Troy Johnson
Publisher and Chief Content Officer at San Diego Magazine
Co-Host at San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour
Husband, dad, writer, person on TV. Owner, @sandiegomag. On-air for @foodnetwork, @bigtennetwork. This is all very strange.
Articles
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2 months ago |
sandiegomagazine.com | Troy Johnson
On this episode of Happy Half Hour, Troy gives us an inside take on what to order at Leu Leu, the new spot from celebrity chef Claudette Zepeda. And the dish you gotta try in central city is the house-cured, house-smoked, hand-cut pastrami from last year’s SDM winner for Best Barbecue in San Diego—Grand Ole BBQ y Asado in North Park.
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2 months ago |
sandiegomagazine.com | Troy Johnson |Nicolle Monico
When Matt Hoyt passed in 2021, the record scratched on San Diego’s culture. His cocktail bar and restaurant, Starlite, was the low-lit cocktail haven for kids who loved odd music and art and graphic novels and time-period clothes and kitschy vinyl concept albums and Japanese documentaries exclusively in black and white. The kind of people who loved the conspiratorial comfort of shadows. I’m making all of these details up based on things the most creative people I know love.
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2 months ago |
sandiegomagazine.com | Troy Johnson |Cole Novak
Finally figured out why the line at Taco Stand is so damn long, and why the tacos are the salve for that very American wound of impatience. Because the chef who basically ran the show at what has been called the “Best Restaurant in North America”—Pujol in Mexico City—is in charge of food. Pancho Ibáñez was essentially the right-hand man for famed Mexican chef Enrique Olvera. De facto chef de cuisine at Pujol for years.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
sandiegomagazine.com | Troy Johnson |Cole Novak
There are few brains like Drew Deckman’s. If he sold footwear he would tell you about the different micro-fibers in the shoe strings and their slight historical significance in the evolution of the human foot. He’s standing at the counter of his newish restaurant in North Park, 31ThirtyOne, holding a vegetable from a local farm.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
sandiegomagazine.com | Troy Johnson |Cole Novak
The Perfect OrderLamb Lollipops | Coconut Milk Poached Seabass | The RitualIf pink’s belief in its own emotional power had waned, it has been fully restored by The Sasan. Mission Hills residents were pitchforkian-vocal about the paint job on the seven-story residential tower. Pepto-Bismol was trotted out yet again and co-slandered. Sure enough, The Sasan does look exactly like a stack of gigantic, bubble gum–colored Pez candies, the spaces between each dangling with deeply green plant life.
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