📍 Solana Beach, San Diego

Chef Kazuo Kaito's Solana Beach omakase — the North County Michelin sushi counter, 10-seat bar, traditional Edomae format with North Pacific fish. Quiet, intentional, and a proper ...

Chef Jeffrey Strauss's Solana Beach fine-dining institution — across from the Del Mar Racetrack, serving rack of lamb and tableside Caesar to a crowd that has been loyal since the ...

Chef Brad Wise's Solana Beach chophouse — the original Rare Society, a modern steakhouse inside the Cedros Design District with a dry-aged program that made the Trust Restaurant Gr...

Solana Beach's Cedros Design District breakfast anchor — a sun-washed patio, a from-scratch kitchen, and the kind of weekend line that tells you everything. One of North County's d...

Solana Beach's Australian-style brunch café — pink-and-green Cedros Design District patio, açaí bowls and flat whites, and a brand that grew from this Cedros Ave flagship into a mu...

Solana Beach's Tony's Jacal since 1946 — SD County's longest-continuously-running Mexican restaurant, a fountain courtyard patio, and the kind of three-generation family-dinner def...

A Solana Beach in-house butcher shop and steakhouse from the family behind Brandt Beef — a whole-animal butcher operation, an open-kitchen dining room, and one of the more meat-ser...

The original Pizza Port — a Solana Beach brewpub that helped define San Diego craft beer in the '80s. Wood-booth seating, surfer crowd, award-winning house beers, and pizza as the ...

Solana Beach concert venue on Cedros Ave that has been booking live music since 1974. The 600-capacity room draws national touring acts across rock, reggae, hip-hop, and Americana....

A Solana Beach Mexican institution running since 1960 — combo plates, strong margaritas, and a patio crowd that has been coming for three generations. Unpretentious, consistent, an...