city beat beer club at pizza fusion
pizza fusion has been one of our favorite casual dining spots since it opened a few months ago. but it doesn't get much better than tonight when the city beat beer club threw one of their monthly beer giveaways there. as long as you signed up at the above promotion link, you could drink all the various stone brewing company beer that you wanted (tips appreciated of course). there were some other beers on tap too - something about "fruity" and "lemonade" to describe one, the other was fairly watery - but it's hard to beat being handed freshly-drawn stone IPA's as soon as you down one. even though the restaurant/bar was nearly full, there was no waiting for beer, and the personal pizza i ordered came up pretty fast too.
while i was waiting at the bar for jay to arrive, i made a new friend (who also works at SIO and went to university of delaware like me - weird!) who asked, "who makes money off this kind of thing?". indeed - whomever is footing the bill for us to all drink free beer, i thank you, and look forward to your future generosity! meanwhile i hear the reader is giving away free bibles to anyone who votes yes on prop 8 (kidding...).
we hit lotus thai for dinner afterwards since i shared most of my pizza, and it was as dead as pizza fusion was lively. ditto for dolce freddo, which had decent tart yogurt but a bland interior (shown below) with none of the personality of yog-art. we did notice that there's a "jack's on sixth" wine bar going in between dolce and lotus, but it's going to be tough to pull away the consistent big crowd at wine steals on university. still, this is turning into a diverse block of eateries, with ebisu sushi at the north end and yakitori still hanging in there to the south.
posted by Paul Jamason @ 9/24/2008 11:12:00 PM
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One of the beers on tap was MateVeza, an awesome American Pale Ale brewed with Yerba Maté.
// iw
Hey! After a few years of reading your insulting self-indulgent, pro-developer, leave-the neighborhood-if-you-don't-like-way I-want-to-change-it, life-is-a-journey-from-restaurant-to-bar entries, I finally came across an explanation of you:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/editors-choice
Notably:
"Of course, this group shuns the suburbs (sterile, bland … white—a view that hasn’t advanced much since Malvina Reynolds’s contemptuous “Little Boxes” of 1962) while it embraces certain neighborhoods as “authentic” (Williamsburg, Echo Park, the Mission) and spurns other enclaves and cities (say, Astoria, Reseda, Concord). Lander’s White People approve of the kind of diversity that affords them the aesthetic and consumer benefits of what they like to think of as urban life—that is, the kind that allows them to
get sushi and tacos on the same street. But they will also send their kids to private school with other rich white kids so that they can avoid the “low test scores” that come with educational diversity. "
And
"cultural righteousness” and “intolerance and groupthink”—a set of attitudes that enhances and is enhanced by a profoundly smug and incurious outlook."
Surely you can't think that hiding behind an anonymous handle and referencing a rant that references one of the most ubiquitous blogs of 2008 will serve to accomplish anything other than to solidify your membership in the Individuals Who Feel Better About Themselves by Attempting (poorly) to Take a Shot at Others club.
But bravo to you, for managing to cut and paste someone else's diatribe in an effort to "fight the man."
Ponder this for a sec... the "leave-the neighborhood-if-you-don't-like-[sic]way I-want-to-change-it" mentality is why the United States exists.
If you don't like the stance that this particular blog takes, then why have you been coming back and reading it, seemingly since its inception?
And no, I have no affiliation with the creator / contributor to this site... but your petty comment is absolutely ridiculous.
Don't listen to that comment above.....
Some of us actually enjoy reading about current events, new restaurants and viewpoints with a fresh twist.
I'm guessing the "other" anonymous is a native San Diegan (like myself), who still yearns for the old days when the El Cortez was the tallest building downtown and when Mission Valley was mostly cow pasture.
Not me, I welcome change.
thanks everyone for your comments. anonymous #1, we get a kick out of your posts, so keep them coming. we still refer to your "grazing" comment whenever we go out to eat, and now we have a new one with your "life is a journey" line.
frankly, it's weird how reporting on new neighborhood restaurants/bars in san diego is offensive to you. we do other things that probably don't qualify as self-absorbed, like volunteer work and spending time with our families. but that's not really the point of this blog, and probably kind of boring to all three people that read it.
regarding your link, i've read stuffwhitepeoplelike in the past and think it's pretty dead-on, but thanks anyway.
Geez, WTF is up with anonymous #1? Why would they spend a few years reading a blog they can't stand, and then unleash their venom on this of all posts? A quick review of beers and pizza and frozen yogurt???
Keep up the nice job, Paul. Don't let the internet weirdos get you down.
PS Dolce Freddo is probably my least favorite tart yogurt place. I know it's corporate, but I would definitely make the walk the couple of blocks to Pinkberry for my fix in that hood.
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