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restaurants: Herewith I release the Sun god into the ActiveRain community - 07/10/10 12:21 PM
On The Border had always been one of my favorite places to eat Mexican food and drink margaritas.
Until late last year.
That was when they discontinued their excellent raspberry margaritas. Their reason was that "no one ordered them." Hmmm. My marketing guru and I ordered four every Sunday at 7:00 p.m.
Since we knew where we ranked with On The Border, we've been visiting different Mexican restaurants throughout the area, and I'll be doing reviews of them in the future.
Today, however, I'll just leave you with this picture of the Sun god that I took at the restaurant we … (14 comments)

restaurants: Restaurant review: La Jolla Brew House - 05/09/09 09:03 PM
As some readers might remember, I wrote a restaurant review for the San Diego Reader back in March and won a $25 gift certificate to La Jolla Brew House for the best "user review."
Recently my marketing guru and I decided to go to La Jolla for a Saturday night out. Actually, I think it was the Saturday of the week when ActiveRain was taking points away from us for virtually everything we did -- comments, blog posts, editing old posts for typos, etc. We figured we would go drown our sorrow, also figuring that anyplace that included both "La Jolla" and … (4 comments)

restaurants: I'm a famous published author! - 03/07/09 03:10 AM
I'll freely admit that I like to eat out, and I feel real good about eating out now as just a small part of how I can contribute to stimulating the economy.
There's a restaurant here -- we'll call it Arrivederci, since that's its name -- where the food is excellent but the service always leaves a little to be desired. Consequently, I don't go to Arrivederci nearly as often as I might otherwise.
When the economy was good, I could kind of understand poor service because there were 50 other people standing in line waiting to get in. Don't like … (16 comments)

restaurants: Bud's Louisiana Cafe in Tierrasanta - 02/21/09 11:18 PM

My marketing guru and I are always looking for good restaurants to eat to do our part in stimulating the economy.
We both love Cajun food, but outside of New Orleans and Ybor City (Tampa), we've found the quality of the food everywhere else to be lacking. Until a couple of days ago.
The "Night and Day" section of the newspaper had a review of Bud's Louisiana Cafe. We discovered one of Bud's restaurants about 15 years ago, Bayou Bar & Grill, in downtown San Diego, but they literally disappeared one weekend with no notice about where they might have … (6 comments)

restaurants: My favorite sports bars in San Diego County - 12/27/08 05:40 PM
For San Diego County residents who like to watch their sports at the sports bars, here's some that I have visited or have heard good things about:
Chula Vista - La Bella Café & Games - 289 G Street, 619-426-8820 El Cajon - On The Border - 103 Fletcher Parkway, 619-441-0200 Encinitas - Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar - 294 North El Camino Real, 760-753-6300 Escondido - On The Border - 298 East Via Rancho Parkway,760-233-9777 La Mesa - Johnny B's - 8393 La Mesa Boulevard, 619-464-2465 La Mesa - Jolt'n Joe's Sports Grill - 8076 La Mesa Boulevard,619-466-2591 San Diego Banker's … (7 comments)