Bibby's Crepe Cafe

CREPE(noun) - a thin light pancake

Infor: If you think you there is nothing good on UCSD's campus that's good to eat, then being on the campus on Tuesday's will definitely change your mind because we have a decent farmers' market next to Price Center every Tuesday. However, if you haven't been to the farmers' market, and you have no idea what to eat, you should aim for the longest line. There are 2 big giants at the farmers' market, one is Lemon Grass, the other is the almighty Bibby's Crepe. Whenever I go to farmers' market, Bibby's is my only consideration; however, sometimes it is very hard to be patient to wait for another Tuesday to come, so I decided not to wait for another Tuesday and head to its restaurant by the beaches.

Location: It's a nice area to go to because you have the beaches so close to you, but you decide to go on a weekend, you may be looking at a good 20 minutes around-the-block looking for parking.

Friendly Reminder: To find this place, it's better the Google Map this location rather than relying on your GPS before you decide to head out because this place doesn't stick out much and you get a lot of narrow streets and usually with busy traffics around this area.

Food: Savory and sweet crepe, they are both good, but depends on your mood. Some people only prefer eating sweet crepe, but personally when you are here, you can't go wrong with either.

On the left: Savory crepe with spinach, egg, and swiss cheese. On the right: pan fried bananas with rum, whipped cream, and a scope of vanilla ice cream.

Price: a bit pricey for a light lunch, I paid a total of $24 including tips at the end for two crepes. Comparing to the school's Bibby's, eating at the restaurants costs a lot because the savory crepes only cost $9, and the sweets cost $8. Furthermore, tips are "optional" since it's farmers' market, and the portion is twice as big, so it really is unnecessary to go to the restaurant. However, if you think your choices are limited, then going to the restaurant will triple your choices in both savory and sweet crepes.

Bottom Line: If you are a UCSD student who spends a decent amount of time on campus on Tuesdays', going to Bibby's should become a habit of yours



Address:723 Pearl St

La Jolla, CA 92037

(858) 459-0558

Pastalini

This week's restaurant is a not-so-far-away (5 miles) from UCSD, Pastalini.
As you would all guessed, it's a place for pasta and pizza. Pastalini is able to differentiate itself by having your pasta in a matter of minutes. It's a perfect place for lunch when you only have less than 45 minutes to spare, or may be even dinner, but you gotta be hurry because it closes early.

The other main reason you want to try it out is because you can customize your own pasta or pizza, a very similar environment to Subway. You first go up to th e line and pick the type of pasta you want then sauce, meat, and 2 vegetables.At last, they will cook it right in front of you at the end, and since the pastas are already cooked, they just need to cook the rest of the ingredients and add in the pasta and heat them up at the end, and all of these take less than 10 minutes.All of these are just $5.95, which is slightly more than what you pay for a foot-long at Subway.

However, if you feel like having a pizza for lunch, feel free to build your own. Same price if you order a small, but you the same great taste as you would for pasta. The only offset is to have to wait a a bit longer than the pastas since the pizzas are all freshly made you might to need wait up to 15 minutes.

Overall, I think this is an excellent place to have lunch on weekdays, but if you are thinking to go on weekends and hoping for any places to go right after around that area, the closest place you can find is the UTC Westfield. As for UCSD students, I would highly recommend this place if you get tired of dorm food, and don't mind to drive for 10 minutes to have an nice plate of pasta.




ADDRESS: 7190 Miramar Rd. Suite Ste 109 San Diego, CA 92121
PHONE NUMBER:  (858) 695-9779

First Entry

Whichwich? (San Diego)
Ever since two months ago, my girlfriend and I decided to try at least one new restaurant per week in San Diego. How do we pick the places? I would go to Yelp to look for any particular type of food we would like to eat and just try it out. This week I happened to have a craving for bread pudding, so Yelp led me to a place called Bread & Cie over at Hillcrest. However, when we get there, I begin to feel disappointed because first of all, they don't have bread pudding, and second, the environment just doesn't fit the food it serves, so we decided to take a walk around the block to look for other places.
After 30 minutes of walking around the block, we have come to a place called Whichwich?.

Overall this is just another type Subway, but with significant minor details.
First, which I found very interesting was the way of how you would order and customize your sandwich. You would pick out a paper bag with your choice of meat or vegan in one of these boxes, and then you would work your way down marking the type of bread, white or wheat, whether you wanted it toasted or not, and the ingredients such as cheese, topping, dressing and vegetables. At the very bottom you get to write your name

Second, you will find yourself stress free and you can take all the time you need before handing the bag to the register and pay for it, unlike Subway you usually have a line of people behind you waiting for you to complete your customization.
<----After you paid, they would clip your bag on this wire

Third, the interior is pretty interesting.

<----a 20-feet wall of paper bags with people's drawings.----->




Unfortunately, I didn't take any picture of the sandwich I got because we were to hungry, but this will also give you a reason to go down there and see for yourself. =D