The Incredible Cheesecake Company &The Cravory

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

The Incredible Cheesecake Company (San Diego):

In San Diego, the are plenty of choices to go for desserts, you have Extraordinary Desserts, Heavenly Sent Desserts, The Cheesecake Factory, etc. If cheesecake is what you asked for, the above three do serve it; however, if The Cheesecake Factory might be you first choice because of its reputation in cheesecake in many cities, then you are mistaken.
 

Drinks

In San Diego, we have another fabulous place that also serves cheesecakes called The Incredible Cheesecake Company. The only way to live up to its name is to offer something incredible, which is why it serves only two things, coffee and cheesecakes. Some people may think cheesecakes are too sweet to eat by itself, which is why the owner decides to offer a variety of coffee to make sure you will have enough caffeine and sugar for the day. They have 34 drinks on their menu, only 4 aren't coffee.

Cheesecakes

Now, onto cheesecakes, they have 15 different kinds of cheesecakes on their daily menu, and an unknown amount of minimum of 20 flavors on special order. In my opinion, this place tops everywhere else that serve cheesecakes. The only downfall I can think of about this place is it doesn't serve anything else, like sandwiches or other "before dessert" food.

Price: $3.25 or $3.50 per slice, a pretty decent price tag for such extraordinary cheesecake.

Location: The neighborhood is kind of ghetto, and this place locates at a corner right after a bridge, which can be easily missed if you are traveling faster than 35mph. Parking is scarce because they are street parking, and most are already occupied by the local residents.

Within the restaurant: There are only 2 tables and 4 chairs in it, which means it is best to assume that you need to take your food home.

Address: 3161 Adams Ave
San Diego, CA 92116
Phone #: (619) 563-9722

The Cravory (San Diego):

Ultimate Chocolate Chip

If you decided to have a snack in between work or study, The Cravory may be your answer. The Cravory serves only one thing, cookies. These are anything but ordinary, the dullest cookie they have is a chocolate chip cookie. They called it the Ultimate Chocolate Chip, but even that is exceptionally good because it has "ludicrously large always-hand-chopped chunks of Guittard Gourmet Bittersweet Chocolate. To bring it one step further, milk and semi-sweet chocolates are added to seal the deal."


The rest of the menu is a bit hard to describe, so I will leave it to you to explore.

 Price: It is a little pricey; $2 per piece exactly, but you can mix and match and get half a dozen for $11, and a full dozen for $20.

Location: La Jolla Farmers Market (every Sunday 9:00am to 1:00pm) Hillcrest Framers Market (every Sunday (9:00am to 2:00pm)

KalbiQ (San Diego)

Regents-Nobel

Intro: Tired of having plain Mexican food, then it's time for you to try a fusion of Mexican and Korean food. KalbiQ is food truck that runs in La Jolla on weekdays and serves one of the best fast-food around. It uses Korean style marinated meat and blends them into traditional Mexican food, like carne asada fries, taco, and burritos. As a result, you get: bulgogi fries, short-rib burritos, and spicy-pork tacos. They also have kimchi burgers, and chimichangas, which is a deep fried burrito.

Location: It varies its location during mornings, and afternoons. It will usually be at East Gate Mall in the mornings, and starting at 4pm it will be at Regents-Nobel. The only way to make sure the opening time and current location is to follow them on twitter or facebook. Since they don't have a permanent schedule and location, so they will post their status prior they open. Because of the nature of food trucks, you will either bring it home or just eat it at the side of road, and be mindful of parking because it is nearly impossible to find a parking spot on the side of Regents' residential area.

Bulgogi Fries

Food: It's a very good experience if you are trying it for the first time because they added another spin to what you used to have at any commercial Mexican restaurants. Most of their food comes in a pretty big portion, so a single order would do just fine for one person. Unfortunately, they've stopped serving rice bowls and chicken, but nothing much is lost because the rest are as good. One other thing that's special about their burritos is they put fries instead of chucks of potatoes in them, and now with a purchase over $5, you will get a free taco.


Methods of payments: Paper or plastic is good here, so you don't need to worry about going to the ATM getting cash and coming back here.

Studio Diner & At Last Cafe

This week I will introduce 2 restaurants.

Studio Diner (San Diego):
This is actually one of those unless you have the intention to search for it or found out by someone; otherwise, this isn't a regular restaurant that you would spot very easily. First of all, this stands alone on the side of the street, and the size of its parking lot can only park 10 cars. The theme of the place is Studio, but you will only notice the theme due to the spot lights by the table, which they don't turn on..., but the food is amazing. We ordered a lobster roll, which contains 6oz of lobster meat in a small roll, a grilled portobello sandwich, and a Samson's Steak Sandwich with sweet potato fries, which is similar to a philly cheese steak sandwich taken to another dimension!

Lobster Roll

Samson's Steak Sandwich

Menu: Studio Diner has a unusual way in naming their menu. For example, breakfast is called First Shot the Day, salad is called Mom said, "Eat Your Greens," and wine is called Stuff You Drink But Not Drive With.
Price: It is a little pricy because the samson's steak sandwich costs $11.95, but it truely is a great experience in taste.
Hours: 24hours!!!!!
Location: 4701 Ruffin Road
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone #: 858-715-6400

At Last Cafe (Long Beach):

Bread Pudding

Brick Chicken

Interior

This is one of the MUST try restaurants in California. I was on my way up to LA last weekend due to Chinese New Year, and I remembered one of the restaurants Guy Fieri introduced on his show Diners Drive-ins and Dives, At Last Cafe is over at Long Beach, so I decided to stop by to have lunch. This is somewhat a ghetto area, and this is even harder to find than Studio Diner because this is smaller than the average size of McDonald's, but the food definitely doesn't match its appearance. Since its size roughly holds 30 people and most tables are 2 seaters, so this is a place for less than a party of four. I ordered a lamb shoulder, a brick chicken, and a bread pudding for dessert.

Lamb Shoulder

Price: moderate to high, depends on what you order the entree ranges $10 to $22, but considering this is one of the restaurants introduced by Guy Fieri, and the food have lived to its expectation, so I guess this will be a worthwhile experience for you too.

Awards & Newspaper cutouts over the year

Hours: Tues~Sat 11:30am~8:00pm
Location:

204 Orange Ave
Long Beach, CA 90802

Phone#: (562) 437-4837