New Lunch; Social Hour Debuts; Wine Dinner

CARLSBAD— Blue Ocean Robata & Sushi Bar recently began lunch service everyday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. On the menu, there are traditional nigiri and rolls, plus variations made with quinoa and black rice, salads, and bento boxes filled with hoisin-glazed salmon and miso popcorn shrimp. If you can indulge in day-drinking, check out their Far East Ricky, a mix of London dry gin, shiso and cucumber. [EaterWire]

MISSION HILLS— Today, Brooklyn Girl Eatery launches a new social hour that'll run from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday through Friday. Among the food and drink deals are $6 craft cocktails, $5 draft wine, $3 off craft beer, $8 oyster tacos, a dozen raw oysters for $15 and a Margherita pizza for $8. [EaterWire]

BAY PARK— Underground wine club Le Metro will be at Kitchen 4140 on Thursday, June 26 for an all-inclusive, multi-course "Aboveground dinner" paired with Austro-Hungarian wine selections and prepared by chef/owner Kurt Metzger. [EaterWire]

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