New Year's Eve Breakfast with friends & Dinner at home

Fresh from hosting our holiday party last Friday,

We hosted one more event with friends...

Tip Top Meats with Tatonka & Superman

During our past holiday gathering,

I suggested meeting Superman for breakfast at Tip Top Meats along with Tatonka...

Christmas Party with Friends 2018

We recently hosted a party at our pad...

This is a piece I bought from Project Reo Collective's past Loteria art exhibit this past spring. It's called "Ang Estrelya", a Filipino take on the Mexican loteria card for "La Estrella" (the "star"; the artist is Nina Cristobal of Nina Cee Studio)...

Los Reyes, Golden Hill

We'd always see this spot whenever we were in Golden Hill

for Dark Horse Coffee...The photo above was taken October 2016...

Dark Horse on 25th + Lofty Coffee Cafe & Bakery, Little Italy revisits

On the day before Christmas...

Bert and I had our Saturday coffee date early, as usual...

Christmas Day Lunch 2018

Now for Pancit Bihon 2.0

This time for Christmas Day lunch at the male sibling's abode...

Christmas Eve Dinner 2018

First of all,  Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to those that celebrate!

This vacation was spent with great company and good homemade food...

Revisits - HOB Coffee & Mostra with D

D hadn't been to HOB or the new Mostra before so these were our next stops...

Sadly, the two drinks above sucked...

Modern Times Cafe revisits

Last month Bert and I were out and about...

and made a stop at Modern Times Cafe...

Boudin SF, Clairemont

In the same strip mall as 85C and Chicken Charlie's FryBQ is a place we visited recently.

That place is Boudin SF which has been long gone from UTC and most recently, the Fashion Valley mall...

The French Oven revisit

After lunch at Tambayan, D and I headed up north...

we would have coffee but first, the French Oven...

Tambayan Filipino BBQ and Grill

I was at a community function earlier today,

and had plans to go out with D, who picked me up from said function...

Paradise Hills Night Market 2018 recap

We were fortunate enough to park at a friend's driveway for the Paradise Hills Night Market this year...

This was our view walking down Keen St. to get to Dusk drive...

Anti-Black Friday & Small Business Saturday 2018

It was a beautiful morning in Golden Hill...

on the shopping day known as "Black Friday"...

Return to Golden Hill Cafe + Dark Horse Coffee & Por Vida

Trying to catch up on previous unposted posts folks.

I'm finally getting around to posting these pix from last year...

Paradise Hills Night Market 2017 recap

Talk about procrastination...

(not us, but some other folks we were following as we headed to Penn Athletic Field)
This is a post for last year's Paradise Hills Night Market...

which debuted last year and will be returning....

Anny's Fine Burgers, Kearny Mesa

It was Veteran's weekend and we were out and about.

We had just gone to a local comic book shop and thought we'd stop at this burger place for lunch...

Dinner & drinks @ Caffe Calabria

It was another Friday night...

TC was out with the boyfriend and Bert had a craving for pizza...

"Those We Keep" mural, Imperial Beach

Bert and I were out and about last weekend.

Before shopping for groceries, we made a stop here...

Bolsa revisit

A few weeks ago, I had a craving for banh hoi

This was one of the places recommended by Kirk (the other one was now defunct) and since we hadn't been here in awhile...

TORC's Birthday Crawl: Stops 5 & 6 - Pop Pie (revisit) + Stella Jean's Ice Cream

Our last two stops for TORC's bday crawl was here...

over in University Heights...

Mutual Friend Ice Cream

Earlier last month we visited a new ice cream place,

which is located right next to Dark Horse Coffee in Golden Hill...

Food crawl - Marleez Koffee, Nhu Y, Mi Quang Mien Trung

Last weekend was spent with Bert and some friends for a food crawl...

My friend had specifically requested one since it had been about three years since we last went out...

Glow mural in Manzanita Canyon & the Ocean Discovery Institute

We reparked the car so we could be closer to the pathway...

From up on the hill at the Manzanita Gathering Place, there was a steep walkway down...

Glow & Alex Banach art installation at Manzanita Gathering Place

After our visit to the new City Heights Coffee House...

I asked Bert if we could find a mural in a canyon...

City Heights Coffee House revisits

This past fall, Bert and I made a quick stop here...

but sadly, the shop was not yet open...

Fall/Specialty Drinks at Cafe Virtuoso, Moniker, Holsem & Black Stag

Fall is almost over with winter on the way,

with the new season are new drinks at some of the coffee joints that I frequent...

TORC's Birthday Crawl: Stop 3 - Return to Jaunt Coffee Roasters

I liked this place so much last time...

I came back but this time with the gal pals...

Return to Sarap Filipino Kitchen: Stop 2 of TORC's Birthday Crawl

Our second stop that morning was here...

at the new'ish Sarap over by the Pyramid on Miramar Road...

TORC's Birthday Crawl - Stop 1: Copa Vida, Sorrento Valley

A few weeks ago the Educator GF's and I were out on a belated birthday crawl,

this time to celebrate TORC...

Elijah's revisit + Scrimshaw

Bert and I had a free morning...

and I had a coupon in my wallet for this place...

The return of the carved Halloween Pumpkins

Bert and TC haven't carved Halloween Pumpkins in FOUR years!

It's been a good two or three years since I've worn my house robes...

The new Pho Hung Cali 2

After months of seeing the "Coming Soon" sign...

I had kind of forgotten about this place to be honest...

The elusive apple cider donuts from Trader Joe's

After one month of fruitless searching,

at four different Trader Joe's...

Lunches with La Ley : Supannee, Pho Convoy, + Pho Convoy revisit with Bert

Here are some recent lunches with my co-worker/friend La Ley...

She hadn't tried Supannee before and was willing to give it a shot...

Mural for SAY (Social Advocates for Youth), City Heights

During Fall Break we noticed something ne

This mural is located in an alley...

Brings Me Peace mural, City Heights

I was out and about one weekend and saw the multicolored hand...

I ended up making a U-turn somewhere....

Desserts round up - Eccentric International Chefs Bakery, Arely French Bakery, home bakers, Niederfrank's & Mexico Lindo Bakery

This post kind of languished since January 2018...

so her it is, a compilation of desserts posts...

Revamped murals in Glow's Art Alley

Sometime over the Fall Break, I did a revisit to an art alley...

which was in Azalea Park in City Heights...

Stella Jean's Ice Cream

Next door to Pop Pie was a new ice cream place,

which is also owned by same owners of Pop Pie...

Return to Pop Pie

Friday night...

and we were out and about...

Lucky's Golden Phenix

Yesterday Bert and I were out and about...

North Park is a'changin'...

Tumbleweed Coffee

A few weeks ago, I had the day off...

and while out doing errands, stopped at a relatively new coffee cart in City Heights...

Downtown Chula Vista Pub Crawl - Stops 4 & 5: 3 Punk Ales + Third Ave Alehouse

This was a place that Bert had visited recently...

and I was curious about 3 Punk Ales, one of the newer breweries here...

Downtown Chula Vista pub crawl - Stops 1, 2 & 3 Chula Vista Brewing Co, The Grindhouse & Groundswell Brewing Co

Yesterday Bert and I had the pleasure of hanging out with Thane...

he was in town for family business and leaving the next day...

IB Thai

After checking out Cesar Solis Community Park...

and taking photos of The Wing, a local landmark (post is forthcoming)....

Cesar Solis Community Park

I was out solo this particular morning.

A new park had opened up in the South Bay the previous week and I had to check it out...

Plan B - Lannboon Asia Cafe

Last week I was out and about...

and decided to see if this Lao food truck was open. It's on 30th Ave across the street from the old Nomad Donuts and Ono's...

Fig Tree Cafe, Liberty Station + Hawthorn Coffee with D

Yesterday, I hung out with D...

she had some time off from work so it was nice being able to spend it with her...