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Hosted by San Diego Magazine · society · EN · 300 episodes
The weekly guide to San Diego's food + drink scene, hosted by award-winning food writer and Food Network host Troy Johnson and San Diego Magazine's culture brain, Jackie Bryant. Field notes and perspectives on restaurants, bars, and chefs—including dishes and drinks you gotta try, restaurant openings and closings, events worth your time, and laugh-cry interviews with chefs, restaurant owners, farmers, brewers, and makers who make San Diego's food + drink scene hum.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe weekly guide to San Diego's food + drink scene, hosted by award-winning food writer and Food Network host Troy Johnson and San Diego Magazine's culture brain, Jackie Bryant.
San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour is hosted by San Diego Magazine. The show has published 300 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Pizza Port Story Starts With a Hole-in-the-Wall and a U-Haul" (15 October 2026, 64 minutes), "A World-Class Pastry Chef Finds His Place in San Marcos" (9 October 2026, 58 minutes), and "San Diego's Artists Need More Than Applause" (30 September 2026, 72 minutes).
San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 65 minutes across 300 episodes.
Booking probability for San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour's contact route on record: verified email.
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San Diego Magazine hosts San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour, a society show with 300 episodes published.
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Episode #454
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...
Episode #453
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...
Episode #451
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...
Episode #450
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...
Episode #449
The wellness world has gotten a lot more complicated since the Golden Door opened its doors in 1958. Today there are powders, potions, trackers, supplements, and approximately 9,000 ways to turn a chia seed into a...
Episode #448
If you think a cookbook about pregnancy sounds like a collection of sad smoothies and recipes involving seven different kinds of seeds, Eric Wolfinger and Torie Borrelli Hall have some news for you. Their new book...
Episode #447
Brunch is a meal that exists because we decided breakfast needed a later start time and a liquor license. This week on Happy Half Hour , hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant are in Oceanside at Toasted Gastrobrunch with...
Episode #446
If you've been to a big San Diego food event and there's a whole tuna getting broken down in front of a crowd, there's a good chance Jeff Roberto is somewhere nearby. Roberto has been making sushi in San Diego for 38...
Episode #445
Glass Box isn't your typical sushi restaurant. Tucked inside the Sky Deck in Del Mar, chef and owner Ethan Yang serves omakase from inside a literal glass box—a transparent kitchen built around the idea that what you...
Episode #444
The Remy occupies a building that's been serving San Diegan's steaks for more than 50 years. Longtime locals remember it as Hungry Hunter. Today, it's been reimagined as a modern American steakhouse—one that still nods...
Episode #443
There's a new very serious skincare brand for men coming out of San Diego called... 4-Skin? Host Troy Johnson interviews founder Arturo Kassel—one of the city's top restaurateurs (Whisknladle, Catania, Gravity Heights)...
Episode #442
Behind every great cocktail is at least one terrible idea. Sometimes it's a French onion soup martini. Sometimes it's setting a drink on fire inside the Casbah. And every once in a while, it's the kind of experiment...
Episode #441
Sometimes the best restaurant is the one everyone tells you not to open. This week on Happy Half Hour , Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant sit down with chef Mario Cassineri, who left Michelin-starred kitchens behind to...
Episode #440
Fresh fruit, pillowy mochi, and a philosophy rooted in slowing down. This week on Happy Half Hour, Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant sit down with Gemma Matsuyama Yamada, the pastry chef behind Kimochi, whose seasonal...
Episode #439
Encinitas just got its first-ever speakeasy — or rather, its first hidden cocktail den — and the Happy Half Hour crew couldn't even find the front door. In this week's episode, hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant...
Episode #435
<p >The chef and owner of Luigi's shares his journey from opening a small bar above Lake Como to lines forming around the block in Golden Hill for his pies.</p> <p >At 23, Luigi Agostini left his hometown of Varese...
Episode #435
<p >The border is a huge part of why San Diego's food culture took off. The kitchen exchange of chefs and ideas and burning wood and seafood acid parties across San Ysidro built a Mexican-American style that's unlike...
Episode #434
<p >Leucadia's charm is in no small part because someone planted eucalyptus trees for railroad ties, but that wood turned out to be useless. So they just let those peely giants grow and grow, which is why the Leucadia...
Episode #433
<p >On this episode of Happy Half Hour, Relic Bakery owners Samantha Bird and Derek Hadden pulled up with a selection of their best fare including Crunchwrap Supreme croissants, paté en croûte, an XO sausage wrapped in...
Episode #432
<p >The Blink-182 muse who grew up feeding Kelly Slater and Rob Machado at his mom's North Shore Hawaii house debuts Breakers Cafe, Bar & Grill</p> <p >Benji Weatherley walked into San Diego Magazine and immediately...
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