If Phat Philly can fly out bread, you’d think someone should be able to fly out bagels.

That pizza looks like the bombjamma. Best blogpost of ’09!

Oh, and of course, nobody makes plate lunch correctly on the mainaland.

Keep in mind there are restaurants where you can get a decent pizza — I’m mainly focusing on street food or slices. But even the delivery pizza is sad, and for some reason this “two for one” pizza idea has stuck. Ugh, that drove me nuts.

Yeah, it’s a sushi war up there, hope we don’t run out of fish. And dim sum everywhere, mmm. The indian is great too, especially Vij’s – no reservations + big line mean quality in my book.

No indian pizza up there though. :)

I second that on the foil preserving the structural integrity (and therein the flavor). Yes, many if not most places in San Diego don’t use the foil. Some will use it if you get it to go but one thing I learned is that it must be foil rolled correctly, i.e,- tightly!
oh yeah. That grilled pizza looks awesome by the way!

I guess it comes down to whether you like beans / rice (not hard to avoid), and steamed vs grilled.

Though I think the real issue is the foil. I get the impression that SD burrito places don’t wrap burritos in foil?

All I can say is god help those people who completely pull the foil off their burritos. Don’t they realize it is critical to their structural integrity? The big complaint I hear about SF burritos from outsiders is “they’re a mess”. Of COURSE it will be a mess if you remove the foil. DON’T PULL OFF THE FOIL — the foil is your friend, you peel it like a banana as you eat.

And what’s with the places in SD that put french fries in their burritos? I like fries, trust me, but in a burrito? WTF? Carne asada fries though, that’s a different story.