Day after highlights...

Here are some highlights from the Day After My Birthday...

at a coffee stop in Eagle Rock...

Gravity Heights, Sorrento Mesa

The date that I am looking at this ancient post is June 16, 2022.   Long story but hiatus due to many things and lack of motivation. 

Since this post has photos, I may just do a quick one.

Went here with Kirbie...

Frost Me Cafe & Bakery with Kirbie

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting up with my friend Kirbie...

who selected today's destination...

Birthday crawl with MFH : Cafe 21 on Adams + Holy Matcha

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting up with my dear friend MFH...

I hadn't seen her since her birthday last fall and now that it was spring...

Royale visits with Kirbie, Stop 2 with the Educator GF's for KD's Bday Crawl + Bert & TC

A few weeks ago...

I met up with my good friend Kirbie for brunch...

Little Lion with Bert and TC

It was nice to have Friday off...

and spend it with Bert and TC...

Now we could all go together to my new favorite breakfast place in OB...

Little Lion revisit with Astroboi

A mere one week later...

I was back in OB, but this time...

with Astroboi (the best driver of surface streets EVER besides Cathy of mmm-yoso)...

TORC's Birthday Crawl - First Stop: Little Lion, OB

The latest birthday crawl was this  past weekend...

where we, the Educator GF's took out TORC for her belated birthday...

Kindred

This is a post I've been sitting on for a while.

We went to Kindred back in December 2016...

Cafe 21 with Astroboi + Hawthorn Coffee, Mission Thrift Store and the Incredible Cheesecake Company

Fall break is for meeting up with friends...

in this case, Astroboi and with his choice of breakfast venue...

Dunedin

My good friend MFH celebrated her birthday earlier this month...

Due to our schedules, we weren't able to meet up until recently...

when I took her to the year old Dunedin, a New Zealand themed eatery in North Park...

Birthday Brunch with MFH @ Cafe 21 on Adams + return to Kouch Lounge

The last Sunday of my birthday month was spent in the company of one of my dearest friends, MFH...

We got to Cafe 21 on Adams Ave bright and early.

I wasn't sure how busy it would be for Sunday Brunch so our plans were to go uber early since they don't take reservations...

Stops #2, 3, & 4 - Brunch @ Et Voila French Bistro, Coffee @ Hawthorn and dessert @ Black Market Bakery

Another downpour occurred while en route to Normal Heights. We made it safely, thanks to TORC's calm driving skills.

I got splashed while taking this full on shot of the Jimi Hendrix mural, near the corner of 30th and Ohio Street...

Royal Stone

Bert and I were off on our own during a weekend last month...

TC had a youth group event so it was off for brunch for us over in Mission Hills...

Pre-Birthday Food Crawl - Stop 3: Brunch @ The Rose + cute shops (Gold Leaf & West Grove Collective)

Located diagonally across from the Shepard Fairey monk mural was our brunch spot...

in this older building with handpainted signage...

There is a gold rose on their door...

Brunch @ The Cork & Craft

Brunch this morning would be waaaaay the hell out here...

in this business park in Ranch Bernardo,

at a place that I'd been wanting to try for a while...

Bert's belated birthday brunch @ Center Cut Steakhouse

Since Bert's birthday was on a weekday, we didn't go out for dinner. Instead, we waited until this weekend so I could treat him to breakfast brunch here...


Those that remember Coop's West Texas BBQ's 2nd (and now closed) Chula Vista location will find this building familiar...

Bay Park Fish Company + dessert at 85C

Yesterday we treated Bert to an early Father's Day lunch...

Today we had lunch at my parents so we moved  Bert's lunch up by one day which was fine by him. Seafood he wanted and seafood he got...

Here at Bay Park Fish Company which is right next to Siesel's Old Fashioned Meats.

Belated Birthday Brunch with the Educator GF's @ The Patio on Goldfinch

The second birthday of our little group (the Educator GF's) is always mine...

The first is KD's, the third, D and the fourth is KD's. Ever the good friends that they are, they let me select the destinations today...

The original plan was to do a Trolley Food Crawl but that was thrown out the window...

Pigs need love too? Brunch at Gelato Vero with Bert

See this cute thing?

Babe/Wilbur isn't served here...

and despite me having gone there twice before for brunch...

for some reason, my brain blanked out on their lack of meat in their  menu...