Success!  For two months I’ve been searching for an authentic East Coast pizza here in San Diego. What I consumed in the process was edible (if such a word can be used for mediocre food) but not delicious.

BASIC urban kitchen + bar to the rescue!  I first learned about this downtown pizzeria via the blog happy lady eats, whose writer is a fellow East Coast transplant now living in San Diego (she’s also the brilliant mind behind Oh Joy!). So today I figured, since I was near the downtown area anyway, I should just stop by, pick up a pizza and bring it home for dinner.

I walked out of the restaurant with this:

I arrived in my apartment with this:

Where did all that lovely pizza go, you ask? Well, I got in the car with the box of fresh pizza and the smell was just too intoxicating to resist. It certainly wouldn’t be bad to eat just one little piece, would it? Of course not! Needless to say, one turned into two and two turned into four or five. So I ended up at home with half a pizza and a belly full of deliciousness.

BASIC urban kitchen + bar
410 Tenth Avenue (corner of 10th Ave and J St.)
San Diego
barbasic.com