Wiz Khalifa unveils HotBox in San Diego

Rapper Wiz Khalifa has launched Hotbox by Wiz in San Diego

Oct. 15, 2020 6 AM PT

Rapper Wiz Khalifa has teamed up with Nextbite this month to launch HotBox by Wiz, a delivery-only restaurant chain available in San Diego and just six other U.S. cities.

Working from restaurant kitchens in Oceanside, Carmel Mountain Ranch and Mira Mesa, HotBox is offering countywide food delivery via Uber Eats, Postmates, DoorDash and GrubHub.

The comfort food menu features brisket burnt ends, chicken wings, mac ‘n’ cheese, chili, turkey burgers, chicken sandwiches, salads and desserts.

The service is now available only in San Diego, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Denver, Houston and New York City, but new locations will be added in the months to come. Visit hotboxbywiz.com.

Pam Kragen writes about restaurants and dining for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.