1-800-745-7876 Dining
World Famous
711 Pacific Beach Drive San Diego, CA 92109 | 858-272-3100Gorgeous Front Row Ocean View in Pacific Beach, better than average food, but The ocean view is the main draw. Seafood & Steaks. They offer brunch, lunch, and dinner. “When this was written” Tuesday nights the bar area offers $1 shrimp tacos when you buy a drink and Wednesday nights $1.50 lobster tacos. Enjoy a bike ride or walk on the boardwalk and stop by for the Carne Asada Eggs Benedict breakfast and a mimosa! Reservations recommended. Valet parking or free validated parking garage in the Promenade, next door.
Buona Forchetta – Authentic Italian in South Park
3001 Beech Street San Diego, CA 92102 | 619-381-4844Wonderful Italian restaurant serving pizza from a traditional wood fired oven. Great outdoor patio. Friendly Italian Speaking staff. Gets busy, may have to wait, but worth it. Walk around the quaint charming neighborhood while waiting. Rated the best Italian restaurant in San Diego… make reservations in advance (days if possible) and enjoy the pizzas, pastas, etc… they use truffle oil on the pizzas.” And they have a Funny surprise in the bathroom. 😛 Sometimes they have a cute little food cart from a delicious Natural Gelato place called Bobboi’s who’s storefront is located in La Jolla, details on that delicious Gelateria, below.
Bobboi Gelato
8008 Girard Ave #150 La Jolla, CA 92037 | 858-999-1362Natural and delicious, amazing unique flavors, best gelato we’ve ever tasted! They have 5 Stars on Yelp, and were recently named #8 in Yelp’s 100 best places to eat in America! This place is TOP!!! (to borrow the Brazilian colloquialism 😉
Hash House a Go Go
3628 Fifth Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 | 619-298-4646This is a 100% breakfast place. The line here is long, but worth the wait. You might consider sharing a plate (Huge portions fill the oversized plates) or plan on taking home a doggy bag (a big one) the food is tasty and the presentation is out of this world. The yum factor is spot on 🙂
The French Gourmet
960 Turquoise St, San Diego, CA 92109 | 858-488-1725This is one of our favorite places to eat, be sure to go here to enjoy fine dining and a nice bakery with fresh baguette, cookies, cakes, quiche, sandwiches and other delicious treats! … a nice place to spend the morning with a delicious mocha or dinner with a bottle of wine.
Extraordinary Desserts
2929 Fifth Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 | 619-294-2132Every time I want to take my wife or children on a special date this is the place to go! They have extraordinary cakes, cookies, and fancy desserts on display in a glass case for you to peruse before ordering. Good wines, a full bar and the food choices are also amazing.
Wow Wow Waffles
3519 30th Street San Diego, CA 92104 | 858-806-0345The best street waffles in town, hands down! The dough comes all the way from Belgium! This unique eatery is located in hip North Park and is open Thursday-Sunday from 8am to 2 or 3pm (check their website for up to date hours). You will usually see a line down the sidewalk, but don’t give up! The gourmet waffle toppings and delicious fresh squeezed lemonades like strawberry basil and liliquoi flavor are worth the wait!
Juniper and Ivy
2228 Kettner Boulevard San Diego, CA 92101 | 619-269-9036Juniper and Ivy offers “refined American food with left coast edge” courtesy of acclaimed chef Richard Blais and Michael Rosen’s Juniper hospitality. Perhaps most recognizable as the winner of Top Chef All-Stars, Blais brings his wildly creative approach to cooking and cuisine to San Diego; backed by an all-star culinary team. Excellent cocktail and wine programs paired with al fresco dining, high energy design and more makes Juniper and Ivy the newest destination restaurant to hit the west coast.
Herb and Wood
2210 Kettner Boulevard San Diego, CA 92101 | 619-955-8495Formerly a warehouse district in what now is called North Little Italy. A combination of high-end dining with a local hipster mood, the strip from Laurel to Ash streets is San Diego’s salute to L.A.’s Melrose Avenue. Celebrity chef Brian Malarkey picked a location next to fellow celeb chef Richard Blais’s Juniper and Ivy, and reworked it as a vast eatery accompanied by a gourmet market. Herb and Wood’s California and Mediterranean cuisine is cooked mostly over a wood fire and with considerable sophistication, a characteristic distinguished by Malarkey’s insistence on house-made everything. “We make our own mozzarella,” he says, spooling a litany of in-house relishes, pickles, breads, and so forth. “We’re going for it.” The bulk of the dishes are smaller plates that can be shared. Flavors run big, though, like the ravishingly succulent seared scallops. A sturdy salad of roasted beets with burrata, walnut pesto, and deluxe Spanish ham is entrancing; equally rich, the smooth pork pâté lounges on slabs of herb-butter–soaked country bread and amid pickled fruit mostarda and other pickled vegetables. Roasted baby carrots are dressed with spicy yogurt and a unique carrot-top pesto. Also, don’t miss the finely perfumed gnocchi with shredded oxtail, sizable meat entrées such as grilled Ibérico pork with cannellini beans, and bone marrow–escargot pizza. For dessert, the handsomely garnished vanilla cream torte is a towering wedge of crepe cake layered with flavored ricotta.
