New favorite dish at Asia Cafe + price hike in their menu

We escaped the parking hell in North Park and headed south to 47th and Market Street...

Yes, to one of our favorites....

Return to Nomad Donuts

Alright, I just had to come back and give this place another shot...

Darlene's Zagat report on Nomad came out on Wednesday and while this place wasn't quite one week old into their soft opening, there was already a line at 10 am this past Saturday morning (and 17 up from 9 reviews from Y***)...

I sure hoped they had some donuts left by the time we hit the counter...

The new Up2You Cafe.

During the recent South Bay food crawl, Jinxi mentioned that Up2You had a new location. Wut?  I totally missed this as they have been open since early summer.

It's right up the street from K Sandwiches and Sushi Diner, in the same strip mall that has Homestyle Hawaiian...

Sushi Diner

Around the corner from K Sandwiches is a duo of hole in the wall restaurants, sharing the same building, Mien Trung and Sushi Diner. This post is about Sushi Diner (not pictured below).

This is the parking lot behind Sushi Diner which is near a hidden beauty shop. There are only a few parking spaces in the back and we got lucky snagging one that afternoon, dagnabbit.

I'd never paid attention to the sushi place next door to Mien Trung until recently...

Nomad Donuts

As San Diegans experienced this Wednesday, it was wet and miserable from the storm and if you had to take the freeways, it totally sucked.  This coming from me, the person with the five minute commute. I know, wah wah wah, right. But man, it was a white knuckle drive for me until I got to surface streets.

(the random store on the corner of 30th and University is going out of business!)

I had the day off to attend several appointments and from the 805 all the way up the 94, it was a damn nightmare with traffic crawling along. Out of frustration, I got off on the 94 instead of going up to the El Cajon Blvd exit. I thought to take the "long way" up 30th to get where I wanted to go....

85C Bakery, San Diego

Last week during the break, I took TC along with me to do some errands. The first one was a trip to the Superior Court to talk to a clerk about me finishing my online traffic school class. Yes, we waited 40 minutes to have a less than one minute interaction with the clerk. It was quite fun indeed.  To sweeten the deal, I promised TC that we would stop by the newly opened 85C Bakery...

Here is a shot while at the red light...

Look for this sign....

Return to TJ Oyster Bar (3rd location)

During Black Friday weekend,  we had a craving for tacos and since Bert hadn't been here yet...

it was a good excuse for a revisit...

Bart, a sorpresa, more yarnbombs at BGCB, and baklava cake from Donut Panic

[Update - Broke Girls Coffee Bar closed May 2015 and is now Backyard Cafe]

From City Farmers Nursery, we drove up the hill and turned on Fairmont Ave...

before taking the "scenic" route through El Cajon Blvd. to get to Normal Heights to our favorite bookstore...

Sunflower Coffee Company

It was time for some cold drinks...

containing caffeine...Of course, diligent readers already know (or have a 50/50 chance of guessing) what I ordered because I'm predictable like that...

Bunny Kitty, Christmas display windows,yarn bombs, pastries at Rebecca's and Stop Target poster...

Originally we were going to take our Christmas photo near the Bunny Kitty mural in South Park....

It was a good thing we didn't since there was some sort of yard sale going on...

City Farmers Nursery

In early September,  the Educator GF's and I celebrated TORC and D's birthday at Nate's Garden Grill. We also took a peek at the adjacent City Farmers Nursery...

It was a pretty hot summer if you recall...