, not having a good time With it. Your chipotle burrito was probably half as much and twice as good.


I can't beleive that in a year's time the Quality of the food plummetted! It may have been the specials of today and yes the margueritas were helping but thumbs down on the food.

Great salsa music though, puerto rican blends, some cumbyas, merengue and salsa, but definately changed food atmosphere.


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Big Kahuna- SD

Cowabunga.. If you're in PB and looking for surf board action and burgers and pizza, big kahuna is the place for you.

Celebrating the growth of one of our colleagues, the cheese balls were dished out:



The melting cheese balls oozing with artery clogging cAlories come serve with a side of whole milk ranch. Dangerous little balls.

The hawaiin hot sauce was something I've never seen in Hawaii:


Nothing hot by any measure, but tangy sweet, made an interesting mustard blend for dipping fries.

The teriyaki chicken sandwhch was sweetened glazed and delicious. A bit too much enriched white bread but tasty meat:


Surfs up PB...

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Amarin Thai- hillcrest

Thais food. What's the best thai food to get in SD. Well that's a debate for another time. But a great spot is amarin.

Having sampled a numbe of items, this place has entered into the comfort Thai restuarants where you want to go back for the drunken noodles or chicken. Soup.




Papaya salad with shrimp, vingrette with fish sauce was crisp and good, best that you can get wth the local ingredients provided.

The tom yum soup with Chicken.. Spicy lemongrass, Straw hat mushrooms, Chile oil and chicken with Brown rice... Always good:



Eggplant amd chicken, nicely sautteed:



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Cucina Urbana- bankers hi

Move over Laurel, or what was the famed Laurel restuarant and welcome cucina Urbana. Having been here several times, love the use of space.

One big open space split into contiguous envrionments.. A hotel type bar, common dining room area, a living room rustic country Italian wine walled room, a pizza oven sit up bar and secluded tucked away glassed nooks... There is an environment for everyone.

Set in a modern rustic Italian food ambience, the olives are some of the best in the city. French green and black prune olives marinaded in garlic and vinagrette... Watch out friends, whole garlic cloves are just about to make us friendlier! Served with toasties and served in a jar dish on a cheese boars.. Yum:


The gorgonzola hummas spread on whole wheat was fabulous:


The roasted beet and grapefruit salad, fresh spinach leaves and beets did the body good:


The chicken djour: roasted chicken breast with extra crispy skin, spinach and mashed potatoes with a poahed egg was fantastic:


The pizza smelled amazing; thin cruted bread, fresh spring veggies and served with a side of oregano, sea salt an pepper flakes...


But the best of all was the desser pizza: a flatbread pizza covere with chocolate and raspberries sprinkled with chopped mint and dusted with sugar powder ... Omg that good:


Fantastic food, great entertaining ambience and service that puts a smile on your face, cucina is a great spot. Ask for Rebecca, a wonderful and entertaining individual....

Super tuscans and fragolino are definately appreciated!!

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Tower 23 PB

Tower 23 is a great beach side hotel and food spot. It's Miami inspired interior, outdoor terrace facing the beach with glass wind shields and heat lamps makes for a sunny afternoon brunch in the sun a great adventure.

Bloody mary's come with a charcuterie plate:


Crab cake benedicts with citrus hollaindase sauce on the side:


With the sun out and beaches primed with waves, a little food action by the beach should be the lunch norm.

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Bandar- persian food SD

Gaslamp District has a variety of food options. Bandar offers persian Cuisine in a modern sophisticated setting.

Pomegranite, pistacchio and saffron aré all powerful flavors. Lamb shanks, zatars and charbroiled meats aré also favorites.




Dark interiors wont allow for THE pics, but eggplant stew with lamb shank dripping tender meat was delicious.



Charbroiled chicken With spices.. Delic
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Taco craziness

Family events aré always fun to bring out the chismes, old memories and the occasional things you want to forget.

Tacos ala Poat were Special of today:


Crispy crunchy home cooked tacos always goes well With a chalula and a stella


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