Hello friends. If you read this blog regularly, follow me on Twitter (@saysgranite) or are my friend on Facebook, you’ve probably read about the technological meltdown that has befallen my headquarters. While the issue isn’t fully resolved, my generous friend Kyle has offered to...

Above: On top of a $10 admission price/$20 for VIP, suckers like these paid full price for food items at yesterday’s San Diego Food Truck Festival. There was no entertainment or seating, and several complained about the lack of electric boxes. Worst of all? Only 17 of the promised...

On grand opening nite, I paid a visit to Knotty Barrel Gastropub on 9th and Market in the former abhorrent Wolfy’s Place. As a serious food writer, I’d never think about reviewing a place just hours after it opened to the public. As an evil war-starter out to document my search...

I’ve seen stranger things on Market Street in downtown, San Diego. Meet Petunia, the pink Pot Bellied Pig. She was both sweet and spunky. “How could you ever want to eat pork again?” My companion asked. I had to think about it for a second. I love pigs in all their cuteness,...

If the glistening Whiz, bite marks, and sheer layers of juicy, grilled beef in this naughty photo don’t get you going, call a doctor (preferably not a cardiologist). Of all the things to eat, nothing gets my juices flowing more than regional street food. Lucky for San Diego,...

Prior to the influx of young, hip residents, or the trendy Yoga studio with its strip mall facade, in 2001Caffé Calabria replaced an indoor swap-meet giving dilapidated North Park a beacon of hope that more good things were to come. Some consider the introduction of craft beer North Park and...

On April 7th 1933, beer sales became legal in the United States again after the 13-year dry spell known as Prohibition. If you’re raising a glass today, pour a little out for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the man who granted back America’s beer drinking rights by repealing the...

Do you like to eat, drink and make merry? I’ve got a few reasons why you should get off the couch and party like an animal this week in San Diego, and it starts in the East Village. Rooftop photo of the Padres home opener. Courtesy Melani Gordon. In case you’ve been living under a...

The 2nd annual East Village Block Party saw over 40,000 people pass through for the Padres home opener on Sunday. I have something to admit: I don’t like baseball. After some beers, hotdogs and socializing, I’m the one that slouches over in my seat, snores, and goes home with a...

This photo can only mean one thing: Hodad’s downtown location is finally open. Behold, the new pastrami burger. Owner of Hodad’s, Mike Hardin, doesn’t like white space. Over the weekend, the head-to-toe-tattooed dude invited the public to help decorate his second burger...