Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
I attended Doechii’s concert at Gallagher Square on November 5th. Let’s say that if people think she’s truly an industry plant, then the industry needs to produce more artists like Doechii. The industry needs to enter more swamps because the Swamp Princess was putting on a show, from rapping to singing, in a theater or a play. I know SDSU was right around the corner, but many people received their degrees at Doechii University that night.
The crowd was decked out in green, and not that pretty green like emeralds; it was the swampy green of the swamp, as we all waited for the Tampa Bay legend to grace our presence.
The night started with Doechii’s black and white visuals flickering across the screens, and then the spotlight hit her like Goku going Super Saiyan for the first time.
She began with “STANKA POOH,” with a behemoth record player and massive boombox speakers. “Childhood” memories are one thing; complete pandemonium is another.
A girl standing right next to me was yelling, ‘School is in session!’ and that we didn’t come to class with our homework!’
“I loved how every song was like a lesson,” another fan later reminded me. “Like, I was studying for the Swamp Princess midterm. And I was low-key taking notes!”
“And to be real with you,” she was absolutely right. Every song was like every chapter. Doechii had us learning, appreciating, and even taking emotional lessons.
The moment she started spitting the rhymes, her flow was banging on my chest like bass therapy. She’s rhyming with the fervor of someone who is not about to squander any syllables.
One girl behind me screamed. “Her breath control was making me nervous. Watching her breathe was exhausting me. I need to get myself a gym membership.”
“Her stage presence is disrespectful,” another fan told me. “It’s like, what right do you have to be that talented at rap and performing?”
Facts. She changed seamlessly between rap and singing as if she had an entire team of songwriters in her head.

Everything that has happened this year has been thanks to her pressure. “Anxiety” and “Denial is a River” dominated the streets and the charts.
Then she won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album with “Alligator Bites Never Heal” and was nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best New Artist.
A new player in the rap game taking home the championship right away is ridiculous. It is the same as if the player were drafted and won the MVP in their first year.
One fan had the perfect quote to offer about this: “Female rappers are always raising the bar, but Doechii is in the gym breaking the equipment.”
Miss Milan magnified that energy as if her sole task was to confirm that DJing is a combat sport.

When she dropped her rap “NISSAN ALTIMA,” the audience went absolutely mad. She was rhyming so quickly that she was pulled over for speeding.
A girl standing beside me cried out, “No one should be rapping this fast without a liability waiver. I need asthma meds!”
Even those who didn’t know the words to the song are dancing as if they had qualified for the final round in “So You Think You Can Dance” Swamp Edition.
“Strangers became strangers and started dancing with each other like club bathroom ‘you’re so pretty’ energy. Beautiful.”
The show took a turn as the stage turned blood red, and she sang her rock rendition of “Anxiety.” It was like therapy for people who don’t believe in therapy. She followed it up with “DEATH ROLL”, which she revealed to be one of her most ‘vulnerable’, and then “BOOM BAP,” dropped, and the crowd went crazy.
She paused during her set to say:
“Thank you so much for defending me online from the trolls, the haters, and the bigots.”
The crowd erupted as the pride flags waved through the air. Love was insane. A girl in front exclaimed, “I’m fighting people for you like you pay my rent!”
When the music video “DENIAL IS A RIVER” appeared, people just lost it. It was as if Beyoncé herself had come out. Cell phones weren’t even in sight. People were actually living in the moment. Yeah, right.
Constructed like a therapeutic conversation, the song had girls laughing, crying, and texting their therapist all at the same time.
During “WAIT”, she told everyone to hold hands, even strangers.
One girl grabbed my arm, like, “We linked up. I don’t care if we just met.”

She stepped out from the stage, and the screeching began.
“Encore”
“Do not play with us!”
She returned with the question,
“What do y’all want to hear?”
The crowd replied,
“Yucky!”
She brought us “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake,” the original banger that was many people’s introduction to her Oh The Places You’ll Go EP.
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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.”
Top: In La Jolla, Lucien serves ocean whitefish with tomatoes turned into concasse, sabayon, and other expressions.
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