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.
Sinkane
Sinkane music — every note of it — comes straight out of a generosity of spirit. Never has that spirit been on more vivid display...
Hazel English
Oakland indie-pop!
Happy Hour w/ DJ Mike White
Enjoy a live DJ Set from DJ Mike White featuring Funk, Soul, Rock, ‘80s, ‘90s and today!
FREE MUSIC: Robin Henkel
Three time winner of “Best Blues” at the San Diego Music Awards Robin Henkel performs country blues with an intensity rarely seen in Southern California....
Captured! by Robots
C!BR has now returned with a newly found united aggression towards humanity (that) has been channeled into fast n loud music, designed to deafen and...
Priests Stef Chura
The album represents a major step forward for Priests. It’s the bands most stylistically diverse set of songs to date, expanding on their lo-fi post-punk...
Happy Hour w/ DJ Mike White
Enjoy a live DJ Set from DJ Mike White featuring Funk, Soul, Rock, ‘80s, ‘90s and today!
6ONE9
Live with CopyCat Killers and Relax Max. For 21 and over with I.D.
Surfer Blood
Surfer Blood are one of the best young indie-rock bands around, and their fourth album, Snowdonia, is their most ambitious effort yet. Overcoming adversity, the...
American Riffs and Rhapsodies
This concert offers our most thorough exploration of the American classical music idiom within a single program. From Henry Cowell’s evocation of colonial era hymnal...
Beyond the Score: Things our Fathers Loved
A fascinating musical biography of American composer Charles Ives, his warm relationship with his bandleader father and the transmission of a surprisingly varied and rich...
American Riffs and Rhapsodies
This concert offers our most thorough exploration of the American classical music idiom within a single program. From Henry Cowell’s evocation of colonial era hymnal...
Bernstein, Perlman, Hollywood
In this one-of-a-kind concert, the movies come to Jacobs Masterworks! The concert opens with Leonard Bernstein’s brutally vital music from the Oscar-winning masterpiece On the...
LA/NY
American cities have helped define the American character through bold, striving architecture and the resulting social impacts and inspirations. This program of music by John...
Birth of the Cool: A West Jazz Salute
  A night not to be missed! Series curator Gilbert Castellanos celebrates the music that made the “west coast sound,” paying homage to some of...
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli stands as one of the world’s most talented and most accomplished Hip Hop artists. Whether working with Mos Def as one-half of Black...
La Santa Cecilia
La Santa Cecilia started their career by serenading passersby on the embellished corners of Downtown Los Angeles’ Olvera Street. They are a musical phenomenon which...
Art of Elan
Art of Élan returns to the Chamber Music Series! The highly acclaimed classical chamber music collective presents a program of colorful works that were “made...
Our American Music: A Free Festival Concert
This exciting concert, headlined by the San Diego Symphony, features musical highlights of works that will be performed throughout the month of January as part...
Americans and Paris
American composers Aaron Copland and George Gershwin both made significant visits to France during their formative years, and some of their resulting impressions are expressed...
State Champs
State Champs with Against the Current, With Confidence, Don Broco Live.
Elephante
Elephante is the recording and performing moniker of Tim Wu, a Los Angeles-based EDM DJ/producer known for his big-room progressive house anthems and remixes of...
Tiger Army
Tiger Army with T.S.O.L. & Gamblers Mark. Live.
Sander Van Doorn
Sander van Doorn is a Dutch electronic dance music DJ, producer and label owner of DOORN Records. He has consistently ranked in DJ Mag’s Top...
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