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D.Z. Akin's Delicatessen is a New York-style Jewish deli and restaurant in San Diego, California. [1] It was opened in 1980 by Zvika and Debbie Akin. [2] They are known for their "fresser" sandwich, a Yiddish term for "one who eats." It has 16 slices of pastrami, turkey, corned beef, roast beef, and others with cheese and tomato on rye bread. [3]
The first Souplantation restaurant opened on Mission Gorge Road in San Diego, in 1978. [10] It was the idea of Dennis Jay, who was a bartender at Springfield Wagon Works, a pioneer in salad bars in El Cajon. Dennis's friends, John Turnbull and Scott King, were opening their first Soup and Salad restaurant, The Soup Exchange.
Cardini lived in San Diego, but ran one of his restaurants, Caesar's, in Tijuana, Mexico, to attract American customers seeking to circumvent the restrictions of Prohibition. His daughter, Rosa, recounted that her father invented the salad at the Tijuana restaurant when a Fourth of July rush in 1924 depleted the kitchen's supplies.
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Howard Johnson's – a restaurant chain that featured an iconic orange rooftop, reasonably priced, consistent-quality menu items; founded in 1929 by Howard Deering Johnson in Quincy, Massachusetts; at its cultural peak, it served more meals outside of the family home than any entity except for the US Army; in 1979 it had 1,040 locations, but ...
Croutons atop a salad. A crouton (/ ˈ k r uː t ɒ n /) is a piece of toasted or fried bread, normally cubed and seasoned. Croutons are used to add texture and flavor to salads [1] —notably the Caesar salad [2] — as an accompaniment to soups and stews, [1] or eaten as a snack food. [citation needed]
Boll Weevil was founded in 1966 by Fred and Lorraine Halleman. The original location was adjacent to the upscale Cotton Patch steakhouse, with the Boll Weevil name referring to a smaller restaurant spawned from a cotton patch. [1] Both were located in San Diego on Midway Drive, near Barnett Ave and Pacific Highway in Point Loma.
The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is an American registered national historic landmark, built in the early 19th century by Juan Bandini and later purchased by Albert Seeley to serve as a stagecoach hotel. In 2010, restorations and added fine dining restaurant revived the hotel to its 1870s charm ...