NATIONAL PROPS

100 Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants in America, Gourmet Magazine, October 2007

10 Top Gastropubs, Draft Magazine, May/June 2009

50 Best Beer Restaurants, RateBeer.com, 2010

100 Best Places to Drink Beer in America, Imbibe Magazine, September 2008

Top 10 New Places For Hot Dogs, Bon Appetit Magazine, August 2009

9 Beer Innovators To Watch, Draft Magazine, Sept/Oct 2009

SPECIFICS

• Pastured and sustainably raised meats from farmers we know
• Our own house made fresh sausages and house cured meats like bacon, hams, and other charcuterie
• Making our food by hand, from scratch, including house-baked bread, house made mustard and sauerkraut, and hand spun ice cream
• Fresh produce, often organic, mostly from local independent farms
• World-class craft beers, including 3 to 5 cask-conditioned ales always on handle
• Over 40 wines by the glass and taste, and many more by the bottle, from craft producers all over the world, including the city of San Diego

Families and children always welcome.

We are open 11:30am-11:30pm every day at our new(-ish) digs on the corner of 30th St and North Park Way.

SEATING

We seat on a first come basis, which means we don't take reservations.

If you’re happiest when you can surely sit right away, we encourage you to join us on weekdays, or early in the evening on Friday and Saturday(between 5:30 and 6:30 seems best). But just come on in.

Also, we're completely open until 11:30pm 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 charge for table service (18%) for dining-in guests and do not accept additional payment.

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.

MORE PRESS

Featured in Bon Appetit magazine, "Top Tables", March 2006 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

Recent posts from our blog

where we write about our farms, food and community.

It?s Lunchtime!
posted by Jay on 01 Sep 2010

UPDATE: Lunch menu is posted here. And we’re open. Or we will be at 11:30am. Boyd is studying the menu while we speak. I’ll get the menu posted later today, but in the meantime, rest assured all your favorite sausage dishes, the burger, the BLT, our salad, the flatbread, grilled local vegetables, chips & dip, [...]

Pacific SD Takes It Easy
posted by Jay on 31 Aug 2010

Thanks to Seth Combs and Pacific SD Magazine for a nice write up about El Take It Easy and the 30th Street scene in general. Check it out here.

Seven Day Weekend at EZ
posted by Jay on 30 Aug 2010

El Take It Easy is now open every day of the week at 6pm. So you can have a Taco Shop Burger Tuesday whenever you want. Starting in a week or so, we’ll open at noon every day and serve lunch and dinner. Initial feedback on the cheeseburger is generally along the lines of [...]

They?ve created a Monstre
posted by Michael on 30 Aug 2010

Way back in 2008, when San Diego hosted the Craft Brewers Conference and World Beer Cup, we met a ton of brewers from all over the country (and world, for that matter), but for reasons that would eventually become more apparent we really hit it off with the boys from Terrapin Beer Co. in Athens, [...]

Monday night lineup
posted by Michael on 30 Aug 2010

Busy day around here. We’ve also got some new dishes going on the menu, in addition to 30th on 30th craziness. Local rocket (Suzie’s Organic Farm), goat cheese, herbs (both from Wingshadows Hacienda), olive oil (Rancho Cortes) Kettle-fried pastured rabbit (Curtis Womach) ravioli, Serrano chile (Suzie’s Organic Farm) sweet and sour sauce Local pastured chicken (Curtis [...]

The Lunchery
posted by Jay on 30 Aug 2010

Since we moved to “Central” North Park in 2008, we’ve often wondered whether there are enough businesses and residents nearby during the day to support us going into the lunch business. Over the last couple weeks, we’ve convinced ourselves that there is. We’ll see, right? So, starting on Wednesday, we’ll open at 11:30am every [...]

Stone Cask Beer and Barley-Fed Pork
posted by Jay on 30 Aug 2010

We at the Linkery have had a great friendship with Stone Brewing longer than with any other brewery in town — the night before we opened in February 2005, then-Stone-brewer Lee Chase stopped by to say hi to us and share a bunch of craft beers from different breweries, to make sure we’d have a [...]

Also tonight at EZ?
posted by Michael on 30 Aug 2010

The Edible Magazine fall issue release party! It all kicks off at 6pm. Come meet the folks who put out this wonderful magazine and enjoy happy hour prices on drafts and micheladas, as well as some free tosti-locos! Coupled with 30th on 30th, EZ should be rockin’ tonight.

A very special Monday edition of?30th on 30th
posted by Michael on 30 Aug 2010

Tonight, starting at 5:30pm, in our “North Park Meat Co.” room: $2 half pours of Green Flash 30th St. Pale Ale $2 pastured lamb barbacoa street tacos $2 pastured chicken street tacos …or mix and match! If you’re dining in at the Link, we’ve also got $2 half pours of our cask wines, red or white. And on the [...]

An EZ Dish: The Taco Shop Cheeseburger
posted by Jay on 26 Aug 2010

This dish at El Take It Easy is inspired by the places in San Diego where you can most dependably get a charred burger cooked on a flat-top, with mayonnaise that mixes in with the tomato for old-school secret sauce, and a slice of cheddar cheese. I’m not talking about In-N-Out, I’m talking about [...]

Kitchen-off
posted by Jay on 26 Aug 2010

When all was said and done yesterday, it turned out we had about 500 extra pounds of tomatoes on our hands (and that’s assuming you come in a lot this week to eat BLTs). Also, yesterday, we received 2 barley-fed pigs we had ordered a while ago, from Jesse Jutz in Minnesota via Eden Farms. They [...]

I Need You To Eat This BLT
posted by Jay on 25 Aug 2010

Remember how the weather was dreary and fogged in all the way to the middle of August, and then suddenly it got to be like 110F every day? Well, when that happens, all the sad little tomatoes shivering on their vines in Warner Springs suddenly immediately grow up, burst out in flavor and demand [...]

Making Better Food Happen Now
posted by Jay on 25 Aug 2010

Reading the bit in the aforementioned Sheepless article where he talks about how The Linkery “would love for you to open another one around the corner” really resonated with some things I’ve been pondering lately about the growth of San Diego restaurants in this recession. As background: By 2008 or so, the Linkery was fairly well [...]

Current and coming beer line-up
posted by Ethan on 25 Aug 2010

We have a pretty delicious draft and cask beer line-up right now, perfect for summer. On draft:  Ballast Point’s version of Brother Levonian Saison is on tap right now.  This beer is a tribute ale brewed in honor of a fallen friend to the San Diego beer scene.  All of the proceeeds of this beer go the family of [...]

An EZ Dish: Tostada Tentactular
posted by Jay on 25 Aug 2010

I was surprised when we opened El Take It Easy to find out how many Americans think octopus is a “weird” food. Personally, I think factory animals pumped full of hormones and antibiotics are a weird food, so I guess to each his own. Meanwhile, these octopi are harvested from the wild off [...]

Radical Shopkeeping with Sheepless.org
posted by Jay on 25 Aug 2010

I just stumbled on this month-old article from Scott Ballum at Sheepless.org (things have been a little hectic, I’m sure he told me about it and I forgot), which happens to include the Linkery, but more importantly describes what kind of neighborhood we could live in, if we choose to support the work of our [...]

Upcoming Events
posted by Jay on 24 Aug 2010

Monday, August 30th at El Take It Easy: Edible San Diego Fall Issue release party, free to all, food and drink specials, full menu available Monday, August 30th at The Linkery and El Take It Easy: 30th on 30th Thursday, September 9th at The Linkery: Pairings nite with Stone Brewing Thursday, September 9th at El Take It Easy: [...]

Get Started
posted by Jay on 24 Aug 2010

I had this dish on Friday and it is a real treat, particularly if you haven’t tasted grass-fed beef tongue recently and forgotten how delicious it is. I recommend checking it out before it’s gone. Kettle-fried grass-fed beef tongue (SOR), AleSmith X sweet & sour sauce

Public Service Announcement
posted by Jay on 24 Aug 2010

Ra Ra Riot’s new ablum (released today) is available as an MP3 download from Amazon for $3.99. I’ve been listening to it all afternoon and it’s great.

Party People
posted by Jay on 24 Aug 2010

You may know that some friends and family threw a little party this weekend (all weekend, really) in North Park, South Park and Golden Hill. Everyone had a really great time, and one of the biggest reasons was because of all the local independent businesses that chipped in, in some way, to help make [...]