{"id":247450,"date":"2014-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/kensingtons-happy-haven\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:00:00","slug":"kensingtons-happy-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/kensingtons-happy-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Kensington\u2019s happy \u2018haven\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Dr. Ink<\/span><\/p>\n

Prices on nearly everything at The Haven Pizzeria drop a couple bucks during happy hour \u2014 the beer, wine, salads, appetizers and hand-tossed pizzas of every stripe. The markdowns might not seem like much until you consider that the booze and food don\u2019t bleed your wallet to begin with. <\/p>\n

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The Haven Pizzeria in Kensington (Photo by Dr. Ink<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The modern, stylish eatery is a sister restaurant to the Kensington Caf\u00e9 a block away. Retractable front windows open to the neighborhood\u2019s village core, which can be directly enjoyed from The Haven\u2019s sidewalk patio. Inside are acrylic paintings providing bold splashes of color, plus a small bar in the back and some of the most comfortable booths and banquettes my caboose has experienced in a while. They were custom designed by a local contractor. Overall, the sleek aesthetics lend themselves more to a chic caf\u00e9 rather than a traditional pizzeria. The bar features eight taps of local craft beers that change regularly. A nearby chalkboard lists the choices and their alcohol percentages. Most average $6 before the discount. About 10 different bottled beers are also available. Most are crafts but with a few pedestrian domestics mixed in.\"SDUN<\/a> On this visit, names like Green Flash Road Warrior, Societe Debutante and Coronado Orange Wit were on the tap list. So was one I had never tried before, Belching Beaver Milk Stout. The Vista-based brewery also makes a peanut butter stout that is enjoyably novel, but heavy tasting. Conversely, the frothy milk stout is lighter in the mouth, yet with a classic coffee finish from dark malts. As a food beer, it doesn\u2019t fill you up before The Haven\u2019s pizzas do. Abbey, the informative manager on duty, recommended The Cortez pizza after indicating that I wanted something lively and pretty. It\u2019s a sauce-less \u201cHaven creation\u201d featuring mozzarella and Gorgonzola with candied bacon and diced tomatoes. The crowning elements are avocado slices and fresh arugula. Rich and teasingly sweet, the beer and I took an immediate liking to it. The pies are available in nine and 14-inch sizes. Their crusts are neither thin nor thick, which beckons to the pre-carb-counting days when pizzas provided some good old-fashion chew. I also paired the stout to an order of \u201cDave\u2019s meatballs,\u201d named after a devoted patron who suggested The Haven offer them on the menu. They\u2019re not the biggest in town, but you get five to an order and they\u2019re capped with a sheath of melted mozzarella. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

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The Cortez Pizza (Photo by Dr. Ink)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to the $2 price breaks, beer pitchers are half off on Mondays and the drink discounts run all night on Tuesdays.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dr. Ink Prices on nearly everything at The Haven Pizzeria drop a couple bucks during happy hour \u2014 the beer, wine, salads, appetizers and hand-tossed pizzas of every stripe. The markdowns might not seem like much until you consider that the booze and food don\u2019t bleed your wallet to begin with.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":228777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Kensington\u2019s happy \u2018haven\u2019","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}