Description: The continuing adventures of one hungry boy in a big city
As we get older we often yearn for the simpler days of our youth. Those comforts that bring us right back to our childhood. Things like board games, playing outside til it gets dark or getting the day off from school to go testify in divorce court with your parents. We all treasure these memories. Food can often be great for memory association. I don’t think there’s a kid alive that doesn’t love tater tots. Those crispy little nuggets of carb-y goodness fried in sunshine. And if your kid doesn’t lov
I would love to tell you that my need to explore new American urban cuisine in a trendy area of San Diego led me to Empire House but let’s be honest, I’m here for the tots. Do I look like Giles Coren to you?! (I wish, what a cutie.) Empire House specializes in comfort food with a new urban edge. Kinda like when that first vaguely ethnic family moved into your neighborhood and brought some bomb ass covered dish to the block party that was amazing, wasn’t drowning in mayonnaise and had actual flavor. Yo
The menu at Empire house offers a wide variety of dishes from burgers, sandwiches and hot dogs (which they call Haute Dogs. I died!) to salads and “Tot Pots”, which was exactly why my fat ass is here appealing to my sense of child-like culinary wonderment. My friends and I ordered a large cross section of the menu. “HIGHLIGHTS!”*