Bane Phonkeo's Food to Go

So far, today was a fun adventure despite the small bit of rain we ran into while driving. I'm liking Saturday mornings more and more since Bert and I have been  finding new places to go. Earlier, we enjoyed our breakfast at Nate's and our coffee from Bay Park. There was this small eatery I wanted to check out before picking up TC...

There is a gray building on the northwest west corner of 47th and Imperial, diagonally from Lincoln High School. It was time to finally check it out...

Bay Park Coffee

It was raining down south (TC told us later that it was coming down pretty hard) but we didn't experience any rain after leaving Nate's to head over to Bay Park, a neighborhood we've only driven by many times while on the 5, but never explored before until today...

We did run into some heavy showers while going through the S-curve on the 5, which tapered off and stopped completely once we moved past it...

The clouds were quite dramatic that day as we turned off the Tecolote Canyon/Sea World Drive exit to get to Morena Blvd...

Breakfast @ Nate's Garden Grill

Our morning date was "cloudy with a big chance of rain".

TC was doing her volunteer thing, rain or shine.

We thought we would revisit Nate's once again since we haven't had breakfast there before...

Seafood Friday #2 - Crisp Fish 'n Chips

TC told us about this new fish and chips shop that replaced the old taco shop on the corner of this strip mall at the corner of Saturn Blvd and Coronado Ave in Nestor (which is NOT Imperial Beach), which is part of an unincorporated part of San Diego (a sliver that shares the same 92154 zip code as Otay Mesa)...

According to yelp, this place opened "2 months ago" but when we spoke to the girl at the counter, she said they'd been open since October...

This photo was taken before we left. When we arrived earlier, there were a few families eating in and other individuals waiting for their orders to be filled...

Pre-dinner dinner @ K-Pasta

It was supposed to rain tonight and boy did these clouds look ominous...

as we drove from the 905 to the 5....

to have dinner at K-Pasta, one of our old faves which we hadn't revisited in a couple of years...

Hot Java coffee kiosk

Recently, I was down south at Kaiser for an appointment.

With some time to kill and the desire to have some coffee, I saw this small cofee kiosk near the Radiology department...

La Marque

After our filling breakfast with awesome views at Tobey's 19th Hole, we headed to the southern part of Hillcrest to a new coffee shop.

This being Hillcrest, we had to park off of a side street since parking pretty much sucks here, even though it is far away from the main action of University and 5th.  This new coffee place is right on 5th with Brooks St being the cross street

La Marque is right on th with Brooks St being the cross street. If you go farther up on 5th, you will see the ridiculously long lines at the overrated Hash House. La Marque is before that...

Anyhow, while walking over to 5th, we were amused by this hairy rodent...

Tobey's 19th Hole and no, this is not about a bodily deformity...

Last weekend was another one of our morning dates. We'd already been to the East Village for several weeks...

I thought it would be cool to check out an older and not so shiny and new place...

located at the Balboa Park Golf Course...

Armenian meatballs and flatbread...

A few Fridays ago, I met up with some friends for a cocktail party...

hosted by one of the gal at the gym...

Return to Sahara and sweets from Pistachios

Earlier today I met up with MFH in her part of town...

We watched a movie. Yes, THAT one. I'm debating within myself whether to post my verbal diahrrhea on it. Or not.  For the time being. Not.  Suffice it to say, we enjoyed the movie especially the unintentionally hilarious moments. Lunch was enjoyed afterwards across the street from the theater...

Moscow Deli

In this strip mall with random businesses was our lunch destination...

No, not Mama Hong's, but the deli of Russian persuasion...