NATIONAL PROPS

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

10 Top Gastropubs, Draft Magazine, May/June 2009

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 late 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.

Early Valentine?s Day
posted by Jay on 08 Feb 2010

Max and crew were getting romantic today with the menu: Organic Heart Skewers: Pastured organic berkshire pork heart (Becker Lane Organics), Taza organic chocolate mole Baked Pacific oysters (Sol Azul), guanciale lardons (Becker Lane Organics), house preserved San Marzano tomatoes (Munak Farms), Grana Padano, parsley (Suzie’s Farm) Grilled 7oz grass-fed top sirloin steak (Open Space Meats), organic [...]

Let the Artists Not Starve!
posted by Che on 08 Feb 2010

Every now and then, if you’re lucky, a dining excursion turns into one of those clean, well-lighted moments. It’s like when the light falls on you through a stained-glass window?rare, and a little bit transformative. Last Friday, I got to watch a couple of guests have that experience. It’s hard to dissect, as an observer, when [...]

Syphon at Intelligentsia
posted by Juan on 05 Feb 2010

Back in June I posted on my trip up to Intelligentsia in Venice where I talked about the many wonderful qualities that makes their coffee so desirable. One of the things I talked about was their “syphon brewing”. I posted some pictures, but recently my good friend who lives up in Seattle and works for [...]

Valentines Day Deets
posted by Jay on 04 Feb 2010

Here’s how we roll on V-Day: full menu (not fixed), no reservations, everything’s the same price it always is, it’s casual, we try to make sure everyone has a good time. Neighborhood restaurant style. This year it falls on a Sunday, which means we open at 10am and stay open 13.5 hours for your Valentining [...]

Thursday Pairings: 30th Street + Fried Ice Cream Edition
posted by Jay on 04 Feb 2010

Both of our pairings tonite are tied to 30th Street. Cask-conditioned Green Flash 30th Street Pale Ale paired with Sunburst Manila Clams, kohlrabi, fennel, and pastured lamb confit Cask-conditioned Sea Monster Stout with coffee from Caffe Calabria paired with Ballast Point fried ice cream: house made Sextant Stout ice cream, almond streusel, Sea Monster Stout tempura Starting this week, we’re pricing [...]

Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl, Throw Me In Jail.
posted by Jay on 04 Feb 2010

As far as I can tell from seeing all the ads that reference “the big game”, you’re not allowed to say “Super Bowl” or the NFL licensing people will hunt you down and take all your money. Well, I’m not too flush, and I’m curious to ask some New York lawyers their opinion on Sixpoint [...]

Paso Wine Dinner, Tuesday 23 February. A Big Deal.
posted by Jay on 03 Feb 2010

We are proud and grateful to have been selected this year by the Paso Wine Country Alliance to be one of a handful San Diego restaurants to host an event for their Grand Tasting Tour this year. Our event is on Tuesday, February 23rd, from 6pm to 11:30pm. This an outstanding event and a great [...]

Wood Week: The Linkery Turns 5!
posted by Jay on 03 Feb 2010

To the amazement of many far and wide, our little cookshack turns five freaking years old this month. I can’t believe it either. But it’s true. We first served food for money on 4 February 2005, and our Grand Opening was 25 February 2005. (We always officially celebrate our anniversary as [...]

Winter Reading
posted by Jay on 03 Feb 2010

I’m grateful to note that the Linkery, and our approach to food, is featured in this month’s San Diego Magazine. The magazine is on newsstands now, though I haven’t yet seen any online links to the specific piece. Maya Kroth, the article’s writer, spent a lot of time talking to us and to Matt Rimel [...]

Sea Art
posted by Jay on 03 Feb 2010

I strongly encourage you to check out the art installation at Sea Rocket Bistro right now. I was there last nite and loved it. I don’t want to try to describe it because I don’t think I could capture it very well. My meal was outstanding, too.

30th Street on Cask, twice. And Pairings
posted by Jay on 03 Feb 2010

I just noticed that I forgot to tell you that we tapped a cask of 30th Street Pale Ale last nite. I love this beer, and not just for the name — also because it’s great. And even more amazing on cask. If we still have some left tomorrow (Thursday), we’ll include [...]

Team Tuesday
posted by Jay on 02 Feb 2010

The aforementioned dishes…I’ll let you guess which is which. And a bonus: handmade spaghetti with local broccoli cream sauce, local fennel, roasted garlic, Grana Panado, and local parsley. Vegetarian and delicious!

Baby Food
posted by Jay on 02 Feb 2010

Back in early January, Ana brought in La Rosca de Reyes for everyone, and Steph, Joel and Juan ended up with the plastic babies. Nobody choked. And nobody choked on their Día de La Candelaria duties either: * Steph made shrimp ceviche * Juan made champurrando * Joel will be making tamales (that’s the rumor [...]

Deeper Roots
posted by Jay on 01 Feb 2010

We started our charity-of-the-month program over 3 years ago, and since then you’ve donated well over $10K to dozens of different charities in town in many different areas. This year, we’re narrowing how we choose our charities a bit. I think we can increase the positive change we effect, if we focus our energy on [...]

Whats pouring?
posted by Steph on 31 Jan 2010

The beers with bubbles are as follows…. Green Flash West Coast IPA. Probably actually a double IPA, but who really counts any more? Craftsman Heavenly Hefeweizen. Creamy, citrus-y, wheat-y goodness. Anchor Bock Beer. Getting ready for spring by drinking a great seasonal brew from Anchor in SF- a dark, slightly smokey lager. The style is usually brewed to [...]

Rancho Cortes
posted by Jay on 31 Jan 2010

Today I wanted to be two places at once — at the Linkery for 30th on 30th, and in the Guadalupe Valley putting together a new olive oil blend, since we are running low on the current blend. I gather that the response for 30th on 30th was way beyond anything we expected, and we quickly [...]

30th on 30th - the visual
posted by Michael on 30 Jan 2010

Jay swiped the camera to get some cool pics of olive oil blending at Rancho Cortes (pics & post forthcoming), so my cell phone pic will have to do. Technically, our contribution to the “30th on 30th” event starts at 5:30pm, but we’re actually secretly doing it all day. Just bring it up to one [...]

30th on 30th
posted by Jay on 29 Jan 2010

Update: a few folks have been asking what time the event is, sorry for forgetting to say! It’ll be at night/dinner, which for most places here starts between 5 and 6 (for the Linkery, for example, it’s 530).. We are announcing a new monthly event this year: 30th on 30th. On the 30th of each month, a [...]

When Quality of Life Creates Quantity of Money
posted by Jay on 29 Jan 2010

This morning, thanks to the Infrastructurist, I read about Long Beach’s quest to become “The Most Bike Friendly City In America”. Financially, it’s an absolutely brilliant move by Long Beach, for 3 reasons: 1) For people deciding where in the L.A. area to live, Long Beach differentiates itself from all the other cities in the region, and [...]

What?s In The Batter?
posted by Jay on 28 Jan 2010

Local quail from Wingshadows Hacienda, tempura’d up and served with baby broccoli and pickled kohlrabi from Suzie’s Farm, citrus from Rancho Del Sol, and sweet and sour sauce. And also, lamb. I watched Max work on this for a while today, and then I tasted, and I can say it was a very good day’s [...]