Are all the really good San Diego restaurants hiding in non-descript strip malls? The aptly named Himalyan Cuisine, hiding behind a Dollar Only discount store at 7918 El Cajon Blvd. in La Mesa, features Nepalese, Tibetan, and Indian…
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August 2nd, 2010
Maxim Seafood Restaurant
Easy to miss Maxim Chinese restaurant, at 4616 El Cajon Blvd. in City Heights, if you’re not specifically looking for it. This stretch of El Cajon Blvd, between College and I-15, seems to feature a different ethnic flavor every couple…
July 18th, 2010
Ranas Mexico City Cuisine
Ranas (“frogs”) is tucked in next to a smog check station in a ramshackle strip mall at 9683 Campo Road in Casa de Oro, just north of the Kenwood exit to Highway 94. Owned and operated by Oscar Acosta and his…
May 27th, 2010
Gipper’s Ghost Grips Grossmont
After right wing dweeb and head of the California Republican party, Ron Nehring, proposed that the new Alpine High School be named after Ronald Reagan, a minor tempest arose in the East County bedroom community. Local hayseeds, many of…
May 27th, 2010
‘Zonies Vow To Zap ‘Dago
Word is that Arizona tourists are so pissed at our city council’s vote denouncing Arizona’s new immigration law that they’re boycotting San Diego as a tourist destination this summer, and the local Convention and Visitors Bureau is quaking in its…
