📍 College Area, San Diego
3 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 3 Restaurants
The SDSU-adjacent stretch with a late-night Korean BBQ house, a Mediterranean cafe, and a jazz club that draws an older neighborhood crowd
Top 3 in College Area
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Jong Ga House
College Area's 24-hour Korean BBQ — tableside grilling, soondubu jjigae, banchan program, and a College Area crowd that fills the El Cajon Blvd dining room late into the morning. A...
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Aladdin Mediterranean Cafe
College Area's Aladdin Mediterranean Cafe since 1993 — an El Cajon Blvd Middle Eastern kitchen, a full shawarma-and-kebab menu, and a SDSU-adjacent dining room that has been the ca...
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The Jazz Lounge
A nonprofit jazz venue on El Cajon Blvd near SDSU that actually pays its artists — ticket sales go directly to musician fees and community music programming. Live jazz and blues on...
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