The Craving: San Diego Food + Drink – Week of May 18, 2026

The Craving is ThereSanDiego's weekly guide to what's worth eating and drinking in San Diego right now. Every Tuesday, we surface new restaurant openings, standout happy hours, limited-time menu specials, and upcoming food events across the city - so you know what's happening before everyone else does.
All Them Witches
All Them Witches are an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of drummer Robby Staebler, vocalist, bassist, and guitarist Charlie Michael Parks,...
The Wedding Present
The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group originally formed in 1985 in Leeds, England, from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band’s...
Blossoms
Blossoms are an English indie pop band from Stockport, Greater Manchester. Formed in 2013, the band consists of Tom Ogden (lead vocals, guitar), Charlie Salt...
Coheed and Cambria – Neverender GAIBSIV with The Dear Hunter
Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York, formed in 1995. The band consists of Claudio Sanchez (lead vocals, guitar,...
Local Natives
Local Natives (previously known as Cavil at Rest) is an American indie rock band based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, United States. Their debut...
Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing...
Power Trip, Destruction Unit & Mizery
Power Trip slay us with the first new single “Firing Squad” from their anxiously awaited sophomore release Nightmare Logic, which finally sees light February 24...
The Wind and The Wave
Dwight A. Baker and Patricia Lynn, The Wind and The Wave (Stylized as The Wind + The Wave) respectively, played their first show opening for...
Clean Bandit
Clean Bandit are a British electronic music group formed in Cambridge, England in 2008. The band consists of Grace Chatto, Jack Patterson and Luke Patterson....
River Whyless
On River Whyless’ masterful second album, We All The Light, four ego-less musicians blend their talents on violin, guitars, drums, harmonium, cello, banjo, toy piano...
Old 97’s
The Old 97’s are an alternative country band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1993,[2] they have since released ten studio albums, two full extended plays,...
Nashville Pussy, Zeke, and Spitfire Torpedo
Ruyter Suys is the lead guitar player of the band Nashville Pussy, and Blaine Cartwright’s wife. Suys spent her youth in Vancouver, in a musical...
Electric Six
Mortality. It’s the primary reason we don’t live forever. If not for our mortality, the number of years each of us would have to roam...
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (often abbreviated CYHSY) is an American indie rock group based in Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band, whose...
Fu Manchu
The Action is Go is the fourth studio album by California stoner rock group Fu Manchu. It features new drummer Brant Bjork (Kyuss) and new...
Cold War Kids are Coming to The Observatory North Park!
We love these guys. The Cold War Kids are coming to The Observatory North Park Friday, January 27th for a night of Firsts, Miracle Miles...
Slothrust
With their long-awaited third album Everyone Else, Slothrust deliver ten riveting anthems that reward repeated listens. The songs grab the ear and pierce the psyche...
Electric Guest
Electric Guest is a Los Angeles-based band formed in 2011. The group comprises Asa Taccone and Matthew “Cornbread” Compton. Brothers Todd and Tory Dahlhoff play...
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest is an English poet, spoken-word artist and playwright. In 2013 she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients. In...
Andy Shauf
Andy Shauf is a storyteller, a singer of heartbreak and regrets, isolation and loneliness, reflecting his prairie surroundings in Regina, Canada. Meticulously written over four...
Big Sandy and His Flyrite Boys, Wayne “The Train” Hancock
Big Sandy is back! Back in the USA, that is. After having spent the better part of the last several months performing on festival stages...
POS
Stefon Alexander, better known by his stage name P.O.S, is an underground hip hop artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a founding member of the...
Bash & Pop
When The Replacements ended their 33-show reunion tour in June 2015, founding bassist Tommy Stinson walked away with his head held high. Armed with a...
Blackalicious
“We’re older, we’re wiser, we’re more mature,” MC Gift of Gab (nee Timothy Parker) says of Imani, Vol. 1, Blackalicious’ first new album in a...
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