Queenstown Public House (1557 Columbia St., Little Italy) is a new addition to the surprisingly robust set of Eastern Antipodian (e.g., New Zealand) culinary and drinking options in San Diego. Under common ownership (P.J. Lamont and Matt Baker) with Raglan Public House (1851 Bacon St., Ocean Beach) and Bare Back Grill (4640 Mission Blvd., Pacific Beach), Queenstown Public House is the slightly upscale cousin in the family. ...

In my article in this week's Summer Guide, I wrote about my return to the Morley Field Velodrome. Befitting my status update from bicycle racer to San Diego CityBeat food writer, the purpose of my visit was a picnic—and the focus of my picnic was this homemade pork and chicken-liver pâté bánh mì. ...

Nibbles is feeling a little under-the-weather this week (cure-all soup recommendations, anyone?), so this round-up's gonna be short and sweet:Mark your calendar for Sunday, March 24, when the San Diego Public Market in Barrio Logan holds its first Street Food Market. Plans are to transform the market's warehouse space into a multicultural feast-fest. Participants include Javier Plascencia (Mision 19), Hanis Cavin (Carnitas Snack Shack), Ricardo Heredia (Alchemy), Shihomi Borillo (Azuki Sushi), Matt Gordon (Urban Solace, Sea & Smoke) and more than a dozen others. Proceeds from the event will help build the Market Kitchen, a space within the Public Market that will offer cooking classes and a kitchen for small businesses to develop their products. VIP tickets are $85; general admission tickets are $55 through March 16 and $65 after. Buy 'em here. ...

There are a few things that have become a central part of San Diego’s identity, like sunny weather, references to whale’s vaginas, Comic-Con and, of course, craft beer. San Diegans love their craft beer.One of those people is Julie Wartell, who used her mapping skills (she's a crime analyst whose work has included mapping out where sex offenders can and can't live in San Diego County) to create PubQuest, a website and app that shows the location of more than 3,300 breweries, brew houses and craft-beer-serving pubs in the U.S. and Canada. ...

New Downtown spot Bailiwick has been open for a little more than a month and, this week, launched a brunch menu. The options lean savory—which makes sense, given that Bailiwick's, um, bailiwick, is ...