TAQUERIA 805 Food truck added to THE TACO LIST at ♦ Quite disappointing. Really lackluster. EL COMPADRE Atascadero added to THE TACO LIST at ♦ Full-on gringo spot. Would suffice only in an absolute PINCH. EFREN’S DELI Oceano upgraded on THE TACO LIST to ♦♦ Hadn’t visited for several years. Was was a bit more impressed this time. Soon to open a new…
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Drooling Over 2016 and Anticipating 2017
2016 was an exciting year of dining around the Central Coast, presenting itself with many new spots opening, some well publicized and eagerly anticipated, some barely noticeable and some just discovered by me for the first time. 2017 also is shaping up to be a banner year of eating out–the economy is providing many with…
THE DOWNTOWN SLO EDITION
Several restaurants added to THE Soifeats RESTAURANT LIST… All in SLO… all I have had the opportunity–or misfortune–to dine at on numerous occasions and almost all are part of the downtown-ish midtown lunch or pub core. THE GIANT GRINDER Part of a grouping of 4 or 5 sandwich shops within as many blocks of mid-town constantly…
THE OYSTER LOFT Pismo Beach
THE OYSTER LOFT Pismo Beach: Oh wow, rarely has a restaurant been so excitedly anticipated and taken so long to be realized. I went to this resty probably 4 months ago for a special BUBBLY FEST event and have been waiting patiently for it to open to the public ever since. Rumors of soft-openings began…
MILESTONE TAVERN San Luis Obispo
MILESTONE TAVERN San Luis Obispo’s newest restaurant and already a serious contender in the tap-room/lunch-bites category for the area. Being a couple blocks from Cal Poly and with an emphasis on beer, I had low expectations from the beginning for anything interesting being realized. Expecting a total bro-spot, I stopped in to view the menu…
BEST MORRO BAY RESTAURANTS: Local’s Edition
I live in San Luis Obispo County, and if there’s ONE consistent thing I hear involving dining–throughout the county–it is “Morro Bay?!? I don’t go to Morro Bay.” I get it CONSTANTLY from locals from Paso Robles to Santa Maria and everywhere in between. Just like Pismo, YES: there can be massive crushes of tourists…
60 PARK–Morro Bay
60 PARK Morro Bay. Those who read this blog regularly or follow on Instagram will know I plug a couple restaurants in Morro Bay HARD–along with practically a complete avoidance of almost ALL of the rest. I LOVE Morro Bay and, yes: I’m a local. Locals constantly question me, “WHY would you go to Morro…
The Spoon Trade Grover Beach
THE SPOON TRADE in Grover Beach is the newest in an ever-expanding group of Central Coast restaurants to open in the collective Arroyo Grande-Grover Beach-Pismo Beach area. Two visits in, I can safely say it comfortably completes an EMBER-COMFORT MARKET-SPOON TRADE trifecta for amazing, quality food, daringly conceived and perfectly presented. From the tartare to…
My Generation GIUSEPPE’S EXPRESS
I love GIUSEPPE’S EXPRESS in Pismo Beach for lots of things: gelato, salads, wonderful desserts, deli meat and Italian grocery items–wine, olive oil and pasta–but also for their simple little dry panini cold sandwiches stacked up in the case just like they sell on the street in France. I had two this week–with interesting results….
Pismo, and SIDECARSLO re-visits + TAPROOM
SEA VENTURE Pismo Beach continues to barely scrape by at ♦♦ Keep wanting to really love this restaurant and while things are rarely *dreadful*, it just never pleases at the level many in the area expect it to. Re-visited recently and as usual, a few things were stunning (abalone app) and several other items continued on the…
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