{"id":282181,"date":"2013-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/diegos-serves-up-a-gourmet-take-on-an-american-favorite\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T07:00:00","slug":"diegos-serves-up-a-gourmet-take-on-an-american-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/diegos-serves-up-a-gourmet-take-on-an-american-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego\u2019s serves up a gourmet take on an American favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Jersey contractor for 20 years who figured he\u2019d open a bar when he moved his wife and three children to San Diego after the economy crashed a couple of years ago ended up in the restaurant business here.
\nGo figure.
\nBut David Caccavo, owner of Diego\u2019s Dogs and Sliders at 4150 Mission Blvd. #113 in the Promenade at Pacific Beach Shopping Center, doesn\u2019t question fate. He revels in it.
\nGetting into the restaurant business in San Diego was a risky proposition. Especially given that Caccavo had no previous experience whatsoever.
\n“I finished building a house for my brother and I thought I might as well stay and do something here,” he said. “I\u2019ve never worked for anybody, and I didn\u2019t want to work for anybody.”
\nA hard worker, Caccavo bent himself to the task of finding the right bar-restaurant to put his mark on. But the search proved tougher than expected.
\n“Some of the ones for sale were really dumpy and needed to be all redone,” Caccavo said, who conducted a thorough search before he finally happened on his current space in the promenade, which was “clean and built-out already.” The space, just around the corner from Tony Roma\u2019s, had previously been, among other things, a submarine sandwich shop.
\nCaccavo\u2019s decision on what kind of food to serve in his new restaurant was just as spontaneous as his decision to move out to the West Coast.
\n“When I came out here, food seemed pretty bland compared to what I was used to,” he said. “I went to get a hot dog, but I couldn\u2019t find a place I liked. They were all hot-dog-on-a-stick or hot-dog stands. They were horrible.”
\nSo what Pacific Beach really needed, Caccavo determined, was a gourmet hot-dog place like the ones they have back east.
\nNow, for the name of this new East Coast-like gourmet hot-dog spot. Diego became the name, but it had nothing to do whatsoever with San Diego.
\n“We named our dog Diego in New Jersey and then we ended up here, so the kids named the restaurant Diego\u2019s Dogs,” said Caccavo, noting the name seemed fitting, if somewhat ironic.
\nNow a picture of Diego, the Caccavo\u2019s 110-pound Rottweiler mix, hangs in Diego\u2019s Dogs.
\nCaccavo promises you won\u2019t find a better \u2014 or more custom-made \u2014 hot dog anywhere else in PB.
\n“I have a Chicago-style dog, a Sonoran dog and a PB fried dog, which has bacon wrapped around it with chili, coleslaw and jalape\u00f1o peppers,” he said, adding bland is now blas\u00e9.
\nGourmet dogs at Diego\u2019s range from $4.50 to $7.
\nAnd what are hot dogs without hamburgers? Not just any hamburgers though, but sliders, created custom, of course, \u00e0 la Caccavo.
\n“The sliders are little 2-ounce burgers,” he said. “It\u2019s all fresh meat. All certified Angus.”
\nSliders, which cost $3 for a single, $5.75 for a duo and $8.50 for a trio, are served up in classic (saut\u00e9ed onions and cheddar cheese), red rock (bacon, crispy fried onions and secret sauce), gobbler (turkey with portabella mushrooms) and spicy Mexi (vegetarian black beans, spices and cheddar) varieties.
\n“People like to mix and match, have a classic with a red rock and a gobbler,” Caccavo said, adding his rosemary fries with garlic and sea salt, as well as his Jersey disco fries \u2014 steak fries with melted mozzarella cheese and gravy \u2014 are both crowd pleasers.
\nFor more information, call (858) 581-3647 or visit www.diegosdogs.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A New Jersey contractor for 20 years who figured he\u2019d open a bar when he moved his wife and three children to San Diego after the economy crashed a couple of years ago ended up in the restaurant business here. Go figure. But David Caccavo, owner of Diego\u2019s Dogs and Sliders at 4150 Mission Blvd. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":282182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Diego\u2019s serves up a gourmet take on an American favorite","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282181","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=282181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}