Eating and buying food around San Diego
After reading about a new Latino supermarket that recently opened in San Diego, I went looking to see what other kinds of large markets San Diego has. The “places” section of my own Jerry’s Diner Revue hasn’t had a new entry in quite a while. While I’ve moved some of the cookbooks over here to Mimsy, I haven’t moved any of the restaurants over. The only section that I continue to update is the Dining After Midnight section listing restaurants that stay open past midnight in the San Diego region.
I never did start that list of interesting markets I wanted to add to the revue. Fortunately, someone else has a much better San Diego market/restaurant/food blog than I could ever imagine creating. The blogger at mmm-yoso!!! “explores food” in San Diego and wherever else they travel.
The most interesting section for me is the Markets & Grocers section. Among the markets they review are some of my favorites
And of course there are many I’ve never heard of and will have to visit!
There are also a lot of good reviews of restaurants and other places to get food. If I’d been paying attention to this blog I wouldn’t have missed St. Spyridon’s Greek Festival this year. They’re definitely on my RSS list now.
- mmm-yoso!!!: Kirk K.
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“As in, yoso-silly, yoso-hungry, yoso-full, or best of all; mmm-delici-yoso!!!!! An Ex-Pat Kama’aina and Friends explore food in San Diego and points beyond.” Kirk and friends include a lot of fine photos to visually tantalize.
- San Diego Markets and Grocers
- Lots of great pictures and commentary on good markets around the San Diego region.
- Family-owned supermarket that caters to Latinos opens in S.D.
- “The 60,000-square-foot market has a bustling tortillería that fills the air with the smell of warm tortillas. On the other side of the store, there is a panadería baking fresh bread. There is also a frutería and a taquería, or taco shop.”
- Jerry’s Diner Revue
- These reviews of cookbooks and a few restaurants are slowly moving to the Jerry’s Diner section of Mimsy Were the Borogoves.
- Dining After Midnight
- There is nothing quite like the hunger you get at three in the morning when everyone else has gone to sleep. If you’re hanging with the late crowd in San Diego, come and see where you can time out for a bite after midnight!
- Relaxing at Ranch 99, or This Little Piggy Went to Market
- “I know what you're thinking. How can a trip to Ranch 99 Market, that crazy, hectic, center for all things Chinese, supermarket, be relaxing?”
- Mitsuwa Marketplace
- “Mitsuwa the Japanese Mega Market chains’ San Diego branch resides on the busy corner of a strip mall located on Kearny Mesa Road.”
- Vien Dong III Supermarket—Another Morning, Another Market
- “I’m sure most regular Visitors already know that we really don’t care much for crowds. And that I find shopping at an unhurried pace rather relaxing. So I usually will do my shopping at the local Asian Supermarkets in the morning; and Vien Dong is no exception.”
- Siesel’s Meat and Bay Park Fish Company—Surf next to Turf
- “On a whim I decided to grab a steak from Siesel’s Meat off of Morena Blvd. I’d usually drive all the way to Iowa Meat Farms, but decided to stop by Siesel’s. Over the past 6 months I’ve noticed alot of improvement in both the quality and variety of Siesels’s offerings since the Cohn Group (who also run Iowa Meat) took over.”
- St. Spyridon’s Greek Festival 2006
- “Since we moved to San Diego in 2001, we’ve been to the Greek Festival at St. Spyridon’s Greek Orthodox Church every year except one. Though we had a pretty full schedule this year, we wanted to make sure to drop by, and get a few of our “favorites.”
More San Diego
- Dark Thursday’s iPad goes far
- Give them this: when everybody else’s cell phones were dying, my iPad and Verizon allowed me to make fun of SDG&E’s twitter feed throughout the night.
- San Diego’s proposition D: tax first, reform afterward
- San Diego’s proposition D is an attempt to raise taxes and then reform—which is, of course, an attempt to raise taxes and not reform anything at all.
- The Invisible Commuter
- It sometimes seems as if pedestrians don’t figure at all into city planning—not even as an afterthought.
- Put safety first: end prohibition
- Prohibition increases crime and it reduces the ability of law enforcement to fight those crimes.
- The Snowball effect
- What is it with our political leaders that, if we no longer like them, they can’t have been military heroes?
- Four more pages with the topic San Diego, and other related pages