Chicken Pie Diner – Revisit

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Are y’all ready for Christmas?? I will be because we’re on track to have a fully functional kitchen before Christmas, yippee!
Just a quick update on one of the places we ate this past week. We’ve been to Chicken Pie Diner before for lunch (you can read about our first [...]

Kaminski’s Bar BQ & Sports Lounge

We typically don’t like BBQs that are vinegar and/or ketchup based and haven’t found a place we like in SD. But on a recent evening when we needed a break from another evening of microwaved dinners, I chose to try the new Kaminski’s Bar BQ & Sports Lounge in Poway. The Kaminski family has a long history in [...]

Kitchen Remodel – Week 3

In some ways, it doesn’t seem like it’s already the end of Week 3. And what a difference in just 2 weeks. All the plumbing, electrical, lighting and most of the drywall are done.
In what seems like no time at all, it went from this:

To this:

I realized this weekend that I never took before shots [...]

Sab-E-Lee 2

I’ve been anticipating the opening of Sab-E-Lee 2 and eager to see what sort of wonderful dishes they will be offering. And we can always count on Kirk (mmm-yoso) to provide a first look. We headed over this past weekend for dinner, armed with recommended dishes, appetites ready! I knew that I wanted to order dishes [...]

Ipo BBQ

Ipo BBQ (pronounced “ee-po”) replaced Maui Express earlier this year.  I had known Maui Express was up for sale and was glad to see another plate lunch takes its place since it is the only plate lunch establishment in Poway. We were hopeful that Ipo’s food would be better than Maui Express, which wouldn’t have been hard to do (enough said [...]