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by | October 29, 2026 · 10:38 am

Ramble Room Is the Snider Plaza Brunch You End Up Going Back To

Every neighborhood needs a place you can walk into on a Saturday without a plan. In Snider Plaza, that place is Ramble Room, and brunch is when it feels most like home.

Ramble Room sits on the south end of the plaza at 6565 Hillcrest Ave. It’s Jon Alexis’s restaurant, and if you know his story, it makes sense. He built his name selling fish at TJ’s Seafood, then had a hit with Tex-Mex at Escondido. When he opened Ramble Room in 2023, he went after something simpler: good American food in a room you’d happily visit on a night when you don’t really feel like going out.

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by | January 23, 2017 · 12:52 pm

The Brunch At Top Knot Will Cure All

top-knotby Steven Doyle

Brunch is an important meal which should be considered carefully; one wrong choice and your entire week will need a reset. This was not the case when we recently chose Top Knot, the younger sister restaurant to Uchi, for our brunch of the week.

The experience is one that is serene yet engaging all at once. We expected the food to be first-rate, and of course it was, but the clean lines of the restaurant take on  a different experience with the day streaming through the windows with discretion, the wood invites, and the staff is understanding that perhaps wrong choices might have been made the night before and are eager to ease any suffering.   Continue reading →

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