Featured in Jonathan Gold's "The Best of New World Mexican", Sunset Magazine, March 2012

Manhattan Mondays: $6 Manhattans * Taco Tuesdays $3 fancy tacos in house made tortilla
Wednesdays 3-course vegetarian $20 * $1 oyster Thursdays * El Make It Funky Fridays * Sunday carnitas

Upcoming Events

Chef Max’s Ballast Point and Local Shellfish Dinner, Thursday May 24

On Thursday, May 24, Chef Max presents pairings of Ballast Point beers with local shellfish (and other local seafood). Here’s the menu, each pairing …

Dinner With The Bruery, Thursday May 3rd

This coming Thursday we’re hosting the folks from the Bruery in Orange County, California. while we celebrate their 4th Anniversary. Max has created some …

Baja Chefs Series, 14 May: Benito y Solange

We’re proud to continue our Baja Chefs Dinner Series with our good friends, Chefs Benito Molina and Solange Muris of Restaurante Manzanilla in downtown Ensenada. …

Easter Barbacoa

This Sunday, in addition to our usual carnitas special, we will be offering barbacoa of local pastured goat from Taj farms. Includes fixins and house …

Chef’s Tasting Menu with Alesmith, Thursday 22 March

This Thursday nite Max is offering a tasting menu with each course paired with Alesmith beers. Each course is $11 including the food and …

Baja Chef’s Series: April 16 with Diego Hernandez

On the heels of Monday’s joyous pop-up with Javier Plascencia, we are grateful to announce that the next Baja chef to join us will be …

Pop Up Plascencia

Thanks to everyone who joined us for last nite’s dinner with Chef Javier Plascencia. Thanks also to Chef Plascencia and his magnificent team. …

30th on 29th

The 30th of every month is 30th on 30th, when the restos and bars here offer drinks and finger-food-ish specials fit for a crawl. …

Javier Plascencia Popup, Monday 5 March

Update: Reservations for this event are full! We will take a handful of walk-ins for tables that open up from 10:15 to 11:30, on …

Rare Drinks Chef’s Dinner, February 27th

On Monday, February 27th, Max is preparing a chef’s dinner featuring food pairings with rare and allocated beverages. Seating is limited to 50 …

V-Day At EZ

We are accepting reservations for Valentine’s Day. Among the special offerings we’ll be putting together for you are: * The Strawberry Squeeze cocktail, with local …

It’s Farm Week!

We don’t do Restaurant Week, we do Farm Week. Through Friday we’re featuring a prix-fixe meal that showcases food from local farms, for $20. …

VEGANIZED #2 hosted by Acamonchi, Wed 11 Jan

Once a month, our vegetarian fixed-price dinner (three course, twenty bucks, featuring Suzie’s Farm produce) goes vegan, with a party hosted by one of …

Bacon Bingo Encore: Wed Dec 21

At the beginning of 2011, we brought you the year’s greatest innovation in free meat-based parlor games: Bacon Bingo. Now that it’s the …

Get Your POTUS On: Tues 20 Dec

Do it for America. SD CityBeat’s intrepid Dave Maass learned that, in order to appear as a Presidential candidate (as in, the President of the …

Eggnog Made EZ: Mon 19 Dec

I’m an idea man Chuck, I get ideas, sometimes I get so many ideas that I can’t even fight them off…What if you …

Every Wednesday: Suzie’s Farm Vegetarian Three-Course for $20

3 courses, 20 bucks. Vegetarian, featuring produce from Suzie’s Farm. 9 November 2011 * Beet soup, crème fraîche, dill ** Hand made tagliatelle, pea tendrils, heirloom peppers, goat …

Thursdays: $1 Oysters, $2.95 Oyster Shooters

The name says it all. Fresh oysters, straight outta Baja. A buck each every Thursday, or we’ll add booze and make a shooter for $2.95.

30th on 30th

The 30th of every month is 30th on 30th, when the restos and bars here offer drinks and finger-food-ish specials fit for a crawl. …

Manhattan Monday

Every Monday. Vintage Jazz on vinyl from the collection Lower East Side native Wes Hudson. Special pricing on Manhattans. Join us. …