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grew up in Seoul, Korea before attending UC San Diego and has been a San Diegan for the past seven years. His love for and impeccable taste regarding Asian food (especially Korean and Thai) brings an eastern flair to EatSD. He currently is studying to be a Marriage and Family Therapist and has a passion for spiritual and leadership development and personal wholeness. He graduated from UCSD with a BS in Biology and is currently working towards his Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy at Bethel University in San Diego. In his spare time he is a food writer, plays board games with friends, utilizes his deal-finding skills, snaps a few photos, dances hip-hop, and drenches himself in the hilarious family dysfunction of the show Modern Family. Facebook | Twitter | Google+

is a self-proclaimed coffee connoisseur and proud “foodie”. She has made consuming/writing about food and coffee her favorite pastime. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Biola University, where she wrote restaurant reviews for her school newspaper. She has brewed up frothy goodness at three different coffee shops and currently works in the communications industry. LinkedIn | Twitter

is a native San Diegan with a passion for exploring new eateries, bars, and finding new things to do in her hometown. She is the owner of ‘Bridal Stop and Events’, event planning services, as well as a blogger for ‘A HomeBrewers Wife’. She and her husband enjoy eating out and finding places with great food at a great price. Not only does she enjoy a good meal, but Cristina and her husband homebrew their own beer, hence, ‘A homebrewers wife’. Through the years she has developed a strong pallet for good beer, smooth wine, and cocktails with a kick! Follow Cristina around San Diego for the latest reviews on beer, wine, and spirits!   Facebook | Twitter

is a San Diego native, she fell in love with food and the wilderness during a season spent working in Ketchikan, Alaska. She amazes friends, family and complete strangers with an appetite which rivals that of a baby hippo. When she’s not eating, daydreaming about her next meal or researching recipes, she’s hiking, backpacking, salsa dancing, line dancing, popping bubble wrap, reading, running or opening three hundred tabs on her browser and looking for the next adventure to wreak her enthusiasm on. Email

is an OC resident. But this SD born-and-raised little woman, known as 5-Foot Frenzy or 5’ Foodie, never hesitates to travel back to her hometown to see friends and family on a monthly basis—at times biweekly. In addition to eating, blogging, and taking food photography, you can catch her flying out of state once in a while, drawing cartoon characters, dancing for Zumba, being a proud science nerd, and—like a stereotypical Filipino—singing through a karaoke mic. On a serious note, she is pursuing to be a dental hygienist to not only clean teeth, but educate her future patients to cut back on sweets, and to maintain the pearly whites in order to enjoyably bite on that juicy steak. She might be a shorty and be oftentimes shy, but she may not be timid at all once you see her voracious appetite! Facebook | Twitter

graduated from California State University San Marcos with a degree in Literature & Writing Studies. He’s a lifelong foodie, enjoys traveling, and aspires to one day live in New York City and write a book that documents the rich history of its plethora of steakhouses. When not seated at a table indulging in culinary constructions of bovine, swine or fowl flesh, he can typically be found running along Harbor Island, training for an upcoming marathon, reading, sipping on martinis, or voyeuristically lusting after the latest batch of cupcakes or doughnuts coming out of the ovens at his local neighborhood haunts. Besides having a voracious sweet tooth, he also is partial to a variety of organ meats, particularly duck liver, in spite of its recent ban. As such, it’s apropos that he worships the work and brilliance of chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (aka. the “carniwhores”) who do the most audacious, amazing things with meat at their restaurant, Animal, in Los Angeles. Facebook

was born and raised in Honolulu and moved to San Diego in 2006 by way of Syracuse, New York and Washington, D.C. James makes a career out of being a lawyer for the Navy, but his first passion is food: eating it, cooking it, looking at it, talking about it, reading about it...you get the idea. When not obsessing about food, you can find him at the movies, and working off all that food at the gym and the occasional half-marathon. He and his wife live in Rolando Village (the cutest neighborhood in San Diego that no one knows about), but will drive just about anywhere for a good meal. Facebook | Twitter

is a food writer, photographer and San Diego local. Google+ | Twitter

grew up on the "weird stuff" her restauranteur father delighted in sharing with her. Her young palate eagerly consumed raw oysters, boeuf bourguignon, and tuna maki in equal measure with applesauce and boxed mac n' cheese. She moved from San Francisco to San Diego in 2001, and has been overjoyed to observe San Diego food culture growing in leaps and bounds. Today, Lindsay is a professional game tester and freelance writer who enjoys cooking, traveling, and (of course) playing video games. She spends much of her time at craft breweries, food trucks, and hole-in-the-wall gems, and she can't wait to share these culinary adventures with you! Twitter

is a San Diego local, entrepreneur, food writer and editor of EatSD. Google+ | Facebook | Twitter

is a big fan of food and loves trying new types of foods and places. However, her favorite would have to be sitting at her parents’ kitchen table in Sacramento, lapping up her mom’s lasagna. Young has written about food, business and the business of food, among many other topics, for several local media outlets, including AOL’s La Jolla Patch, SanDiegoBargainMama.com, 944 and bizSanDiego. Young’s full-time job is at J. Walcher Communications where she oversees a number of hospitality, nonprofit, consumer product, association and sports clients. She has also worked at several of San Diego’s top public relations and marketing communications firms on a full-time and consultant basis – always eager to “test out” her food clients’ fare. (You can’t write about it, unless you’ve tried it, right?!) Young graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication and a minor in literature/writing from UC San Diego and currently serves on the executive board for the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter. LinkedIn | Twitter

Ever the fan of both eating and writing, Tarryn Mento followed her love for the latter to graduate school at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The Syracuse native now covers the San Diego food and drink culture for EatSD in her spare time as a freelance multimedia journalist, which is fairly often.