Happy Hour at Cucina Sorella

My last Friday of winter break was spent meeting friends..

in this case, I met up with Mr. TJ...

Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers

Sometime back in May, I was in the area...

remembering Mary's post about this place (linked at the end), I knew I wanted to stop by Freddy's...

SFSU + the now defunct Takuya Hot Dog Bowl, Inner Sunset

We did make to the university on time...

ahead of time in fact, making sure we parked in the structure closest to the meeting place...

Nick's Cafe

On the edge of LA's Chinatown is an eatery we'd seen during prior road trips...

I remembered the super old signage and the pig in the front...

The Spot + Carpinteria State Beach

From Camarillo to Carpinteria...

to a place I had bookmarked but hadn't planned on going to until later in our trip.  We meant to go to the beach but balked when we found out the beach parking fee was $10. The nice lady at the booth told us we could exit the lot and park along Linden Street for free...

Return to Twist Sandwiches & North Park Nursery

Still in North Park but veering towards the boundary of Hillcrest...

is Twist Sandwiches, located between a liquor store and mariscos place...

Farmer's Bottega

It's been awhile since we had a "date" afternoon...

TC was hanging out with friends so we took advantage to try out the relatively new (seven months new) Farmer's Bottega over in Mission Hills...

My god friend KD recently ate her and liked it so we wanted to give it a try...

Cape Town

Last Friday TC and went to check out a fairly new restaurant up in Mira Mesa. It's in this strip mall east of the Pyramid on Miramar Road.

Just look for the flags and remember that's it's across from a golf course. It's a bit of a random place to put a South African restaurant...

but of course we were willing to drive up to give this place a shot..

FILAMEDA Fundraiser at Halphen Red Burgers

It's been awhile since we went here...

even though it's very close to home, we haven't found another reason to revisit until tonight...

Fred's

[Update - Closed as of Summer 2015]

On the northeast corner of Palomar and Third is this old fashioned looking burger joint...

We see it all the time whenever we're at Gunco Ramen across the street and have always wondered about it...

In 'n Out, Charley's & Fuddruckers

Health food this ain't!!!

A burger that Bert and I shared a few weeks ago...

Abe Froman's, I mean Salt & Cleaver + Chocolat Cremerie

A few days ago, I was able to try a fairly new restaurant in the heart of Hillcrest with Kirbie...

The restaurant was actually supposed to be called Abe Froman's, but they changed it, obviously. I read somewhere that they changed their mind on the name because they didn't think people would get the reference...

MJ's 3x

Sometime last week I had lunch with a few friends at a local fusion place...

It was their first time there. For me, my third but I'd been wanting to go back...

Birthday Dinner Part 1 - Soda & Swine

Last weekend was my birthday dinner outing with the Educator GF's (TORC, D, and KD)...

We were going to try something  different since we've normally gone out mainly for lunch. This time it would be an early early dinner...

La Belle Province

As soon as we opened the doors, we were greeted with a blast of oppressive heat...

After close to three hours of driving, it was finally time to take a break and have some lunch at a place that C insisted we try...

MJ's Yogurt Time & Deli

This past weekend, we decided to try a new food joint in our area...

Despite the title, they sell more than just yogurt here...

Hodad's

Last Friday Bert took the day off so we could all enjoy the last day of Fall Break together.

On our way up on the 5, we noticed that the scaffolding was gone on the new downtown library dome.

Turns out they were having some sort of ceremony there that same day about that...

Can't wait to see what it looks like inside AND out when if finally opens.

Today we were going to OB to finally try out a "beloved" burger spot...

Return to Legoland

It had been about five years since we last went here...

Thanks to comped passes from Darlene, we were able to go during the Fall Break with TC and KDD...

House Burger

[House Burger is now closed as of 2014]

As you can see, this coupon was about to fall apart...

I've had it for the past couple of months and figured we should finally use it...

Foster Burger

Heyyy now..."Striparaoke" and "Firestrippers"?

Even though Bert was "curious" about this place, the Devils Point Strip Club was NOT our destination...

No, this lovely establishment happened to be right next to a burger joint highly recommended by KDB...