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Mr Pho

4750 Oceanside Blvd
Oceanside, CA
(760) 940-1306
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September 19, 2009

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Healthy, cheap, great, different

We order here over and over. Mainly we order Vietnamese soup., which is perfectly made with lots of meat and vegetables. It is huge, so it is a meal for sure.

Only one guy that answers the phone understands well…but that one guy has the job of answering the phone. All part of the fun. I keep my order simple. Two number 1.

Food is always ready for pickup.

This place is amazing so do yourself a favor and try it. Especially if you live in the area.

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5 types of meat and many vegetables and herbs. I have to use an additional bowl at home to manage it all.

Look out, that red plum sauce is HOT. Do not mistake it for the sweet kind.

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February 7, 2009

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The idea is great, the meat is terrible

I like churrascos. I used to like this one. We ate there today and every meat was poorly cooked or poorly cut. Loaded with fat. Chick with american cheeze stuck on it. Hard, over-cooked meat. There is a fantasy that this experience is wonderful. In reality, Chef Ramsy would tell them the truth. Disgusting.

Much of the salad bar is good, but 30 to 40 dollars for a salad bar is not practical.

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September 23, 2009

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Terrible food and so-so service.

The worse chef’s salad I have had. They gummed together the meats with what tasted like artificial american cheeze. I could not even separate the cheap meat from the inedible cheeze. This was served on some ornimental bitter leaves instead of just a simple edible salad. The idea of chefs salad is you mix the parts you want and get many flavors in your mouth. Huge uncut lettuce pieces. If you can stomach this, it will take two hands and tools to work with it. No clue how to make food here.

I added a side of pasta. Just imagine the cheapest sauce from the 99 cent store and the cheapest noodles you can find, poorly cooked. I do not think I have made worse pasta in my life.

The hostess knew nothing about the beers they serve. After tasting one flat tap beer I ordered another import, flar, flavorless, like imported flat light bud.

Some guy there asked, “how is everything?”, I said “You do not want to ask.” He walked away. I guess they really do not want to ask. I think if you drink and smoke enough to not taste the food, you can watch a game here or something.

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Chef Salad

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Gummy Fake Amerian cheeze stuck to everything so it was impossible to eat.

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Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens

1999 W Citracado Pky
Escondido, CA
(760) 294-4999
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September 1, 2008

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Food is disapointing

For years I have come for the great fresh beer and best beer tour in town.

The food… over-designed and just not good.

Very dry overcooke buffalo burgers today. Tossed the oversized white flour chabata bread and ate part of teh burger. Complex but not great house salad.

We know a major north county company that held events here and we were warned the food was weird to bad, but we wanted to check it out ourselves.

I hope they get back to taste and texture instead of this attempt to impress with unusual choices.

I like the Stone company. I will try it again.

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Oaked Arrogant Bastard and Avery IPA. This place is great for beer.

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Carlsbad Brewery-Pizza Port

571 Carlsbad Village Dr
Carlsbad, CA
(760) 720-7007
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September 30, 2008

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Beer good, Food fattening, overall not well run

They have a great selection of beer. They have little information about the beer. Sometimes it is a difficult wait to get beer. Overall, really great place for good beer.

The food is all Pizza and a couple salads. Not great for regular fare if you want your heart to keep pumping, but great for a visit.

I had the Ceaser Salad with extra meat. Great deal, loads of chicken.

Some things are weird, like the paper plates are all stuck together and the doors are wide open to welcome flies.

If I were going to add something to the menu, it would be to let me put cooked pizza toppings on a salad. Salad with muchrooms, hamburger and tomatoe please.

Self Service. Order food here. Order drinks here when you find counter space. Pick up food here if you find room to stand.

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Chicken Caesar Salad

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Very generous chicken portion when ordered with extra meat. If you want a healthy choice at this location, this would be it.

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Love Boat Sushi

125 Old Grove Rd, #5
Oceanside, CA
(760) 721-3737

October 1, 2008

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So great I do not want to recommend it.

This place is sort of small, so please leave room for me!

It is so great it is hard to describe. It is fun thanks to a great DJ. The food is fun. The service is great.

I spent a bit on one of the pricier “boats” but it was so worth it.

If you want to be sure to get in, make a reservation, or just show up, what the heck.

Great place to bring a date.

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Love Boat for 2-3

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Great mix of sushi, tempura, shashimi, CA roll, Tuna roll, steak and chicken teriaki. Miso Soup.

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El Asador

4750 Oceanside Blvd
Oceanside, CA
(760) 758-9672

January 22, 2009

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Not worth a drive. Low Quality.

This is local and we go here every year or two. Much of the food we get here goes to the trash. I have had a carne asada burrito with rock hard unripe avacado, fancier dishes loaded with beans and dull sauces. This is not Mexican cuisine. Today I wanted a carne asada burrito and I was imagining what you usually get at any other location. No surprises. It is a lot of dried out beef. They dumped what was left on the grill in a shell.

Oh, and free salsa.

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Carne Asada Burrito

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Dried out. All beef and no avacado to balance. The worse carne asada in the world.

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