📍 Del Mar, San Diego

Chef William Bradley's Michelin three-star at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar — San Diego's only three-star restaurant and the first in California to earn the top rank outside LA/SF. Ta...

Chef Carl Schroeder's Del Mar farm-to-table flagship — open since 2006, a menu built from daily produce calls to local growers, and a counter-at-the-kitchen option that reads like ...

Mastro's Ocean Club's Del Mar Highlands location — an ocean-view dining room with a piano bar, the seafood tower and butter-cake desserts that are the brand's national signatures, ...

L'Auberge Del Mar's fine-dining flagship — a seaside resort dining room perched above the Del Mar bluffs, a chef's tasting that pulls from SD County growers, and the kind of resort...

Chef-restaurateur Tracy Borkum's Del Mar Italian — Flower Hill Promenade dining room built from reclaimed architectural salvage, a deep wine list, and the Urban Kitchen Group's mos...

Del Mar Plaza's top-floor seafood room — ocean horizon from every seat, a sugar-spice salmon that's been a signature since the '90s, and the kind of patio that makes Del Mar feel l...

Chef Susan Sbicca's Del Mar modern-American since 2002 — a rooftop patio with Del Mar ocean glimpses, a seasonal chef-driven menu, and a Del Mar dining room that locals treat as th...

Del Mar's beachfront American — sand-level windows, mac-nut-crusted mahi, and a Hula Pie dessert that has anchored anniversaries and post-racetrack dinners for decades. One of Nort...

Del Mar's Viewpoint Brewing — a chef-driven brewpub with a patio overlooking the San Dieguito Lagoon, house beer program, and a dining room that gave the Del Mar/Solana Beach corri...

Del Mar's second beachfront fixture, next door to Jake's and pulling the same Pacific into the same window. Casual ocean-view seafood, a patio set on the sand, and a sunset cocktai...