Ah! Fast food. It used to be so easy. Need a quick bite when you’re on the road or hungry for some cheap tasty food? No problem. Just run to the nearest fast food place you love, order the meal, and away you eat. But not so fast. Times have changed, and eating your favorite…
Torrence, CA (KTLA) — Activists on both sides of the gay rights issue are putting fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A in the spotlight this week — with day two of demonstrations calling for a same-sex “kiss-in.” Friday’s event, dubbed the “National Same-Sex Kiss Day,” asks couples to go to one of the chicken restaurant’s locations and…
Celebrate 21 years of love at San Diego’s premiere restaurant tasting benefitting Mamas Kitchen featuring distinctive dishes by more than 55 top chefs. Mama’s Day 2012 is this Friday, May 11 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency, La Jolla. Two key new features of the event are a VIP Cabana Lounge featuring…
Good intentions are often misplaced as in the above photo. A young ad man proudly showed off his language skill and used this popular English phrase as an eye-catching slogan. It was a great success among foreigners who came in droves with their cameras. Surely the store owner was pleased. Similarly a Vietnamese restaurant near…
In my first column of the New Year I made a plea. I asked for more LGBT art events to report on. This is a weekly arts column and I was struggling to find fresh and interesting gay-related work to cover on an ongoing basis. A couple of weeks ticked by and there was no…
I don’t often write about chain restaurants as I feel that not all of them have what it takes to be in the market with the independents. Most do not have notable executive chefs and menus tend to be set by the corporate office. During my days as a corporate traveler for hotels, I had…
BERLIN – An ad campaign developed in 2009 has come back to haunt the agency that created it. German advertising agency Scholz & Friends, designed the ad, which shows a steak branded with the words ‘Tofu ist schwules fleisch’ (Tofu is gay meat) for restaurant chain, Maredo, but it was never used in public. Der…
The farm-to-table concept of restaurants has to be one of the hottest trends out there today. Chefs all over the world continue to market their favorite farms and farmers, and it is not uncommon these days for them to list the places where the ingredients come from on their menus. If you look around our…
In support of gay art Dear Editor, This is in response to the article by Andrew Printer called “More gay art, please!” in the San Diego LGBT Weekly. I am a gay artist and have been living in San Diego for over 10 years. My experience of showing gay–art themed paintings in this city has…
Volunteer! It Does a Body Good! On April 26, more than 100 restaurants, bars, coffeehouses and nightclubs in San Diego will donate 25-100% of the day’s sales to The Center’s HIV/AIDS services and prevention programs! Each year Dining Out for Life® San Diego is a major success thanks to our generous participating restaurants and the…
