This will only be of interest to those attending the Comic-Con International in San Diego…
Up until a few years ago, a favored place for lunch or dinner was the Old Spaghetti Factory, located at 5th and K Streets, an easy walk from the convention center. The wait for a table was sometimes long but if and when you could get in, you could get a pretty decent plate o' pasta for not much money. It was one of the easiest, cheapest places to grab a meal, especially if you had kids with you.
So many were heartbroken when the place tuned into Dussini's Mediterranean Bistro, serving a more upscale, expensive Italian menu in fancier surroundings. Everyone I know who went there felt it wasn't as good and it certainly wasn't as easy on the wallet. Ergo, they should be happy to see on this website that the proprietors have kept the Dussini bar area but turned the rest of the building back into an Old Spaghetti Factory. And like the Comic-Con, the Old Spaghetti Factory is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year.
In other San Diego Restaurant News: A lot of us were saddened when before last year's con, the down 'n' funky Kansas City Barbecue Company was closed by a fire. Well, it's back, too. They reopened for business last November. Assuming they haven't ruined it in reconstruction, it serves pretty good 'Q, especially the chicken sandwich. And if I had any brains, I wouldn't be posting this because now you'll all be there ahead of me, waiting for a table.