Good times at the Linkery

Named one of the 100 Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants in America, Gourmet Magazine, October 2007

We're Moving!

Our last day at our current location will be Sunday, 18 May. Later that week we will re-open on the corner of 30th St and North Park Way.

WELCOME

The Linkery is a neighborhood restaurant in North Park, San Diego, California. We get to know the people who grow and make the best food and drink in the world, and share it with our community. We feature:

We are open every day, from 5pm to 11pm (at least).

MORE PRESS

Featured in Bon Appetit magazine, "Top Tables", March 2006 (link) as "a good example of San Diego's growing number of ingredient-driven restaurants." Also, "sausage rules here" and the entrees "do the city's Mexican food scene proud." (to explain: our cuisine is global including Latin American influences).

"If knowing that your Hampshire or Berkshire breed pigs are pastured makes chowing down on handcrafted sausages a guiltless pleasure, The Linkery is the place to indulge. The folks behind this unique, casual spot believe in 'meeting your meal.'" - Gourmet magazine, "America's Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants", October 2007

Named Best New Restaurant, SDCityBeat magazine 2005

"One-of-a-kind...the homemade sausages are superlative, to say the least" - David Nelson, San Diego Magazine September 2007

"Very Good" (3 stars), Naomi Wise, San Diego Reader

"An excellent menu of unusual fare served in one of the coolest-looking dining rooms in San Diego" - Joshua Sibelman, SDCityBeat magazine

City's Best (best burger 2005, 2006; best hot dog 2006) , AOL CityGuide San Diego

"The top of my list for favorite and most original neighborhood restaurants" - Frank Sabatini, Jr., GLT

"Something more than just a pleasure" - Peter Syravong, Curiculum magazine, Summer 2007

"This bistro oozes cool imagination....You'll wish you lived in this neighborhood" - 944 magazine, November 2005

"The best sausage in town -- this we know. In fact, the sausage taco in a corn tortilla with mustard japaleno aioli could go head to head with any fish taco out there. But little did this cool North Park bistro know that its thoughtful ode to vegetarians would steal the sausage thunder for which it has become known." - Riviera magazine, August 2006

SEATING

We seat on a first come basis, which means we don't take reservations. We've got a pretty small restaurant, and sometimes it fills up.

If you’re happiest when you can surely sit right away, we encourage you to join us early in the evening (between 5 and 6:30 seems best). Otherwise come on in and if there’s a wait for a table, enjoy a drink or two at the bar.

Also, we're open until 11pm every night, and we welcome guests who join us toward the end of the evening.

Whenever you come to visit us, we'll take care of you the best we can.

THE LINKERY IS A "NO TIPPING" RESTAURANT

We do not accept tips.

We address the costs of providing table service by charging for it. Bar and table service is charged on the bill for dining-in guests at 18%.

We find this appropriate for professionals in every industry, including hospitality.

For guests that would like to show extra gratitude, you can leave cash behind for our charity of the month.

For further information about our "tip-free" policy, click here.

Latest entries from our Blog

Salad Days
posted by Jay on 15 May 2008

OK, with four days left on the 30th & Upas clock, here’s what’s ticking: * Today is Blair’s birthday and Max’s birthday. We’ve got scallop ceviche for Blair’s birthday. For Max’s birthday, Max gets…to make food for Blair. (It’s an annual tradition by now.) * Lots of salad. We have a ton of fantastic [...]

mexi dogs are back, and we?re out.
posted by Steph on 14 May 2008

Heads up to all who have missed out first round, we’re serving the Mexidogs tonight! Also, Chelsea and I are working our last shifts at 3382 30th St.- we’re going to Pittsburgh! Yep, Steph is going to the Midwest. We have both had so much fun serving you all here.   Thanks for making work good [...]

The Final Countdown
posted by Jay on 12 May 2008

This went out as an email… Hi Friends – This is it! The Linkery will exist at 30th and Upas for only seven more days. Our last day will be Sunday (May 18th), after that we’re closing the doors here and moving up the street to our new location at the corner of 30th [...]

We are open Mothers Day?
posted by Jay on 11 May 2008

…and not for brunch. All mothers in the world are happier that we maintain our usual Sunday sleeping in habits. But, yes, from 5pm to 11pm, we are bringing the goods. We think it should be manageable, ’cause in our experience “busiest restuarant day of the year” happens all before 2pm. ‘Though who knows, [...]

100% pastured chili dog
posted by Steph on 09 May 2008

Starting tonight we are serving pastured chili dogs.  A house made hot-dog with pinquito beans and house made chili, topped with 5 year cheddar cheese and chopped onions. Drafts tonight are Hop Head Red, for which Green Flash recently took home a gold metal at the World Beer Cup and Rare Vos, Ommegang’s Belgian amber ale. Cask [...]

Braise and Merguez
posted by Jay on 09 May 2008

Back to the present: Max & Michael made a dish of Braise and Merguez, which is pastured spring lamb from Christine and Jim Maguire, part of it braised and part of it made into a Merguez sausage. I had this dish last nite and loved it, and I know we have a lot of [...]

Movin on up?the street
posted by Jay on 09 May 2008

Well, it looks like many months worth of behind-the-scenes effort is starting to take the physical form of a new Linkery restaurant on the corner of 30th and North Park Way. We anticipate that on Sunday 18 May, the Linkery will celebrate its last day at 30th and Upas, and re-open later that week [...]

Barely Blogging
posted by Jay on 07 May 2008

Some things I keep meaning to write in a little depth about, but seem to always run out of time, so I’ll mention them in no depth at all: * BarCamp, to which I was introduced Saturday by Jed Sundwall. Really inspiring, thanks all. Sorry about the goofy suits, we were on our way [...]

Quick Menu Notes
posted by Jay on 07 May 2008

* Mexi-dog is sold out. Michael and Max are talking about making all-pastured chili dogs next week, so there. * House made country ham is on the menu, I believe through Wednesday nite only (you can always call or email before you come in to see if something is available, if your heart is set on [...]

Ready, Set, Dog
posted by Jay on 02 May 2008

All-Pastured Super Mexi-Dogs hit the grill in 10 minutes (Friday at 5pm). People have been stopping me on the street to ask.

ARTS: A Reason To Survive
posted by Lisa on 01 May 2008

Happy May 1st! This month The Linkery is more than happy to support ARTS: A Reason To Survive as this month’s charity. ARTS believes that the creative process of the arts is therapeutic. They provide a safe, nurturing and fun environment where kids work with positive adult mentors in visual, performing and literary art mediums. Artists, musicians, poets [...]

Street Cart Plus
posted by Jay on 30 Apr 2008

All-Pastured Super Mexi-Dog is here, too. Actually, it will be here on Friday. Bacon-wrapped hot dogs, a la the street carts of Tijuana, are a favorite of ours, but — and I know some folks disagree with this for street food — we like it when it’s made from artisanal ingredients, preferably which [...]

Spring Lamb Has Sprung
posted by Jay on 30 Apr 2008

Pastured spring lamb is here! These are from Christine and Jim Maguire at Rinconada Dairy — makers of the artisanal cheese Pozo Tomme — in the Central Coast (outside of Paso Robles). Dairy lambs give birth every winter, and young lamb is thus a traditional Spring dish. As of tonite we have grilled lamb [...]

Eating Rocks
posted by Jay on 26 Apr 2008

In which Doug and I debate Farmageddon while revealing potentially mockable tastes in periodicals and music. from doug@eats.it to jay@thelinkery.com date Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:35 PM subject the economist on food prices A story you might find interesting. The Economist’s take on the macro world food situation: http://www.economist.com/opinion/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=11050146 from jay@thelinkery.com, to doug@eats.it date Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:50 [...]

Encore! Encore!
posted by Michael on 25 Apr 2008

For those of you that didn’t make it in to your favorite haunts last week during the Craft Brewers Conference and World Beer Cup, or maybe it was too crowded for you to get in the front door (Hamilton’s?), we managed to hold back some of the flavors of the week for y’all to try. [...]

The Coming Zeitgeist
posted by Jay on 24 Apr 2008

We really don’t need to truck much food in at all. (Pretty amazing to think that midcentury, personal gardens provided 40% of Americans’ food). Seems to me that the Linkery or any community restaurant could be a vessel through which our community feeds itself from our own gardens.

I like to outsource actual research and calculations
posted by Jay on 24 Apr 2008

When I blithely assert that industrial farming creates the perception that food is cheaper than it really is, via direct government subsidies and through the externalization of costs including environmental and health damage, this is what I’m referring to. One suspects that the exact numbers are open to argument, because indirect cost calculations always are. [...]

Bottle Expansion
posted by Jay on 23 Apr 2008

Lost in the World Beer Cup madness has been the fact that we’ve also been working on expanding the breadth and depth of our wine list. It’s an ongoing process, of course, but we think we’ve made some good progress. You can decide for yourself by viewing our bottle list (for both wine [...]

?Complete Burger? Is Now Completely Grass-fed
posted by Jay on 23 Apr 2008

We’ve been working for quite a while to develop a source of local or regional grassfed beef from which we could make our burger. A couple times we thought we were getting close, only to encounter setbacks which we haven’t yet overcome. In the meantime, it’s been weighing on us that developing viable alternatives to [...]

Unique beers on tap tonight. . .
posted by Michael on 21 Apr 2008

Arnie Johnson, friend of The Linkery, brewmaster of Marin Brewing Company in the bay area, and recent medalist at the 2008 World Beer Cup, was kind enough to hook us up with a keg of his ESB before he left town. Arnie won a silver and two bronzes at this year’s awards. He’s [...]

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5pm to 11pm or later

3382 30th St
in North Park
San Diego CA USA

619 255 8778

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