San Diego’s Soul Food Finds the Right Climate
San Diego is known for beautiful beaches and year round pleasant weather, plus, yes, soul food. Soul food in this predominantly Mexican food environment is here. There was a time when many soul food and barbeque restaurants lined the streets of southeast San Diego. Today, most of those original places are gone but soul...
Cali Comfort, bloody Mary with candied bacon…and wings
Where do you take a 16 year old grand nephew for wings? Cali Comfort for Low ‘n Slow bbq in Spring Valley, of course! Brad exclaimed these were the best wings ever, while he dipped into all the different sauces and gobbled each wing. Being an adult, I opted for a pulled pork sandwich and...
Smoked brisket in El Cajon, Ca
Izzy’s Café, known for their Southern Smokehouse BBQ in El Cajon keeps popping up on the radar. I’ve driven by this corner café for many years without giving it much thought, that is, until people continually raved about the brisket. Okay, it’s near Second and Broadway (an intersection just to get through) but deserved a...
Off the strip, BBQ wins in Las Vegas
Just had to stop at John Mull’s BBQ and Road Kill Grill in North Las Vegas on the way home, after all, it had been featured on Guy Fieri’s DDD show. It seemed to be out in nowhere land and through an older residential neighborhood until the dirt lot with lots of cars appeared. People...
