Breakfast: I'm going to be honest and up-front with you - when my kin are in town, I always try to prepare as many vegan, largely raw meals for them as possible in my own kitchen. To me, that's love, which is, I believe, truly the best that urban San Diego has to offer. That's all terribly beside the point though, innit?

I live right around the corner from Cafe Chloe and I love my flat. But, if push came to shove, I would happily live inside Cafe Chloe. People seem to love the menu. For breakfast, I'm super cool with fresh squeezed pomegranate juice and coffee, as long as I'm up in that joint feeling super French.

Big up The Mission too, for having brown rice, veggies and tofu on the menu.

Lunch: I go to local farmers markets twice a week. I go for the produce, but there's tons of prepared food as well, which really is a perfect way to eat a little something, probably something pretty unique, and entertain, show somebody around, at the same time... Wednesdays in Ocean Beach and Sundays in Hillcrest are my business. I've heard that Saturdays in Little Italy are totally official too. Check the technique: After you run the farmers market in O.B., hit the deli at People's Co-op - A top-shelf dining option in itself... But even if you're already loaded off crepes and samosas from the market, don't play yourself... run up in here and get some vegan dessert. Cross your fingers for Goddess Bars.

Dinner: El Camino in Little Italy is my junk. If you appreciate a little entertainment with your dinner, there's some real special stuff going on there. The Wednesday night jazz jam with Gilbert Castellanos is bona-fide San Diego hot shit... Grade "A" entertainment (Shout out to the Voz Alta Project in Barrio Logan... It's not a dinner option, so far as I know, but they've got a proper latin jazz jam every Thursday). I play Saturday nights at El Camino, starting during dinner. It's really a special dinning experience.

Bar: Good Ol' Bar Dynamite. I call it that for a reason. Feel me? The place is as old as dirt... but, Bar Dynamite is like home to me and a lot of good folks. I play there every Friday (Big up Greyboy - OG Friday night champ) (I see you Ratty!). The bar is comfy. The sound is cracking. It's got roots. The place is super OG and definitely something unique in the city.

I don't drink. For as much time as I spend in them, bars aren't my jawn. However, when I can take my folks who do enjoy a cocktail out to a place where they can get whatever they please, and I can get a hot maté... I'm sold. The Kava Lounge is the only place I'm familiar with in the city where you run that sort of game. Highly evolved.

I also have a deep appreciation for the Starlite. I don't drink, I'm a paranoid vegan... But the Starlite is just a fantastic place to lamp.