HOT OFF THE PRESSES—From Pillar to Post Blog: Piacere
Mio, a popular sandwich shop in South Park, is back as a full service ristorante. Closed in November for remodeling and
expansion (+ beer and wine license), the genial Italian owners, Marco Fontana
and Stefano Poletti, announce Sunday, May 24 will be Piacere Mio’s grand
reopening as a dinner house only.
Located at the corner of Fern and Grape Sts., Piacere’s announced
business Hours are:
Sunday - Thursday 5 pm – 10 pm
Friday - Saturday 5 pm – 11 pm
Reservations taken.
(619) 794-2543
Thanks to North Park real
estate maven Ron Oster (he often
sends out subscriptions to clients, potential clients and buddies) it was
gleaned from San Diego Magazine’s
June 2014 dining issue that North Park is the “best restaurant neighborhood in town.” That’s something locals have known for a year
but it is still great to see it in print.
SD Mag has been around since 1948 and keeping up with the restaurant
scene has been one of its strong points.
Pillar to Post Blog is a fan of Terryl
Gavre. Her Café 222 has been a
staple of delicious downtown breakfasts for years. More recently she has blossomed into one of
the town’s entrepreneurial stars by opening Bankers Hill Bar + Restaurant and a
few years later she’s added Acme Southern Kitchen in the East Village at 901 E
St. Acme specializes in tasty Dixie dishes.
Lefty's already famous C.B.G.B. sandwich |
IN OTHER MEDIA--Lately lots of media local and national is focusing on San Diego’s
historic North Park Neighborhood. Two nationally based restaurant reporting services
are doing a good job of filing San Diego and North Park with scoops and
snippets of local dish. Without Zagat’s recent venture into North Park,
for example, we wouldn’t know what New Yorkers think of our sandwiches. Zagat
reporter Darlene Horn recently singled out three North Park centric
establishments having great sandwiches:
--“Avocado Highway” from the
Big Front Door, 4135 Park Boulevard.
--“Triple Threat” at Carnitas
Snack Shack, 2632 University Avenue.
--“Cheesy Beef on Garlic
Bread” at Lefty’s Chicago Pizza, 3448 30th Street
Eater.com
is totally owned by Vox Media that’s based out of Washington DC and New York
City. Vox is a digital media giant with several editorial brands. Eater.com is one of them and boasts more than
300 sites nationally. Locally, Eater.com
contributing staff is usually the quickest in town to post a new opening and
with the lightning speed revolving door of restaurants in North Park and San
Diego, that’s a tough job that they’re doing well.
Here are some recent snippets
from Eater.com reinforcing North Park
is a jumping place. Eater’s recent news scoop
has Saiko Sushi signing a lease at the site of the ex-day labor hall at Granada
and University. Saiko is set to open in
November. Over at the North Parker, the
new 30th & Upas mixed use project, Eater.com reports the mid May opening of Modern Times craft beer tasting room and La Perla Taco will open around June 9.
Moving over to 29th
& University, Eater staffers were
among the first to spot the recent opening of Swami’s, the ninth in Swami owner’s chain of local comfort food
establishments.
Ian Cheesman
writing in City Beat this week makes
us take notice of “S’morelaska” dessert being served up at Waypoint Public (30th
and North Park way. Ian says Waypoint’s version makes other s’more’s
analog. Nice line for a tasty dessert.
Nina Garin
at the UT’s Night + Day points out
there is a nearby Ethnic Food Fair taking place in Balboa Park on Sunday. Many of the cottages at the House of Pacific
Relations are offering tastes of the old countries from 10 am to 5 pm. Entry is free but there is a charge for the
food.
And, of course if all this
food news makes you thirsty there’s City
Beat’s 5th annual TikiBeat Pool Party at the Lafayette Hotel Friday Nite from 6:30 to 10:30 pm.
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