Time to take a fast train
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Personal |
The Gaslamp district of San Diego is laid out like a PacMan maze. Block after block, turn after turn no matter where you look there’s a restaurant.
Not just any restaurant. No, these restaurants are the fine and refined best that San Diego has to offer. In order to even be considered for dining, these places need to have as a standard “Zagat Rated” hanging in front of their establishment. But it doesn’t stop there: every positive article, written in “Fine Dining” or the San Diego Tribue must be posted as well. One place was found without either: McDonalds. But hanging dutifully in the window was the article, proclaiming McDonald’s coffee better than Starbucks.
Not bad for a clown.
This maze of restaurants is conveniently located at the end of the Amtrak line, the Santa Fe train station. A 30 minute drive from my house puts me inside the train. After all, with gas breaching $4/gallon the train ticket to San Diego is now cost effective. With decent public transportation, a traveler can easily get around without having to worry about parking.
With that being said: San Diego is now designated as one of my haunts, some place where I can escape for a day. Or two. Captain Kirk already helped me once, why not again?
Unfortunately on this last trip, my parents don’t share my culinary sense of adventure in trying new places. We ate at the “comfort food” places, which was fine.
It’s only two hours away from Chez Cliff.
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Ah… San Diego…
I recall that seafood restaurant that we went to many, many moons ago. The most memorable part was the Calamari. That was the best I’ve ever had. Every place I’ve been since is compared to that and is like a mouth full of rubber bands in comparison…
As for train travel, it is becoming the better way to travel out here as well. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a 5 minute drive with free parking for residents.
By train it takes 2 hours to get to NYC. By car, 1 hour, depending on traffic. Then there is parking which is generally around $45 for part of the day. Of course the gas, which seems to be the highest prices in the country. Grrr… Train ticket round trip is about $25.
It’s definitely the way to travel to the city around here…
We haven’t reached that income quite yet where we charter a helicopter into the city. Sometime soon…
Let me know the next time you are headed to San Diego. I can point you to a few places that aren’t in the gaslamp. I was the Catering Manager at Cafe Sevilla before I realized working in F&B was going to make me bald.
@Matt: That calamari is still the best I had ever had. It’s too bad I can’t remember where that restaurant is located or what it was called.
@Carla: Cool! I definitely will! Always go local - words to live by. And since you handled catering, kudos to you.