Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Pull your own bottle from the wine vault, then char your own favorite cut of steak, chicken
or fish on the open grills in the retro-Vegas dining room at Downtown's best bargain for
steak, salad and grill-your-own garlic bread. No bottle costs more than $36, no steak more
than $25. Fab, creative martinis and 'pin-up' art by Alberto Vargas. Tons of fun. No one
under 21 allowed.
Dick's Last Resort
PUB FOOD
dinner $12-24; 11am-1:30am)
At Dick's, a legendary indoor-outdoor bar and grill with a riotously fun atmosphere, you
can carry on in full voice while guzzling beer and chowing down on burgers, pork ribs,
fried chicken and fish, while the staff makes you a giant dunce cap out of table paper.
None of the other revelers will care a whit.
Oceanaire
SEAFOOD
5-10pm Sun-Thu, to 11pm Fri & Sat)
The look is art deco ocean liner, and the service is just as elegant, with an oyster bar and
creations like Maryland blue-crab cakes and horseradish-crusted Alaskan halibut. If you
don't feel like a total splurge, happy hour features bargain-priced oysters and fish tacos in
the bar (times vary).
East Village
Basic
PIZZA
619-531-8869;
www.barbasic.com
; 410 10th Ave; small/large pizzas from
$9/14; 11:30am-2am)
Savvy East Villagers feast on fragrant New Haven-style, thin-crust, brick-oven-baked piz-
zas under Basic's high-ceilinged roof (it's in a former warehouse). Toppings range from
the usual to the newfangled, like mashed potatoes. Wash them down with beers (craft, nat-
urally) or one of several mule cocktails.
