Wine & Dine at the San Diego Bay - Nov. 12th-16th 2008

Hello fellow Grubtrotters...blogging to you for the first time during my class break. However, i was uber excited and wanted to give you the 411 on an highly anticipated event - The 5th Annual San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival which started today and runs until the 16th - November. The event will feature 160 wineries, 60 fine dining restaurants, cooking and wine tasting classes, celebrity chefs and more, get ready to please your inner foodie during this world class wine and food experience.

For the food lovers out there this tasting event will feature appearances by Ted Allen of Bravo TV's Top Chef and Food Network's Food Detectives, James Beard and Chef Gavin Kaysen of Café Boulud and many more.

For tickets and information, call 619-342-7337 or visit http://www.worldofwineevents.com/

Please post your feedback, i would love to hear your wine and food experiences!

Happy Drinking & Grubbing!

"Fish 'n' Chips" - Speaking From a True Brit!

Let me clarify a little bit for you...I was born in Manchester, England Home of the Famous “Fish ‘n’ Chips”. (Chips = French Fries in the states). In the UK, fish & chips became a cheap food popular among the working classes. I can vividly remember our “take-away fish n chip/James Bond nights”. (Bond was everyone’s idol at that time). Every Friday evening, my mom would take my siblings and I to a tiny fish n chip joint a mile away from our house, we would stock up on tartar sauce (a great dipping sauce) and ask for extra salt and vinegar on our chips. I strongly recommend malt vinegar, I know it sounds strange, but it is quite tasty. Fish n chips bring back a lot of fond memories from my childhood and I have yet to dine at or take-away from a place in San Diego that serves them just like they did back than. If anyone has any recommendations for a good fish n chip joint, please feel free to post your comments.

Happy Grubbing!

Wine Tasting in Venice - May 2008

Hello fellow Grubtrotters...I wanted to share with you a few photos of my trip from earlier this year. My friend and I stopped over in Venice for a few days and on the spur of a moment decided to do a wine tasting event at a local restaurant. Not only did they serve us 5 types of wines, but each wine came with a complimentary appetizer (we had no idea food was involved otherwise we would have not ate pasta an hour earlier). By far, this is the tastiest bruschetta i have ever had. More photos from my European Travel to come, keep posted &

Happy Grubbing!

My friend and I sitting down to taste our wine and food in Venice...doesn't get much better than this :)

Bruschetta with Sauvignon Blanc, killer combination...

Our waiter swirling red wine in a HUGE glass...and yes we did drink all of that!