Namaste Plaza Indian Supermarket

Located in the same strip mall as Pho Cow Cali is the relatively new Namaste Plaza Indian Supermarket.

They opened not too long ago along with a new Indian restaurant, 8Elements, located a few stores down. Namaste Plaza is an Indian supermarket chain with locations throughout the Bay Area/Silicon Valley area (Fremont, Milpitas, San Jose and Sunnyvale). This is the first one in San Diego

Alerted to this by the ever knowledgeable Cathy of mmm-Yoso fame, I thought this would be a good opportunity to check it out...

Pho Cow Cali Express

Earlier today we were in the Manila Mira Mesa area and changed our lunch plans...

Being such a hot day, we thought we'd go with Vietnamese food instead of Indian. Both cuisines are handily represented in this particular area of San Diego, but today, Vietnamese won out.

I noticed that the clock still wasn't working. It had been awhile since we'd eaten here, although we've been to the adjacent yogurt shop next door for their snow ice...

Chaca Chaca, chamoy and mango = the perfect combination

Man, it hit close to 100F today! In Chula Vista of all places! I had a coupon burning a hole in my pocket and wanted to use it. Like NOW.

So off we went down south, off the 805 and Palm Ave exit in Otay Mesa...

Cooling off at PHGC

With all the hot weather lately, we've been craving bun...

Something about cold noodles on a hot day is so refreshing...

We also wanted to try something new instead of the same old same old...

Tom's Farms Old Fashioned Hamburgers

I had a blast just looking at all of the food and wondering why I never even heard of this place.

I guess we just don't travel up to these here parts, eh.

Tom's Farms - The Stores

After waiting nearly an hour for Triple A to come by and open Cathy's locked car door in the Vroman's Bookstore parking lot, we began to head back to good ole San Diego. We had such a fab day so far, going to so many different bakeries culminating in "The Adobo Road" booksigning at Vroman's.

Here is one last look at the lovely San Gabriel mountains as we left Pasadena...

juliette & chocolat

We were still on the same street and noticed this arresting red sign...

The word "chocolat" caught our attention,  so of course we had to stop in...

Au Pain Dore

After our awesome lunch at Schwartz's Deli, we ventured out into the blazing heat...

while enjoying the many street murals scattered throughout the boulevard...

Stray lunches, random pix and more

It's another one of those "random" pix posts...

This is the view of the 805 from the H Street Bridge. The freeway median is being converted to HOV lanes...

and will supposedly be finished by 2014. Hmmm, we'll see about that. I really hate how the lanes are super narrow now because of this.

It's been a super hot and humid week too....

Tokyo Grill & In 'n Out Burger

The other night we hosted TC's very first sleepover and SURVIVED. Six teen/tween girls.

The girls were out before noon. Later that evening, we took TC and two other friends (one classmate and KDD) to see this manufactured boyband propaganda movie directed by, of all people, Morgan "Supersize Me" Spurlock:

Well, I just bought the tickets but we did not watch it ourselves...

I still cringe from having to watch that Justin Bieber flick a few years ago...

To kill time Bert and I resorted to window shopping, browsing, and enjoyed a snack before taking the girls to a late dinner after the movie...

Schwartz's Deli - Charcuterie Hebraique de Montreal Inc.

My Canada posts have been drawn out longer than the entrails of a medieval torture victim. After more than a year since our summer visit, I've finally reached the Schwartz's Deli post.

This was THE place that we just had to go. Even C and her husband FJ (seen here carrying LO on his back) agreed. We could not miss going to Schwartz's...

We had our first smoked meat sandwich a few days earlier at Canadian chain La Belle Province, but Schwartz's is considered the most famous purveyor of Montreal style smoked meat...