San Diego

Single Serving: Coast Toast at Brockton Villa in La Jolla, San Diego

by Zach Mann February 1, 2012

I’ve known a few people who have attended the University of California at San Diego, a large public university condemned to the city of La Jolla, and each of these friends has harbored certain resentment toward this fate. La Jolla is a beautiful city, the [...]

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Single Serving: La Salsa Chilena at Select Stores, San Diego and L.A.

by Zach Mann October 3, 2011

Somewhere in the world is a person microwaving Kraft singles on a Mission tortilla and covering it with Pace salsa. There’s nothing wrong with that. I’ve done it. It’s delicious, even if it is a high-density, high-sodium brick of cheese flour covered in a sauce [...]

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Single Serving: Lomo Torta at Senor Mango’s in University Heights, San Diego

by Zach Mann August 10, 2011

Fact: Delis and butchers serve good cold cut sandwiches. Fact: Produce markets serve good vegetarian sandwiches. Probably. They should. Fact: Smoothie shops that are next door to produce markets serve good sandwiches. Confirmed. Senor Mango’s may not look like much, but success in the smoothie [...]

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Links at the Brink of Drink

by Zach Mann March 4, 2011

Live Wire was a two dollar price-cut away from being the perfect bar. There was plenty of room on the most crowded of evenings, a good pool table, sports on TV and a jukebox full of punk and soul. Puppies hopped excitedly from customer to [...]

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Bars For Bars’ Steak

by Zach Mann June 11, 2010

There’s a basic stupidity to restaurants and bars, places that glorify the consumerism of everyday skills that even I, to a certain extent, can reproduce at home for a fraction of the cost. Unless your time is literally money, it is economically worth spending in [...]

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Vaya Con Diego

by Zach Mann May 20, 2010

This is the finale of a series on Mexican food in San Diego. Zach will complete his correspondence from S.D. on his regular, biweekly schedule before leaving for San Francisco, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. The very idea [...]

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El Largo Adiós

by Zach Mann May 13, 2010

This story is thirteenth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. Oh [...]

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El Viejo y el Marlin

by Zach Mann May 6, 2010

This story is twelfth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. Bar [...]

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Tacos El Mejor

by Zach Mann April 29, 2010

This story is eleventh in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. You’d [...]

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