📍 La Jolla Shores, San Diego
5 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 5 Restaurants
The quiet beach end of La Jolla, with Italian trattorias, a hotel dining room above the surf, and breakfast cafes a short walk from the Children's Pool
Top 5 in La Jolla Shores
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Sessions Market
Avenida De La Playa's market-plus-café, a block off the sand in La Jolla Shores. Morning coffee for the surf crowd, a chef-driven sandwich and grab-and-go counter through midday, p...
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2
Piatti La Jolla
The Italian neighborhood room a block off La Jolla Shores, where house-made pasta and wood-fired pizza have been the standing order for La Jolla families through several rotations ...
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3
The Shores Restaurant
La Jolla Shores Hotel's beach-level restaurant — literally steps off the sand, the most-directly-ocean-facing dining room in La Jolla Shores, and a seafood menu that reads the Paci...
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4
Caroline's Seaside Cafe
La Jolla Shores' Caroline's — an Avenida De La Playa café with an ocean-view patio, cinnamon-crunch French toast as the morning call, and the kind of Shores breakfast line that run...
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5
Barbarella Restaurant
La Jolla Shores' eclectic neighborhood bistro — open since the 1980s, a dog-friendly patio across from the beach, and a menu that wanders from pasta to paella. A Shores institution...
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