San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour
Hosted by Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant · San Diego Magazine
4.8from 195 ratings
- 551
- Episodes
- 142
- Transcribed
- 195
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 323K
- YouTube views
About San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour
The weekly guide to San Diego's food + drink scene, hosted by award-winning food writer and Food Network host Troy Johnson and San Diego Magazine's culture brain, Jackie Bryant. Field notes and perspectives on restaurants, bars, and chefs—including dishes and drinks you gotta try, restaurant openings and closings, events worth your time, and laugh-cry interviews with chefs, restaurant owners, farmers, brewers, and makers who make San Diego's food + drink scene hum.
- Publisher
- San Diego Magazine
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 21 Jun 2016
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
142 of 551 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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A World-Class Pastry Chef Finds His Place in San Marcos
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He went on to teach at ENSP, which is Alain Ducasa's pastry school, which is roughly the kind of the Juilliard of butter, you know. Then America, he was the opening team at Aria in Vegas, MGM Grand, and then here as executive pastry chef of Park High at Aviara. That's where North County first got a taste of Christophe Ruhl. Los Angeles did what it did and did what it does, and it borrowed him for a little bit. Hotel Bel Air, he ran a pastry program that ranked number five in the world's best pastry programs. Is that true? That's correct. Yeah. The world's 50 best patisseries in the list in 2025, it was number five. along the way he won food network halloween wars holiday wars joined netflix's bake squad and in 2021 became the u.s chocolate master which is the country's top title in competitive chocolate work now we get to the part Where it comes full circle. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour
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- Christophe Rull
- Aaron Browning
- Roddy Browning
- Jonathon Glus
- Grant Oliphant
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 322,715
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 170 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 25 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 93
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Questions about San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour
Who hosts San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour?
Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant host the show. Published by San Diego Magazine.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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