Urban Solace Restaurant Review:
Urban Solace in North Park is known for its lively bar scene, bluegrass brunch and creative fare from chef Matt Gordon. Go straight for the Sonoma goat cheese and butternut squash dip with cornmeal crackers or the warm cheese biscuits lavished in orange-honey butter. We like the braised beef cheeks with smoked tomato jam, nestled artfully on brown butter mash. Cocoa-crusted pork belly mingles...
Updating The 38 Essential San Diego Restaurants, July '14:
Hello there, it's time to update the Eater 38, your answer and ours to any question that begins with, "Can you recommend a restaurant...?" This specially selected group covers much of the city, spans myriad cuisines, and aims to collectively satisfy all of your restaurant needs. Every few of months, we'll be adding worthy restaurants that were omitted, have newly become eligible, or have...
Where Chefs Eat With BO-beau's Katherine Humphus:
BO-beau Kitchen + Bar's chef Katherine Humphus, who was recently named head of the Cohn's BO-beau kitchen + rooftap in Long Beach is a San Diego native who trained in Paris, earning Le Grand Diplome in cuisine and pastry from Le Cordon Bleu. The executive chef has also logged time at Wylie Dufresne's WD-50 in Manhattan and The French Laundry with Thomas Keller.
"Down-home cooking" takes on a "creative" bent at this "reasonably priced" American in "funky" North Park, where the "creamy comfort food" is made with "gourmet" ingredients and features "interesting, eclectic" twists; a "straightforward" staff tends to "relaxed yet hip" clientele in a "dim, romantic" space that gets especially "crowded" during the "bomb" Sunday bluegrass brunch; P.S. Encinitas...