We had a nice dinner tonight at The Linkery in San Diego, which has a locally-oriented menu.  Their menu goes to great lengths to describe the origin of each ingredient, so it takes a long time to figure out what you want to eat.  But by the time you do, you know the name of the farm that grew the greens and the variety of pomegranate and the breed of pig that went into the making of your bacon.  They’re meat centric, which is unusual for that kind of place, but I had a great sea bass entree.

Best of all, we were there with our kids and the kindly staff took them in stride.

I especially appreciated the coffee menu, which described the origin and roast of each of their offerings.  It’s a pet peeve of mine to see descriptions such as “Vienna roast” and “hazelnut” and “Columbian” and “shade grown” listed in succession; they’re all different variables and you could easily have a Vienna roasted hazelnut flavored (yuk) shade grown Columbian coffee.  The Linkery got it right and I ended my meal with a great apple pie and coffee from a Sr. Juan Leon.

Very hip of them, they also have a blog, with a useful entry on their categories of meat.