Cuppa Cuppa Drive-Thru Espresso Bar & Return to Donut Panic

Before meeting up at Donut Panic with the ever so flexible Cathy, I stopped by a nearby coffee drive-thru...

It's in the same strip mall as Chamorro Grill and Mr. Chick....

This would be my second time doing a coffee drive thru...

Romesco's - the Reboot

Yesterday, my friends and I were wanting to try something different for lunch...

One of them suggested Romesco's, a place I hadn't been to in at least five years...

and definitely before everyone started salivating about "Baja Med" and "Mex Fusion" and all those buzz words that so-called "foodies" get wet about...

Max Cup

[Update - This place is now CLOSED as of June 2015 and replaced with Otay Lake Pho]

To make the Eastlake "trifecta" complete, having been to the two newest additions to the strip mall...

TC and I went to check out the new boba place...

Which Wich, Eastlake

Located at this strip mall anchored by Vons...

is yet another new restaurantfast casual eatery in the Eastlake area, Which Wich. I've already posted on the newest Project Pie next door...

Both of these restaurants took over the former space for D'lish (which used to be a bbq joint, and before that, a previous incarnation of D'lish).

The first time we visited was during the height of the lunch hour...

Project Pie, Eastlake

About a month ago, the second Project Pie opened in Chula Vista...

East Chula Vista that is...

I was here recently with a few friends with a coupon burning a hole in my pocket...

House of 9 Dragons

[Update - Closed as of Summer 2015 - It is now a wings place]

One of our friends wanted to have lunch at this Bonita mainstay, House of 9 Dragons.

I hadn't been here in a long long time, like pre-blogging days, which makes is pre-2006. I think it has been more than a decade come to think of it...

Golden House Chinese Restaurant

The second half of Mother's Day was spent down south. First we visited my parents and then we took out Bert's mom to a local Chinese restaurant...

With us was Bert's older bro. Everyone with the exception of myself had been to this place before...

Zooies Cookies

It turns out that the picnic potluck had some good stuff after all!  In addition to hamburgers, homemade chapchae, salt and pepper wings, and pork menudo, someone brought these...

The younger kids were all abuzz with the arrival of these boxes...

Vintage Religion + Tomboctou return

[Update - Vintage Religion is now closed as of Summer 2014; they still have an online shop]

Before heading home, I asked Bert if we could check out this store off of University Ave and 32nd...

I see it all the time right before I head south on the freeway so it was about time to finally check it out...

Return to Coffee Tea & Collective

With a bonafide coffee drinker with me, on we went to the "&" hipster coffee joint...

located just around the corner from the Belching Beaver Tasting Room...

Pizza + the Belching Beaver Tasting Room

Near the corner of Grim and University....

is Fatboy Corner Store & Deli, which carries a big selection of fancy sodas. I just now noticed the new vertical deer painting.

Looks like they covered the old "Beer & Cocktails" sign...

(photo from my Around North Park...", December 2013 post)

Bert and I were planning to meet up with the Horns...