During mid-June, the Missus had a hair appointment, and I gladly "volunteered" to drive Her and wait. If you recall, the Missus's hairdresser is located in North Park.
I somehow "randomly" found parking near Toronado. How convenient. It had been a while since I last visited. I ordered a Pliny the Elder....and totally forgetting about this "blog thing" took a sip before remembering to take a photo. Bad food blogger....bad food blogger. Anyway, as always the temp was just perfect.
**** Toronado has closed
Toronado
4026 30th St
San Diego, CA 92104
All too soon, the Missus walked on over....She's not so much into beer these days, so we decided to take a stroll and decide where to grab dinner. And ran into the North Park Thursday Market.
It's a rather small run. Located on North Park Way between 29th and 30th. But it was fun just watching people chill and enjoy sunny San Diego.
The North Park Thursday Market
3000 N Park Way
San Diego, CA 92104
Thursdays 3pm - 730pm
While She is not a fan of the wine glasses Tribute uses; it had been a while since we last visited.
We started with the Sea Salt Focaccia with 'Nduja; to which they now add a dish balsamic and olive oil.
The bread was fabulous; I think we'll now ask for just olive oil without the balsamic, which was a bit too much. The 'Nduja tasted great as always; though the texture seems to have changed. It's now more waxy than I recalled. Still tasted great, a mild porky, smokey-spiciness.
The potatoes in the Patatas Bravas were nice; crunchy exterior, mildly creamy interior.
The potatoes were perfectly salted; but it seemed that the aioli was overkill and just over powered the mild starchy sweetness of the potatoes.
The Missus; who loves green beans just destroyed it all before I even had a bite.
Oh well, She's the reason we came up here in the first place, right?
Tribute Pizza
3077 N Park Way
San Diego, CA 92104
It was a fun way to spend an early summer Thursday evening.
I'm thinking "FOY" CC must have though so too! Look where they went for their 23rd Anniversary Dinner! Nice!
Hope you're having a great week!
Tribute is our new favorite pizza place - we love their soft serve ice cream, but usually we're too full to have it. That bread is amazing.
Posted by: James | Friday, 27 July 2018 at 05:54 AM
We love the bread at Tribute James!
Posted by: Kirk | Friday, 27 July 2018 at 07:03 AM
It's been so hot this week I haven't had the motivation to dine out. It's finally cooling down just in time for the weekend. Time to hit some new spots!
Posted by: Junichi | Friday, 27 July 2018 at 09:34 AM
We've been hitting some of our eat-to-beat-the-heat spots and eating at home as well Junichi. Have a great weekend!
Posted by: Kirk | Friday, 27 July 2018 at 09:50 AM
everything sounded great!
Posted by: kat | Monday, 30 July 2018 at 12:58 AM
We had a great time Kat!
Posted by: Kirk | Monday, 30 July 2018 at 08:41 AM