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.

Isaiah Rashad

Isaiah Rashad McClainis also known as Isaiah Rashad an American hip hop recording artist, singer, songwriter and record producer from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Rashad began taking...

Paul Stanley’s Soul Station

Paul Stanley’s Soul Station with his 13 piece band doing the best of Motown & Philly Soul!

Direct

Full Time Dj. Assistant Music Director for the Hip Hop Room at Drais AfterHours. Resident at Hyde in the Belagio and Tryst In the Wynn...

ALO with The Brothers Comatose

ALO is more than a band. It’s a musical relationship that has endured for over two decades, with band members playing in numerous projects together...

Sid Vicious

Best known for keeping the dance floor packed with his crowd pleasing multi-genre music style. SID VICIOUS is guaranteed to keep the crowd begging for...

Lucinda Williams with Aaron Lee Tasjan

While she stays very much rooted in the here and now, Williams also conjures up the spirit of classic ‘70s country soul. The resulting warmth...

The 6th Annual Banding Together Fundraiser

Banding Together is a nonprofit organization that provides music therapy and instruments for youth with special needs like autism, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome. Live...

Welcome To Night Vale

Live with musical guest Erin McKeown.

Rick Ross

William Leonard Roberts II, known professionally by his stage name Rick Ross, is an American rapper and entrepreneur. In 2009, Ross founded the record label...

The Schizophonics with Taken by Canadians, The Paragraphs & Electric Mud

The Schizo-phonics are, in one word, EXPLOSIVE. Their frenzied live performances tap into the same unstoppable combination of rock ‘n’ roll energy and showmanship...

Clay Colton Band Happy Hour

The CCB is back on the big stage to put on the best show for you that we can muscle up.

Karma

Music in mind & Turntablism at heart anything goes, DJ KARMA plays and mixes his epic sets. As a genre defying artist DJ KARMA has...

Dar Williams

Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop-folk. She’s been described as one of Americas best by The New Yorker and has performed at...

Dawes

Dawes is a California indie quartet that matches Band-like rootsiness with Crosby, Stills & Nash-like vocal harmonies.

Sharps

Parq is downtown San Diego’s hottest nightclub. Parq features a 10,000 square feet main room, the largest HD LED wall on this side of the...

Lotus with El Ten Eleven

Lotus tracks bubble with contagious dance energy and blast into orbit with sing-along choruses. The tightly produced yet raw grooves recall sounds of The Talking...

Craig Smoove

DJ/Producer Craig Smoove has more than 15 years experience playing coast to coast and across the pond. He got his start DJing in Boston, where...

SOJA with The Expanders

An American Grammy-nominated reggae band based in Arlington, Virginia. SOJA Live with The Expanders.

Mike Doughty with Wheatus

The former frontman of Soul Coughing is obsessively, constantly driven to sound new. The elegant, charming album swerves between lonesome country influences, and trap beats.

Sweet & Tender Hooligans

Sweet & Tender Hooligans with El Conjunto Nueva Ola

American Wrestlers

Now based in Missouri, the Scotsman behind American Wrestlers has been on one hell of a journey. Born and raised in Glasgow, he then found...

Manufactured Superstars

The EDM duo, Manufactured Superstars, are well-regarded for their high-energy performances and NASA inspired gear. Considered both entrepreneurs and artists, members Bradley Roulier and Shawn...

Many A Moon Star Jungle The Twinfins

Many a Moon, comprised of Matthew Ray and Lucy Ray, are a brother-sister indie duo with an eclectic array of instruments and performance art antics....

Just In Case w/ Alive and Well, Hard To Hit & Hardly Human

“Just In Case” is an energetic and enthusiastic Punk Rock band hailing from Southern New Jersey. Guitarist Adam Bucciarelli and Drummer Brian Rash formed “JIC”...