Oliver Coffea, Hillcrest

On our way to the car...

my sis and I stopped by the coffee shop at the bottom of these towers...

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...

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...

South Bay Food Crawl 2018 - IB: Trident Coffee, Deb's Cookie Jar & Star Dust Donuts

Imperial Beach was our next stop...

Caffeine was in order here.  Cold brews to be specific...

The Good Seed Food Co.

This past Friday, I met up my friend Mary for lunch...

As per our previous lunches, she always has the honors of choosing a place...

The return of Mexico Lindo Bakery, renamed Sweet Bakery Mexico Lindo

While taking the surface streets back from National City...

I saw this yellow sign from afar...

Balboa Bakery + Olivier salad from the market next door

D wanted to pick up her favorite salad at Balboa International Market...

At the deli counter, we were told the salad would be ready in half an hour..

Star Dust, the new Breakwater Town Center, and Deb's Cookie Jar in Imperial Beach

The old rusted out Star Dust Donuts sign with missing letters was never replaced; the diagonal metal post once held it up...

This Labor Day weekend, I was out and about and thought I would give luck a try...

El Cilantro, Imperial Beach + revisit to Deb's Cookie Jar

One of our friends ("One") recommended El Cilantro to us...

It actually used to be located on Palm Avenue near the car wash...

Return to S3 Coffee Bar, Donut Panic, Olive Baking Co. & Charlie's Best Bread, Pavaraga (PB) & Duet Coffee

I'm too lazy to do separate posts, so this is a combo post to be more efficient, ha ha.

This particular stripmall is in Grantville...

destination of one of my favorite donut joints plus a nice and new coffee bar...

Lunch and snacks from the Cayucos Farmer's Market plus return to the Cayucos Candy Counter & the Brown Butter Cookie Company

We noticed this on our way in...

and definitely made a stop back before they closed for the day..

Deb's Cookie Jar

Last weekend, I asked Bert to drive by a new place in IB...

I made a mental note to come here later this week with TC...

The Milk Bar + coffee from Streetcar, 2nd dessert @ Mariposa & more...

During Spring break I took TC and  friend out to lunch and dessert. Lunch was pretty basic (sushi at Junz). TC had been wanting to go to this new place ever since reading "Ms. Darlene's" Zagat article about flavored milks.

Then when we saw photos from "Ms. Kirbie" and "Ms. Mary", we HAD to go...

Olive Baking Company

While in Mission Beach, why not see the beach, right?

We were taking a short stroll to get to the boardwalk when I saw this sign...

Kula Revolving Sushi Bar and return to Blush

During the Thanksgiving Break, I took TC and one of her school friends here...

Special request...

Pavaraga Espresso Bar

In the tiny Bonita Plaza, not  Plaza Bonita the mall, but the strip mall that is also home to the original location of TJ Oyster Bar is a new, as in opened two weeks ago new coffee shop...

Pavaraga hails from Hawaii and the Bonita location is their first on the  mainland...

We had to give it a looksee earlier this afternoon...

Embargo Grill + The Cravory

While it was cloudy and gloomy down in Chula Vista and in central San Diego, it was sunny and verging on almost warm in Point Loma...

Lunch and dessert with Kirbie was on the agenda and it would be killing two birds with one stone. If you look above, you will see both of our destinations that day.

Sucky noodles from Noodles + return to the Cravory, an almost coupon fail at Sunshine Smoothie & return to Boll Weevil

I think I'm done now with this place...

Noodles & Company. I totally made the same mistake twice...

New flavors, Girl Scout Cookies

When I got home from the gym earlier tonight, I was greeted with these...

I spied two new flavors as well...

The new Brown Butter Cookie Company

You can see how small this town is...

We never thought we would end up coming back here, but it seemed like the perfect summer getaway from San Diego. The summer crowds hadn't yet arrived so mid June was quite optimal. Last time we were here, we remembered this building. It wasn't the Brown Butter Cookie Company yet, since it was located at the northern end of Ocean Ave. The old building is now a private residence/rental.

The Brown Butter Cookie Company now has bigger digs and even more flavors than before...