The new Mostra Coffee at 4S Ranch

A week or so ago, I went out for coffee with KD (one of the Educator GF's)...

Mostra had opened up a new location up north in 4S Ranch...

Coffee during our Central Coast Road Trip - Red Kettle Coffee House, Cayucos Coffee, Luna Coffee Bar, Scout Coffee & Lucky Llama

It's been about three weeks since our trip to the Central Coast...

we debated whether to do it or not, but wanderlust won out...

25th Anniversary dinner at Lunada Garden Bistro, Cayucos

I am going to jump around with my posts and the timeline a bit...why? Because I can dammit.

Bert and I celebrated our 25th Anniversary this year and took a family road trip to the Central Coast.

Instead of doing sad ass takeout and eating it in our room out of styrofoam containers...

Early 25th Wedding Anniversary Dinner at the Bali Hai

It feels so weird to be blogging again...

I didn't miss it too much but it's good to be back. Earlier this evening, Bert and I went out for an early dinner...

Our 24th Anniversary - Dinner at the Bali Hai (plan B)

[Retroactive post - Actually  written on 6/27/20]

It was our 24th Wedding Anniversary...

Our original plan was to have dinner at Supannee House of Thai near Shelter Island...

Tilt Coffee, DTLA

[FYI - This is a retroactive post...dated 4/14/19 but written and published on 6/26/20]

Due to Covid-19, this coffee bar is most likely operating quite differently than when I first visited in Spring 2019. Take heed.

After our quick snack at Sari Sari Store at the Grand Central Market...

we took a walk to find this "hidden" coffee bar...

Irenia Part 2 - The Food

As promised...

this post will feature the food we had for my pre-bday dinner at Irenia in Santa Ana...

Kopi Coffee House

[Retroactive post - written on 7/8/2020 but backdated to 3/14/19 - which is funny since our actual trip was Spring 2018]

Our next stop of the day after having had lunch at Nick's ...

was this coffee house specializing in coffee and drinks from Southeast Asia. It is also next to a popular brunch spot, The Screen Door (which was mocked in an older Portlandia episode)

Karangalan Scholarship Fundraiser dinner at Tidal (Spring 2017)

Although this is dated March 8, this was supposed to be posted back in Spring 2017.

Yes, more than 2 years ago.

I am going through my drafts and realized I never posted on this Filipino fusion dinner, so here goes.

The occasion was for a Filipino American scholarship fundraiser for my district...

The newly expanded Project Reo Collective

[Update as of 2020 - Sadly, PRC was a casualty of Covid and closed late May 2020] 

Bert and I have been enjoying our Saturday coffee dates...

It is usually coffee + urban art and lucky for us, PRC had both!

Return to the Portland Spring Break 2018 Posts - Day 5: Deadstock Coffee

Hey folks, it's the return of the Portland Spring Break posts. This was our vacation from last fkg year man.

It's my goal to finish it within less than one year since we went on vacation, ha ha. So, starting today, the return of these posts, featuring Day 5...

Red Hat Coffee, East Village

[Update  as of 10/19 , which was the last four lettered review; This place is now CLOSED]

Bert and I were up pretty early to head over here...
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the rapidly gentrifying East Village neighborhood in downtown San Diego...

North County Coffee Crawl Stop 4: Baba Coffee

Our last stop of the day was a few blocks from Sleeping Tiger.

In fact, we parked so far out, we passed this place by while on our way to Sleeping Tiger, ha ha...

North County Coffee Crawl Stop 3: Sleeping Tiger Coffees

We made the short drive down to Carlsbad for our third coffee stop. Around the corner from this colorful mural...

("Catnap" by Michael Summers, 2013) 

 was our next coffee stop which is housed in a winery of all places

North County Coffee Crawl Stop 2: Panels Coffee Bar and Comics (revisit)

It has been a while since we were last at Panels...

You can't beat the combination of coffee and comics...

North County Coffee Crawl - Stop 1: Steel Mill Coffee

During this holiday weekend, Bert and I made an improptu trip up north...

We were actually planning to go to Steel Mill tomorrow, but changed our minds...

Seven Seas Roasting Co., South Park

Yay, there's a new coffee shop in South Park,

which is a good thing. The other place that is there (Communal) is a bit too frou frou for me...

Bird Rock Coffee Roasters, Pacific Beach

The newest location of Bird Rock Coffee had opened not too long ago,

and we had a free Sunday morning....

The return of Suga Lips + farewell to Black Stag Cafe

Been doubling up on coffee places lately.

Our first stop was Scrimshaw...

S3, Rudfords & Embargo Grill revisits

Some of these pix are from a few months ago...

which got put on the back burner and are now just being churned out, heh heh...