Our anti-Black Friday - Return to Nate's Garden Grill

Shopping on Black Friday has never really been our thing. Instead of heading off to the mall with the rest of the angry hordes, we put up our Christmas tree and once it was up, headed off to lunch...

over in City Heights, right off Home Ave from the 805...

As you can see, not a cloud in the sky...

Return to Grant's Marketplace

Last weekend, we headed over to South Park to take our family Christmas photo in the parking lot of abandoned laundromat on 30th and Redwood.  Why there? They have awesome street art murals and I wanted something entirely different from last year as well...

We did "photo shoot" first, then it was off to breakfast in the same neighborhood...

South Cali Steak Burger Bar

A few days ago TC and I were down in south CV which gave us an opportunity to finally go here...

The South Cali Steak Burger Bar on the southwest corner of Third and Montgomery. Back in the odle days, this used to be a mariscos place for the longest time...

Thanksgiving 2014

It was so nice getting this card in the mail earlier this week...

I have such a thoughtful hairstylist who is "old school" in that she loves to send cards for all of the major holidays. I like that and who doesn't love getting something nice in the mail?

This year, Thanksgiving was once again spent at my parents' house...

Chocolate Kouign Amann from b patisserie

Earlier this week, Bert saw in facebook that one of our friends was in San Francisco with his kids. There was a recent post featuring a photo of his kids with "mock scowls" and the caption, "Before the coffee and pastries at b. patisserie"....Then an "after" photo of them smiling...

All I heard was "b patisserie"!   I actually texted him right away and said, "OMG, you're there? You have try their kouign amann!"

Last stop - Tap Tap Boba

[Update - As of late 2015, Tap Tap Boba is now called VaniTea Cafe. Word to the wise, last year Tap Tap Boba stole a brick toast photo from Kirbie and used it on their Facebook and Instagram as well as a Buy 1 Get 1 Free Coupon. No permission and no apology, therefore, no more business from me. Shady.]

The kids had a busy morning/afternoon volunteering for a fundraiser at a fancy hotel. Although they were given a free catered lunch, we still wanted to treat them at the end of their day...

Tap Tap was on the way home so...

Stop 6 - Seafood City, the Last Stop

Our last stop was going to be here, one of my favorite markets, Seafood City.

(older photo from an older post that I can't find and link)

Mary hadn't been to this one and both Minxi and S were newbies to Seafood City...

Star Dust....for the nth time

It was well past the morning and in the early afternoon hours. We just had to see if Star Dust was open...

See the sign? That was earlier that morning, around 9 am. Closed.  But at 1 pm, it was a different story...

Babycakes Bake Shop, Imperial Beach

The other week, I saw that there was a new Babycakes bakery right across from the new Coronado Brewing Company..

Since we didn't go, I thought Bert and I could give it a try for our mini crawl...

Return to Coronado Brewing Company

Bert and I were pretty much recreating the food crawl from last week. Here is the view of the "Art" noodle sculpture at the very end of Imperial Beach Ave...

You can kind of see the letters before you make the right turn onto Seacoast Drive...

Return to Palapa Nayarit

With only a few tacos as "tasters", Bert and I walked over to nearby Palapa Nayarit...

I was curious to try their birria for comparison...