Community Magazine

Great presentation, feel and contents.
This is one of the best discount venues in San Diego!!!

My absolute favorite San Diego publication! What’s better then getting great deals and supporting local business? This is the best way to find new restaurants and enjoy yourself, even if you’re on a budget!

By far the best thing to show up in my mailbox! Be sure not to let this magazine get lost in the mix of all the other crappy junk mail! This is the best resource I’ve seen in San Diego offering deals, and at really good restaurants, that you’d never normally get any discount at! Hooray discounts!

This was the first time I have ever had to deal with paying for advertising. It’s never cheap but always necessary to spend company dollars on marketing your business. Since we are a newer company we didn’t know what was going to suit us. The entire team there took great care of us and really made us feel like we were making the right choice. I highly recommend using this magazine for advertising as well as taking advantage of all the great deals! Thanks Everyone at Community Magazine! You all Rock!

If I lived one street West, I’d get the magazine for free. However, people on my street need to pay $ 36 bucks for a subscription.

My wife and I moved to Banker’s Hill a few months ago and have come to love this «magazine». Great coupons to a lot of places we already love and many more new places to check out in the new neighborhood. Thanks!

I love Community Magazine! The 2 for 1 discounts are awesome! I also use it to find new restaurants to try!

The «Downtown» segment of Community Magazine is about 75% responsible for my carrying a second wallet in my purse just for coupons. I absolutely LOVE this quarterly publication and eagerly await the new editions like a child looks forward to Christmas morning. The fact that it’s technically considered junk mail is preposterous to me!
I prefer the coupons for the more fine dining types of places in downtown San Diego, which often involve buy-​1-​entrée-​get-​1-​entrée-​free coupons for lunch or dinner. Most of these types of coupons also require the user to purchase 2 drinks, but a lot of people assume that the drinks have to be alcoholic… not the case! (I mean, they can’t force you to drink alcohol! What if you’re pregnant? Driving?)
Kemo Sabe, Indigo Grill, Rice, Ocean Room, and Chianti are just a few fine dining restaurants that have pretty consistently featured coupons in «Downtown» for the last year-​ish, and I’m looking forward to trying Terra and Currant in the near future because of coupons offered in the latest issuance of «Downtown.»
Thank you, Community Magazine, for allowing me to experience spectacular foods/​restaurants and to get considerably more bang for my buck. I love you dearly!

You can save a lot of money using the coupons in the Community Magazine. My faves are the Indian Buffet coupons for Bombay and anything that involves frozen yogurt. It’s a good way to try new restaurants while getting a slight discount. Some of the coupons aren’t too great since you have to buy a drink but I’ll take what I can get in these cash-​strapped times!

Use this all the time. I am very greatful to the establishments that participate. There are some placs I discovered and have subsequently returned to becasue of their generous coupon offers.
In thes difficult economic times., any bit helps!

I don’t know how or why this magazine started getting delivered to my house, but whatever the reason, I like it. By far the best, single place for coupons for places right around. Even if it isn’t as convenient for you and doesn’t magically get dropped on your doorstep every so often, I suggest you go out and find one of these.

Yes, I pay for my subscription and some tenants in my complex get it for free in the mail, I do not care, I love the magazines and it pays for itself using the coupons.

Nice idea, but inconsistent distribution. Some zip codes are sent the magazines free of charge, others have to pay for the subscription. I would suggest offering the coupons online, like San Diego Magazine does.

Why wouldnt you use this magazine? There are some good restaurants in the magazine that are offering coupons., use them ! The savings are substantial.
If youre on a date, be sly about it and casually slip the coupon in between your credit card or cash.
Now that I think about it, where is that magazine? I havent seen it in a while.

Five stars for the publisher Katherine Black. If you ever get a chance to meet her and fall under the spell of that French accent you can die a happy person.
I like to use the magazine in my personal life b/​c, hey, who doesn’t want a deal.
In my business life with California Cuisine, they have been wonderful.
I’m not the easiest fellow to work with; so when we had to do a photo shoot for the cover last October it took 2 separate shoots at a total of 10h. I think. They, and I mean Katherine, worked it out happily until I was satisfied. And for any business people out there reading this: The magazine was instrumental in introducing the 25 – 40 y.o. demographic to the restaurant.
Cheers

I have to admit, like everyone else, I had been watching my dollars and cents (or is dollars and dollars) when I go out to eat. The Community Magazine is very helpful in checking out and affording some new places around the communities they cover including the areas I normally frequent.
My bad is forgetting to check or bring the magazine with me in the car. Most of the coupons are often for dining in at the restaurant (there are some that let you use it for to go items). Sometimes, you are out and you decide that you want to eat somewhere and you remember that there was a coupon in the Community Magazine you could use.
In today’s technology, I would advocate for the virtual coupon. All you do is sign up with the restaurants listed with a coupon (main database) and if you are around the restaurant and you can use the coupon, they can just cross off your name and then you get the discount. Win win situation with the business getting a database of clients eating at their place and then they can ask for feedback outside of the restaurant.
But I do look forward to getting the Community Magazine in the mail to check out the new places popping up in our Community.
Props to the Community Magazine. But if anyone ever develops anything with my idea, please forward royalties to me so that I can afford eating out more often (again a Win Win situation there!)

Uptown magazine provides you with the opportunity to try out some of the best food in San Diego while saving you money at the same time? Five stars!
Many of the coupons are valid for more than a month, so you can clip them and save them for those nights when you can’t decide on dinner. Just play coupon roulette and get out and try someplace new. It contains restaurant coupons plus deals at other local businesses and is a great resource for smaller local boutiques and such that you might not have found otherwise.

Ah, recession, perhaps depression, and people are finally finding fit to clip coupons. Thrift is in! Downtown/​Uptown Magazine has been sending out their coupon magazine for years. Only to be read in the can by one reviewer, thanks for that. Only to be discarded by most.
Community Magazine, the publisher of Downtown Magazine and Uptown Magazine, strives to get local businesses, especially restaurants, to give out deals in return for advertising.
Community Magazine does an outstanding job. Instead of reading the magazine in the bathroom, or chucking it as soon as you find it in your mailbox, you should hang on to it and use it to plan your next restaurant outing.
The basic idea is half-​off normal prices. The usual requirement for half-​off is an equivalent purchase, be it lunch, breakfast, dinner or brunch. Look at the coupon closely for its terms. Its too bad that you might get only one coupon magazine, and thus not get to go to your favorite half-​price restaurant more than once. I live in a large apartment complex, and the knuckleheads who are my neighbors routinely toss their coupon magazines in the trash. I encourage you to reach for the discarded magazines, as I do, and maximize your savings.
I have saved more than $ 400 at San Diego restaurants in the last year using coupons from Community Magazine. That’s better than sitting on the toilet and tossing the magazine.

This is the best way to enjoy local eateries and such with less money!
They have pricey places in there and I was able to go to Jack’s and Laurel without taking out a loan.
Do not toss this out when it gets to your home — use it!
And let your merchant know that you came by because of the coupon.

I love this magazine, as we love to save a buck or two and use it as a way to be introduced to new restaurants in the area or give us a reason to go to places we have not gone to in a while.
Thanks for this great free resource!