HeyJaredSan Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour
The weekly guide to San Diego's food + drink scene, hosted by award-winning food writer and Food Network host Troy Johnson and San Diego Magazine's culture brain, Jackie Bryant.
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The Cookbook They Wish They'd Had (opens the original)
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If you think a cookbook about pregnancy sounds like a collection of sad smoothies and recipes involving seven different kinds of seeds, Eric Wolfinger and Torie Borrelli Hall have some news for you. Their new book, Eating for Life: A Holistic Cookbook for Pregnancy and a Thriving Family , has carbonara, lasagna, steak, chocolate mousse, and plenty of other delicious food to keep you both satisfied and nourished. This week on Happy Half Hour , Eric—a James Beard Award-winning food photographer an
Brunch, Benedicts, and a Little Tequila (opens the original)
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Brunch is a meal that exists because we decided breakfast needed a later start time and a liquor license. This week on Happy Half Hour , hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant are in Oceanside at Toasted Gastrobrunch with chef Alfie Szeprethy and Preston Caffrey of Bebemos Tequila. They talk about the strange and winding history of brunch, from its British origins to its inevitable American evolution into a social event involving eggs, enormous plates of food, and drinking before noon. On the menu
The Family Behind Some of San Diego's Best Sushi (opens the original)
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If you've been to a big San Diego food event and there's a whole tuna getting broken down in front of a crowd, there's a good chance Jeff Roberto is somewhere nearby. Roberto has been making sushi in San Diego for 38 years, back when there were only seven sushi restaurants in the county. Now, through Sushi on a Roll, he and his nephew Austin have become one of the city's go-to teams for high-end traditional sushi catering—and tuna breakdowns big enough to stop a party in its tracks. On this week
Inside Glass Box's Award-Winning Omakase (opens the original)
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Glass Box isn't your typical sushi restaurant. Tucked inside the Sky Deck in Del Mar, chef and owner Ethan Yang serves omakase from inside a literal glass box—a transparent kitchen built around the idea that what you see is what you get. It's a fitting philosophy for a third-generation restaurateur whose food is rooted as much in family as technique. On this week's Happy Half Hour , Yang joins host Troy Johnson to talk about growing up in his family's Rancho Bernardo restaurants, learning to mak
A Steakhouse Worth the Mission Valley Detour (opens the original)
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The Remy occupies a building that's been serving San Diegan's steaks for more than 50 years. Longtime locals remember it as Hungry Hunter. Today, it's been reimagined as a modern American steakhouse—one that still nods to its past while carving out a new identity of its own. This week on Happy Half Hour , Troy Johnson, Jackie Bryant, and Bebemos co-founder Preston Caffrey head to a western-grit-meets-contemporary steakhouse for Golden Hour with chef José Ruigomez and Beverage Director Ken Fordan
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