Color Coincidence

Stacked Burger Joint

Semi-new burger spot opened recently at Fashion Valley mall in San Diego called Stacked. You order (and pay) on an Ipad at your table. They have their menu as a touch screen App. Original concept, sorta, that makes it impossible for your super specific order to be messed up. Not too pricey at all. Burgers were really good actually, fries tasted like paper, not waiting 30 minutes to pay your bill was the best part.

No picture of the food, I was hungry. But close your eyes and imagine a burger, there.

New Pick Up: Oliberté Gando Boot

Picked up a pair of Oliberté boots from Aloha Sunday in San Diego on Friday. The new boot company out of Canada is manufactured completely in Africa and is the first Western company to do so. The quality of these boots is insanely top notch, plus the missus loves 'em so that's always a plus.

Hillcrest Sunday Lunch - The Range

We ventured to Hillcrest (Sarah's backyard: she works in the area and opts for casual sight seeing walks instead of the quite popular 'food' on her lunch breaks) for lunch on Sunday aiming to introduce me to a place she has been frequenting lately. But, after waiting a good 15 minutes for even an acknowledgment that we were in the building, let alone a greeting or a drink order, we decided to journey elsewhere. Literally a few steps down the street we ran into The Range.

The Range is the newest spot in Hillcrest, opened two weeks ago but was already crawling with patrons. They feature a great, simple selection of organic ingredient dishes. Burgers, sandwiches, salads AND breakfast all day long!

We split a Julian hard cider that was awesome; not too dry, perfect sourness and 6.99% alcohol! I got the hand breaded with potato chips chicken strips with a Belgian waffle and Sarah got a pear, roasted almonds and blue cheese salad. Both were absolutely perfect, but as always Sarah enjoyed mine better than hers, regardless of what she'll tell you.

Solace: Occasional Necessity

Alone. Moleskine. Silence. Park. Needed.

MM FOOD

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late, personally I blame Sarah for not caring. Well, either that or the fact she's super busy finishing up school and working full time. Ok, ok, so I'm to blame, get over it.

Torpasta (Voted Best Sandwich in San Diego)
Pasta served in a bread roll, gutted and buttered inside then toasted.

Devine Pastabilities

Just another underrated hole-in-the-wall eatery in San Diego. The concept is pretty clever; as you can already tell from the title. You'll have your whole week's worth of carbs in one of these sandwiches, but it's definitely worth it. Pasta in a sandwich--they call it "torpasta," resembling a torpedo, loaded with pasta--I call it brilliant. Anyway, they scoop out the contents of a bread roll and brush the insides with garlic butter and toast it; your choice of pasta goes in there afterwards. The scooped-out contents are made into garlic bread appetizers so nothing goes to waste. Pricing is cheap considering you're having pasta--between $6-$10.

Sweet deal, if you ask me

Doesn't scream out fancy at all, which makes it even cooler

Toasted insides!

I had the macahelper and Jesse had the carbonara (I preferred his over mine; so much that I took a pic of its profile as shown below).

Jennifer Steinkamp's Madame Curie

As mentioned on the previous post, we recently visited Museum of Contemporary Arts SD for Jennifer Steinkamp's "Madame Curie." It was recommended to me by one of the employees while I was visiting their permanent collection across the street. In my opinion, Contemporary lies in extremes--either the piece was done exceptionally well or you're just staring at a pile of trash. The genius and the terrible are often muddled into one room and that's the case for this exhibition along with others in existence. Thoroughly enjoyed Steinkamp's video work, though; my liking was intensified because post rock goodness was playing in mi ear the entire time.

Lego Space

Since one member of this blog, not me, is notoriously horrible when it comes to uploading pictures from our excursions, I figured I'd share at least a few pictures from a recent Museum trip we took in San Diego.

Here's a few shots of a really cool melted down Lego landscape with a moon landing theme to it. On display currently at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in downtown SD.

For the Love of Burgers

It's no secret, we love burgers. So only natural we'd try out Burger Lounge in San Diego. A few of these franchised joints have been popping up in trendy San Diego neighborhoods lately.

Not your typical fast food burger. Organic ingredients make these ground beef delights juicy and flavorful. The half onion rings/half fries order is a must to give you the best of both worlds.

Lost and Not Found

So driving home from Niederfrank's a line of about 8 cars in front of us suddenly slammed on their breaks. Naturally, at first I was pissed at the abruptness but upon figuring out the reason for the break lights, I wasn't mad at all. More concerned than anything; because this little guy was frightfully attempting to cross a major street, in the pouring rain.

After passing by we made a quick u-turn and coaxed the dog into our car with Sour Peach Rings. (The only food in my car. What's worse being hit by a car or getting worms?) About 4pm in the afternoon, ALL the local animal shelters had already closed so that was no option at all. A nearby mailman informed us that the dog looked similar to one on his route but wasn't certain. This didn't pan out. All out of options we had no choice but to let the dog go again and bid him good luck on his quest to find his owner.

And yes, the little dude WAS wearing a sweater.

Homemade Ice Cream

Nevermind the fact it's been raining for 5 straight days; when you crave ice cream you crave ice cream and that's that.

Found this homemade ice cream spot that's been around since 1948 in National City. No longer owned by the Niederfrank family, it still held a family owned and operated feel to it.

Tons of obscure flavors, Avocado and Red Mint Chip to name a few, to choose from. Played it safe and went with Golden Pistachio and Brownies and Cream. In the end the ice cream did not disappoint. We will be back, most likely not during the rain though.

Big Baby: Blast From The Past

Found this picture 561264 took back in the summer. Definitely had to share it with all 3 of you viewers.

Hash House A Go Go

Been trying to eat at this spot for a very long time now. There was finally a line short enough for us to wait it out, 45 minutes.

Walgreens Adventure II

Couldn't pass up the chance to share this pronographic toy with you as well. Turns out you blow this one up though the penis shafted mouth piece, which not coincidentally is flesh colored. Oh, and this guy has a vagina back as well.

Walgreens Adventure

Late night Walgreens run yesterday with your bloggers, only to find the most pornographic children's toys for sale. Check out this pink vagina back, uhhh, thing.

Phil's BBQ

We've been wanting to check out this restaurant for some time now--finally got the chance to do so on Wednesday. It was a whimsical decision actually, I was craving crepes, Jesse wasn't craving anything in particular, but he was the one who had the Eureka moment. Didn't have the camera along so no official TAOR pics of our food. The place is typically a full house, but since we went on a weekday afternoon, we had no problem finding a seat. Though I have to say, at such an odd hour of the day, it was still pretty busy.

Anyhow, on to the food: We ordered the El Toro (tri-tip sandwich), BBQ Veggie Burger, Chick Tickler (comes with onion rings, coleslaw, and fries), and Onion Rings. Wasn't too fond of my Veggie Burger, but who am I kidding? A meat-central restaurant and you order a veggie sammie? Not a good call on my part. Everything else was DELICIOUS. Onion Rings can never go wrong. The Tri-tip sammie was on point. The chicken was tender and moist. Needless to say, we're coming back for sure.

Monday Music Mayhem

Helios - Distance


Handsome Boy Modeling School feat. Cat Power - I've Been Thinking


Built to Spill - Life's A Dream


On a side note, Built to Spill will be performing at The Belly Up Tavern on Wednesday, October 27th with ReVoLtReVoLt--never heard of em, but I'm not liking their usage of alternating caps. First impression prevails.

And because it's catchy....
Rick Ross - Blowing Money Fast (BMF) Feat. Styles P

Space Invader Hits San Diego: Part II

As previously shown, Space Invader hit San Diego as he does the rest of the world's biggest cities; subtly loud. This time it was at the worst mall in America, Horton Plaza (located in Downtown San Diego.) Horton Plaza has nothing a standard mall does and definitely wont have the store you're looking for. Compile that with the absurdly moronic architectural lay out of the low budget hell hole and you've got yourself a real piece of crap.

Space Invader, I hope you don't judge San Diego on your experience at Horton Plaza but thanks for the tile piece next to the escalators.

Space Invader Hits San Diego

I initially suspected an impostor when Sarah sent me the pic. I followed up, turns out Space Invader was in San Diego for Comic Con and left his mark, as he traditionally does.