A Fresher Menu

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WE’RE DINING EARLIER than usual this year. And we owe it to a reader from Phoenix. He emailed the editors last year with a capital idea: Instead of running our annual “Best Restaurants” issue in August, when summer’s winding down, why not run it in June, when summer’s coming on? That way, we’d not only give the locals a chance to explore our new and exciting dining scene in summertime, we’d be doing a service for the tens of thousands of visitors who descend on San Diego each summer. Tourists have to eat, too.

So here you have it. As usual, we bring you the results of our annual readers’ poll. We give you David Nelson’s 2008 Critic’s Picks. And we offer, for the first time, the Editor’s Picks. This, the editor-in-chief figures, may win him a couple of dozen restaurateur friends, while losing him . . . Let’s not think about it.

Of course, we bring you more than just lists of restaurants. Our dining coverage expands this month to include Nelson’s takes on your choices for the three best new restaurants in town and three old stalwarts of the San Diego dining scene. Critic Robin Kleven Dishon dishes up a mouth-watering list of the area’s better hamburger havens——from old-faithful Hodad’s to the newbie Burger Lounge. Americans eat an average of 156 burgers a year; we need to know where to find them.

All that eating can take its toll on the waistline, so we suggest you get out there and exercise, too. Or at least watch some professionals get their exercise. San Diego is all about the U.S. Open this June——and the best of the best golfers who’ll be competing at Torrey Pines South. And so, for the tens of thousands of golf fans, locals and visitors, we bring you our special Guide to the U.S. Open. Included are a handful of stories by sports scribe Tom Cushman that distill the essence of what makes San Diego one of the world’s foremost golf meccas.

Also on our plate this month: Contributing writer Bob Rowland writes about the specter of suicide that hangs over the magnificent San Diego–Coronado Bay Bridge; fitness guru Jorge Cruise tells us how to stay in shape and still eat fast food; Rowena Kelley brings us a new edition of our design magazine, San Diego At Home; and Ron Donoho follows the money flowing to lawyers in the San Diego City Council pension scandal.

It’s a pretty full menu. Dig in.

TOM BLAIR
Editor-in-Chief

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