Custom Eats at A Modo Mio; Plascencia Pop-Up

HILLCREST — Starting tomorrow night and running through December 13, restauranteur and chef Joe Busalacchi is going off book and cooking things up his way at Busalacchi's A Modo Mio. Choose your protein — fish, beef of chicken (a vegetarian option is available too) — and Busalacchi will create a custom, Sicilian-inspired dinner (four courses for $35) just for you. [EaterWire]

NORTH PARK — Monday's are for pop-up's. There are a couple of reservations left (they take walk-in's after 9:30 p.m.) for Javier Plascencia's five course guest gig at El Take It Easy on December 10. The dinner's $45; the dishes are from Plascencia's killer Baja fish house, Erizo. And, you still have a couple days left to reserve a seat for Green Flash Brewing Co.'s first pop-up dinner on Monday, at their Mira Mesa brewery with North Park's The Smoking Goat. [EaterWire]