Take out + alcohol consumption during the time of Covid-19, March - July 2020

Yes, another compilation post...

featuring take out food and snacks as well as alcomahol...

Guahan Grill, Imperial Beach

[Update - CLOSED as of 2020]

Yesterday we finally checked out the newest location of Guahan Grill in the new'ish Breakwater Town Center in IB...

We'd only been to the one in Oceanside years ago...

Foodcrawl with Cathy - Stops 5, 6, 7 & 8 - Star Dust Donuts, DK-Che, Gloria's Bakery & Gonzalez Panaderia

Continuing the food crawl with Cathy...

we hit the jackpot when we saw Star Dust open!

"Those We Keep" mural, Imperial Beach

Bert and I were out and about last weekend.

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

IB Thai

After checking out Cesar Solis Community Park...

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

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...

Dinner at Siam Imperial + Oasis (again)

The new school year started...

and I was glad that the first week was finished, hence, a Friday night out for us two...

TC has graduated and is college bound!

I still remember the day she was born...

fast forward to yesterday when TC graduated High School....

New donut flavor from Star Dust

This sign almost beats the old KD's Nuts sign...

Star Dust was open this fine Saturday morning...

Recent visits to Trident & Scrimshaw Coffee + the new Brigantine in IB

Trident has become one of my favorite places for cold brew...

I noticed the sign on this pole changed...

Siam Imperial revisits

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of having lunch at Siam Imperial...

for two separate occasions...

Trident Coffee revisits

The once blank wall that greeted IB or Coronado bound drivers heading west on Palm Ave...

was now emblazoned with a new mural...

Return to Siam Imperial + Oasis!

Last night's dinner was spent in IB...

to try, once more, Siam Imperial...

Bayshore Bikeway revisit 7 months later

The bike shop had just opened...

with neighbor Trident Coffee open a little more than a month earlier...

We thought we would pay Bikeway Village development a visit...

Trident Coffee

There's a new coffee place in IB...

It's about time too...

So we waited patiently at the light at Palm Ave and 13th...

The former K-Pasta is now the Little Red Cafe

[Update: Sadly, Little Red Cafe closed as of early October 2017]

A few months have passed since K-Pasta closed down...

However, the same owners have replaced it with a different concept, the Little Red Cafe...

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...

Siam Imperial + new paleta flavor from Oasis

It was finally a Friday and I wanted us to try a new place recommended by a co-worker...

Down near the end of Palm Avenue in IB, where you will see variously shaped red metal sculptures along the sidewalk. This, I just found out, was part of the Imperial Beach Outdoor Surfboard Museum. Every board has a plaque with the year, the shape  and size style, plus the shaper.

The newest Thai restaurant in IB opened three months ago...

which replaced a former bike shop...

Mural at Pizzeria Luigi's, Imperial Beach

Over Spring Break, I took out TC and one of her good friends...

They wanted to take photos at the nearby Tijuana Estuary (NOT in Tijuana, by the way), but first lunch...

F esh Nuts? The tampering of the Star Dust Donuts sign

That's not a typo...

That's what the remaining Star Dust Donuts sign looks like as of early March...