“We don’t want to call it a lesbian bar.”

Stefan Chicote, the manager of the latter, says Gossip Grill is just a women’s home base. It’s owned by the folks behind both the gay male mecca Urban Mo’s and its little buddy Baja Betty’s. (By Ray’s Tennis and the Hairem salon do you know where those are?) The menu is winking at you, calling its appetizers “foreplay,” and its steak and salmon dishes, instead of entrees, are “all the way.” Decency (aka our editors) won’t let us print the cocktails’ sex-crazed names.īut the most notable pose Gossip Grill takes is as a lesbian bar that’s not a lesbian bar. Hillcrest, (619)260-8023 The scene: This new Hillcrest restaurant/bar is one giant come-on sprawled in an easily overlooked strip mall.