San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour

San Diego's craft beer scene didn't happen overnight, but it did start with a handful of people willing to experiment. In 1987, siblings Gina and Vince Marsaglia took over a small pizza joint in Solana Beach. They slept in the restaurant and a nearby U-

Christophe Rull walked away from a six-figure pastry chef job to spend two years training for one of the biggest chocolate competitions in the world. The gamble paid off: In 2021, the French-born chef was named U.S. Chocolate Master and went on to place

Fifteen years ago, Oceanside's food scene looked pretty different. Then Flying Pig Pub & Kitchen opened in a not-exactly-prime location in South Oceanside and started serving Southern-influenced food with pork chops, red beans and rice, pork belly, and

San Diego has beaches, sunshine, biotech, and enough stucco to wallpaper a small country. But what actually gives a city its personality? The artists, musicians, designers, dancers, galleries, theaters, museums, and all the other creative people making

What does a soccer team have to do with San Diego's arts scene? Quite a lot, as it turns out. When San Diego FC launched, the club could have spent its marketing budget on billboards, bus wraps, and digital ads. Instead, it went into neighborhoods, foun