The Craving: San Diego Food + Drink News – Week of August 31, 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.
Marching Church
Marching Church—the band of Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt—are set to release a new album called Telling It Like It Is. It’s out October 28...
Dead Man Winter
Furnace marks a whole lot of firsts for the accomplished songwriter. It’s his first time putting his long-running, popular string band, Trampled by Turtles, on...
The Menzingers Jeff Rosenstock Rozwell Kid
Methyl Ethel is the uninhibited alt-pop project from Perth musician Jake Webb. As an outlet for the reverb soaked home recordings Webb was working on...
SUBLIME WITH ROME
Sublime with Rome – Eric Wilson (bass), Josh Freese (drums) and Rome Ramirez (vocals/guitar) – will surely have a set list packed with the groups...
Big Thief
  Every once in a while, a band comes along that leaves expectations, cynicism, and emotional distance ruined in a heap on the floor. Brooklyn’s...
Lvl Up Palm
“Hidden Driver,” the opening track of LVL UP’s third album and Sub Pop debut Return to Love, never stops moving. What starts with unassuming guitars...
Lady Lamb
Written between her original hometown of Maine, current hometown of Brooklyn, Portugal and in a home studio in rural Sweden, where she also recorded the...
Six Organs of Admittance
Six Organs of Admittance is the project of Ben Chasny. Beginning as a solo endeavor, it now regularly features other musicians in concert and as...
Mykki Blanco Cakes Da Killa
Michael David Quattlebaum Jr., better known by the stage name Mykki Blanco, is an American rapper, performance artist, poet and activist.
FREE EVENT: Live Band Karaoke
Channel your inner rock star at our Live Band Karaoke night with Rock Out Karaoke.
Monster Energy Outbreak pres KANE BROWN-Ain’t No Stopping Us Now Tour
Kane Brown was hand-selected by Outbreak Presents and deemed their next discovery-worthy artist for 2016. Now in its fifth consecutive year, Outbreak Presents has featured...
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...
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