📍 Downtown, San Diego

Inside the 1910 US Grant Hotel — a historic grill room with a century of downtown San Diego business-and-power dining behind it. Mock turtle soup on the menu as the house classic, ...

Chef Brian Malarkey's Asian-American modern concept on the SD waterfront — harbor views, a dining room built around a pan-Asian menu that pulls from Japan, China, Thailand, and Kor...

Roma Norte is a bar and event space on West Harbor Drive in Downtown San Diego, along the waterfront. It pairs a drinks program with a venue built for gatherings near the harbor. T...

Izola Bakery bakes on Island Avenue in Downtown San Diego's East Village, working a small lineup of croissants, wild sourdough, and vanilla knots. The pastry counter rotates specia...

Downtown's Dobson's since 1983 — the mussel bisque en croûte became the SD power-lunch shorthand, the dining room has been a downtown-counsel-and-editor ritual for 40 years, and th...

The Puesto Mexican group's Downtown Gaslamp 3rd-and-J location — crispy-cheese-shell tacos, an agave-focused bar, and a polished casual format that scaled out of the La Jolla origi...

B Street's downtown donut counter, working a same-day-only model on oversized, theatrical creations — Big Poppa Tarts, crème brûlée donuts, Homer Pink in the case while it lasts. T...

Downtown's Kansas City Barbeque since 1984 — the bar where the Top Gun piano scene was filmed, with memorabilia on every wall, a serious Kansas City-style BBQ menu, and a Market St...

Downtown's maritime-themed seafood room with a rooftop deck, named after sailor Spike Africa, with an oyster and raw bar program that stands as one of the Broadway corridor's defin...

A breakfast and brunch restaurant in the East Village area of downtown San Diego. The menu features all-day breakfast and Mexican-inflected morning fare — papas con chorizo, breakf...