Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
Josh Allen came into this Super Bowl tournament as the most capable quarterback in the 14-team field.He showed it Sunday.
Allen made top-tier plays as a passer, rusher and thinker — none better than on a late-game touchdown drive for the lead, and the Bills held for a 27-24 win against the Jaguars in Jacksonville.
The NFL is flexing its theatrical muscles in this wild-card round.
Saturday, league MVP candidate Matthew Stafford drove the Rams to a 34-31 road win after the Panthers, 10 1/2-point underdogs, took their second fourth-quarter lead. Hours later as the Bears and Packers reprised their century-plus rivalry, QB Caleb Williams’ playmaking fueled a 25-point fourth quarter in Chicago’s 31-27 homefield win.
Allen’s performance stood as the best, though, and made it six straight years Buffalo (13-5) has won a playoff game.
Start with his rushing prowess.
At 6-foot-5, 237 pounds, bullish, quick and agile, the 29-year-old stands as the NFL’s all-time leader in rushing TDs by a quarterback.
He can’t be stopped short on most sneaks. Pass-rushers detest him, knowing he can break their tackles or get off passes in a blink.
Keep this in mind: if they charge at him too fast, he’ll sidestep them.
Allen’s rushing and rushing threat bled out the Jaguars.
Where the North Florida team couldn’t stop him from bulling for two 1-yard touchdowns and several other other successful sneaks, Bills defenders stopped quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s fourth-and-2 rush at their 8.
The Jags (13-5) found Allen too adept as a passer, too. He went 28 for 35 for 273 yards without a turnover. He hit former University of San Diego tight end Dalton Kincaid for a 15-yard touchdown — one of four TDs in the game’s fourth quarter.
The decisive 66-yard drive Allen that capped with his second rushing TD, putting the Bills ahead by four points with 64 seconds left, featured one of his best career throws, a 36-yard completion to Brandin Cooks.
A San Diego County product had a good look at Allen on that first-down play.
Though he got a free run as a blitzer, Chula Vista’s Devin Lloyd had to respect Allen’s evasivenes. The Otay Ranch High School alum raised his arms without jumping, nor could he approach at max speed.
Though Cooks hadn’t run past the man covering him, Allen chose to throw the ball downfield ahead of him. The QB was able to flick it some 45 yards, despite stepping back from Lloyd and lacking leverage.
Cooks ran under it and gathered it.
Nixing the Jaguars’ comeback bid on the first snap, Bills cornerback Tre’Davious White broke up Lawrence’s accurate pass and safety Cole Bishop caught the deflection.
It was Allen’s seventh win in 13 playoff games.
For many reasons, he hasn’t reached a Super Bowl. He was frenetic in his first playoff game, a loss at Houston five years ago. He was sensational a year later, only for the Bills to collapse on defense — the infamous “13 seconds” loss to the Chiefs.
The great Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have dealt him four playoff losses, and Joe Burrow and the Bengals got him en route to the Super Bowl.
With Mahomes and Burrow absent from this postseason, it’s tempting to say the door has opened wider for Allen — but that’s too simplistic. Allen outplayed Mahomes in one playoff loss. The Bengals ran for 172 yards at snowy Buffalo.
Though this Bills’ defense remains suspect against the run and lost a good safety Sunday in Jordan Poyer, Allen looks close to peak form, notwithstanding medical checks Sunday to his throwing hand, head and a knee.
By beating the Eagles 23-19 on Sunday, the 49ers may have helped their top rivals.
The Seahawks will face a 49ers team hit hard by injury instead of drawing the healthier Rams.
Two weeks ago, the Seahawks smothered the Niners in Santa Clara, 13-3. George Kittle will sit out the rematch. An Achilles’ tendon injury has ended the All-Pro tight end’s postseason.
The Niners get an A+ for winning. Coordinator Robert Saleh’s defense allowed no second-half touchdowns.
Playcaller Kyle Shanahan’s gadget play went for a 29-yard, go-ahead TD to open the fourth quarter. Receiver Jauan Jennings threw to Christian McCaffrey after the fake suckered Reed Blankenship, a veteran safety.
The Eagles, my preseason pick to win the Super Bowl, got two interceptions from Quinyon Mitchell. But they scored just 19 points off 72 plays, a fitting end to the offense’s ugly season.
Eagles All-Pro right tackle Lane Johnson didn’t play. Defensive star Jordan Davis went down late. But the defending champs couldn’t match the Niners’ resourcefulness. A shakeup within Philly’s offensive staff seems likely.
Jesse Minter’s defense looked well-prepared early against a Pats team that averaged 28.8 points per game, second-best in the NFL.
Several Chargers players had traction problems on New England’s synthetic field.
A late first-half non-call on a Patriots blow to Justin Herbert’s head was mystifying. The Chargers stood to break a 3-3 tie with those 15 yards.
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SANDY, Utah — SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergi Solans had two goals and an assist, Diego Luna added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat San Diego FC 4-2 on Saturday night to extend its unbeaten streak to six games.
Morgan Guilavogui scored his first goal in MLS and had an assist for Real Salt Lake (5-1-1). The 28-year-old designated player has five goal contributions in his first six career games.
RSL hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat at Vancouver in the season opener.
San Diego (3-3-2) has lost three in a row and is winless in five straight.
Luna opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he re-directed a misplayed pass by Duran Ferree, San Diego’s 19-year-old goalkeeper, into the net.
Moments later, Solans headed home a perfectly-placed cross played by Luna from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box to the back post to make it 2-0. Solans, a 23-year-old forward, flicked a header from the center of the area inside the right post and past the outstretched arm of Ferree to make it 3-1 in the 37th minute.
Guilavogui slammed home a first-touch shot to give RSL a three-goal lead in the 45th.
Marcus Ingvartsen scored a goal in the 14th minute and Anders Dreyer converted from the penalty spot in the 66th for San Diego.
Ingvartsen has five goals and an assist this season and has 10 goal contributions (seven goals, three assists) in 16 career MLS appearances.
Rafael Cabral had three saves for RSL.
Ferree finished with five saves.
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When John Resnick opened Campfire on a quaint little street in Carlsbad, Calif., in 2016, some locals weren’t sure what to think. The coastal enclave wasn’t exactly awash in innovative, chef-driven establishments, so it was a shock to see the dining room consistently full. Early on, one woman wondered aloud to Resnick, “Where did all these people come from?”
It’s a moment he remembers vividly. “I was struck by her statement, because I think she was surprised that so many other people in Carlsbad were there,” Resnick says.
The rest of the culinary world would take some time to catch up to what was happening. In 2019, when Michelin expanded to rate restaurants throughout all of California—not just the San Francisco area—Addison was the only one in San Diego to earn a star. But since emerging from the pandemic, the region’s food scene has grown dramatically. Driven by outstanding farms, ingredients, a bumper crop of talented chefs, and a G.D.P. approximately the size of New Zealand or Greece, San Diego County has become one of America’s most underrated dining destinations.
Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
Perhaps no single restaurant is a better emblem for this shift than chef William Bradley’s Addison, which opened in 2006. After landing his first star, Bradley knew he wanted more. To get them, he transformed his French-leaning fare to serve what he calls California Gastronomy, which combines the cultures of SoCal with impeccable ingredients and wildly impressive techniques, prizing flavor over flair. Michelin responded, awarding Addison a second star in 2022, and making it the first Southern California three-star restaurant just a year later. The accolade has created a halo effect, attracting culinary tourists from around the world.
Berry beet tartlets at San Diego’s three-star stalwart Addison.
Eric Wolfinger
“Earning three stars forces the global dining community to pay attention to a place that may not have been on their radar before,” says chef Eric Bost, a partner in Resnick’s four Carlsbad establishments.
Resnick recruited Bost, who spent time at award-winning outposts of Restaurant Guy Savoy, to run Jeune et Jolie, which he led to a star in 2021. They’ve since taken over an old boogie-board factory down the street and converted it to an all-day restaurant and bakery, Wildland. The space also hosts an exquisite tasting-counter experience called Lilo, which was given a Michelin star mere months after opening in April 2025. And as Resnick and Bost grew their successful Carlsbad operation, chef Roberto Alcocer earned a Michelin star for his Mexican fine-dining spot Valle in nearby Oceanside.
The stylish tasting counter at Michelin one-star Lilo in Carlsbad.
Kimberly Motos
About 25 miles to the south, another affluent coastal community is going through its own culinary glow up. In La Jolla, chef Tara Monsod and the hospitality group Puffer Malarkey Collective opened the stylish French steakhouse Le Coq. Chef Erik Anderson, formerly of Michelin two-star Coi, is preparing to launch Roseacre. And last year, Per Se alums Elijah Arizmendi and Brian Hung left New York to open the elegant tasting-menu restaurant Lucien, lured by the ingredients they’d get to serve. “A major reason we chose San Diego is the quality and diversity of the produce,” Arizmendi explains. “San Diego County has more small farms than anywhere else in the U.S., and its many microclimates allow farmers to grow an incredible range of ingredients year-round.”
Wildland’s spicy Italian sandwich.
Gage Forster
Chef Travis Swikard has also been a tireless advocate for the region’s ingredients since he returned to San Diego, his hometown, and opened Mediterranean-influenced Callie in 2021. There’s no sophomore slump with his latest effort, the French Riviera–inspired Fleurette in La Jolla, where he’s serving his take on classics like leeks vinaigrette and his San Diego “Bouillabaisse” with local red sheepshead fish and spiny lobster. Its food is bright, produce-driven, and attentive in execution, while the dining room maintains a relaxed and unpretentious style of service. And Swikard sees that approach cohering into a regional style with a strong network of professionals behind it.
“It’s really nice that we are developing our own identity, not trying to be like L.A. or any other market, just highlighting what’s great about the San Diego lifestyle and ingredients,” he says. “Similar to New York, a chef community is starting to develop where chefs are supporting each other. There is a true sense of pride to be cooking here.”
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